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DOI:10.1080/00086495.2006.11672284 - Corpus ID: 141410033
@article{Roopnarine2006IndoCaribbeanSI, title={Indo-Caribbean Social Identity}, author={Lomarsh Roopnarine}, journal={Caribbean Quarterly}, year={2006}, volume={52}, pages={1 - 11}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:141410033}}- Lomarsh Roopnarine
- Published 1 March 2006
- Sociology, History
- Caribbean Quarterly
This article examines the social identity of Indo-Caribbean people. It recognizes that over the last century, Indo-Caribbean people have gradually become creolized in a predominantly African Caribbean. Yet, this represents only one small aspect of Indo-Caribbean social identity. The prevailing view is that Indo-Caribbean people have developed an identity that sets them apart from other ethnic groups in the Caribbean. Indo-Caribbean social identity can be conceptualized at four levels:ethno…
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