Chapter 1 Introduction: National Boundaries/Transnational Identities Part 2 Part I: Multi Culturalism and Ethnicity: Contested Ownership of National Culture Chapter 3 Miscegenation as a Metaphor for Nation Building: The 'Douglarisation' Controversy in Trinidad and Tobago Chapter 4 The Chinese in Thailand: Ethnicity and Power Chapter 5 To Be French: Franco-Maghrebians and the Commission de la Nationalite Chapter 6 Spectacular Imaginings: Performing Community in Guatemala Part 7 Part II: Multiculturalism and Race: Alternative Constructions of Black and White Chapter 8 Brazil: Interactions and Conflicts in a Multicultural Society Chapter 9 Songs in a Strange Land: Race, Dual Consciousness, and the Narrative of African-American Identity in the United States Chapter 10 Letting the Side Down: Personal Reflections on Colonial and Independent Kenya Chapter 11 Race in the Formation of Cuban National and Cultural Identity Part 12 Part III: Multiculturalism and Politics: Constitutional Approaches to Inequality Chapter 13 The Zimbabwe Constitution: Race, Land Reform and Social Justice Chapter 14 Bosnia: Two Days in November Chapter 15 The Crisis of the Mexican State and the Nation: Chiapas as Metaphor Chapter 16 China's Ethnicities: State Ideology and Policy in Historical Perspective Chapter 17 Official Multiculturalism in Canada: Between Virtue and Politics

The article examines a Trimdadian calypso and its reception as a case study to weigh the discourses of hybridity, creolisation, and a local variant, 'douglarisation'. In cultural studies discourse, 'creolisation' is often used synonymously with hybridization. However, it is a different metaphor, with a different genealogy, and is much more grounded in specific histories and places, namely the New World sites of plantation slavery. In Trinidad, the pejorative term 'dougla' sigmfies the offspring of a union between persons of African and Indian ancestry, while 'douglarisation' denotes the contested processes of Afro- and Indo-Trinidadian interculturation. 'Douglarisation' can be read as a particular instance of both hybridity and creolisation, but with very different implications. We argue that hybridity and creolisation advance different political agendas, the former attentive to multiple roots and the latter to new connections.

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