Publisher's Synopsis
Across the Dark Waters presents fresh insights and new research in the area of race and gender relations, Indo/African cross-cultural accommodation and Indo-Caribbean history.;The book reflects a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of East Indians in the Caribbean. The essays examine the process of their acculturation and the personal and inter-ethnic conflicts which arose in a situation where disparate peoples were thrown together under tight plantation discipline. Nineteenth and twentieth-century developments are covered, allowing an evaluation of the contemporary situation.;The contributors from the Caribbean, North America and Europe bring together in Across the Dark Waters their research work on these important topics.
