Lexington Books
Pages: 258
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7391-1686-9 • Paperback • August 2007 • $57.99 • (£45.00)
Sara Abraham is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Toronto Mississauga.
Chapter 1 Introduction: Types of Multiracialism
Chapter 2 Plantations, Widespread Labour Rebellions and Popular Multiracialism
Chapter 3 Nationalist Multiracial Unity, Its Breakup, and the Rise of the Party System
Chapter 4 "It was Going So Good": Solidaristic Multiracial Unity in the 60s, 70s, & 80s
Chapter 5 The 1986 National Alliance or Strategic Multiracialism
Chapter 6 Tales from the Streets and Fields
Chapter 7 Concluding Reflections, Ongoing Struggles
Abraham draws readers into a mind-set away from a focus on just the race or ethnicity of the participants in Trinidadian and Guyanese life, and toward their social placement as well. Recommended.
— Choice Reviews
Labour and the Multiracial Project is an ambitious and novel approach to the issues that have plagued the political, social, and cultural development of Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana throughout most of their modern histories.
— New West Indian Guide