Analyzes the relationship between conceptions of racial and ethnic identity and the ways social stratification and inequality are reproduced and experienced in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.

About the Series ix
Acknowledgments xi
1. “This Rainbow Has Teeth” 1
2. A “Crazyquilt Society” 27
3. Locations and Dislocations 61
4. The Problem of Simi-Dimi 101
5. Carving Knowledge from Ways of Knowing 121
6. “No Bhakti, Only Gyan” 159
7. “You Get Honor for Your Knowledge” 185
8. Mixing Metaphors 221
Notes 233
Works Cited 241
Index 253