Title: TRANSFORMING CARIBBEAN AND CANADIAN IDENTITY
Abstract:Abstract This paper discusses the attempts by peoples of Caribbean origin resident in Toronto, Canada, to use a version of the transplanted Trinidad Carnival as a mechanism for creating an ethnic iden...Abstract This paper discusses the attempts by peoples of Caribbean origin resident in Toronto, Canada, to use a version of the transplanted Trinidad Carnival as a mechanism for creating an ethnic identity in a multicultural metropolitan society. The contesting claims to the “ownership” of this cultural product forms the backdrop against which a younger generation of Canadian-born children of Caribbean immigrants also work out their own relationship to Canadian society.Read More
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-09-19
Language: en
Type: article
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