The Newer Caribbean: Decolonization, Democracy, and Development

The ongoing process of Caribbean nation-building and the problems of the post-independence period form the focus of this important collection of essays. Growing out of the landmark “Decolonization, Democ¬racy, and Development in the Caribbean” seminars, held in New York and Jamaica, these sixteen newly edited studies offer fresh insights into the political, social, and economic challenges now faced by Jamaica, Antigua, Guyana, and Trinidad-Tobago, as well as their close neighbors. The essays in Part 1 focus on the process of decolonization in the English-speaking Caribbean, where a constitutional transition to nationhood, rather than a revolutionary or departmentalized route, has been the hallmark of change. Part 2 examines Caribbean relations with the international community, paying particular attention to the course of affairs with Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela, as well as with the United States and the Soviet Union. The discussions that comprise Part 3 have as their focus the changes that have taken place in the social and economic structure of Caribbean society during the modern postcolonial era. A diversity of viewpoints and a wealth of new information make for a timely and invaluable assessment of the Caribbean community as it faces a perplexing future. The first and only collection of its kind, The Newer Caribbean includes contributions by Paul Ashley, Rubén Berríos Martínez, George Danns, Trevor Farrell, J. E. Green, Paget Henry, Irving Louis Horowitz, Vaughan Lewis, Luis Maira, Nita Rous Manitzas, Carl Parris, Vincent Richards, Carl Stone, and Francisco Thoumi.