This seminar examines race, ethnicity, class and gender as significant variables affecting people’s lives in the Anglophone Caribbean. Categories of race, ethnicity, class and gender are used not only to create distinctions among human beings but they also justify the unequal distribution of wealth, resources, power and prestige among members of society and thus create inequalities. In this course, we seek to understand social inequalities in the Anglophone Caribbean and the consequences of those inequities on human experiences. Avoiding simplistic definitions of race, ethnicity, class and gender, we examine how these categories are socially constructed, contested, and negotiated among Caribbean peoples. We begin by examining race, ethnicity, class, and gender as social constructs. We then focus attention on how race, ethnicity, class and gender intersect in the Caribbean shaping societies and individual experiences in complex ways. Finally we examine how Afro-Caribbeans construct, interpret and negotiate racial, ethnic, class, and gender inequalities in their lives. |
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