Reproducing Domination
Reproducing Domination
On the Caribbean Postcolonial State
Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State collects thirteen key essays on the Caribbean by Percy C. Hintzen, the foremost political sociologist in Anglophone Caribbean studies. For the past forty years, Hintzen has been one of the most articulate and discerning critics of the postcolonial state in Caribbean scholarship, making seminal contributions to the study of Caribbean politics, sociology, political economy, and diaspora studies. His work on the postcolonial elites in the region, first given full articulation in his book The Costs of Regime Survival: Racial Mobilization, Elite Domination, and Control of the State in Guyana and Trinidad, is unparalleled.
Reproducing Domination contains some of Hintzen’s most important Caribbean essays over a twenty-five-year period, from 1995 to the present. These works have broadened and deepened his earlier work in The Costs of Regime Survival to encompass the entire Anglophone Caribbean; interrogated the formation and consolidation of the postcolonial Anglophone Caribbean state; and theorized the role of race and ethnicity in Anglophone Caribbean politics. Given the recent global resurgence of interest in elite ownership patterns and their relationship to power and governance, Hintzen’s work assumes even more resonance beyond the shores of the Caribbean. This groundbreaking volume serves as an important guide for those concerned with tracing the consolidation of power in the new elite that emerged following flag independence in the 1960s.
Percy Hintzen is one of the Caribbean’s leading scholars of the past forty years. This collection of Hintzen’s essays constitutes a major contribution to the fields of political sociology and Caribbean studies.
Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State is a long-overdue, focused collection of work from a leading Caribbean sociologist.
Percy C. Hintzen is currently professor of global and sociocultural studies at Florida International University and professor emeritus of African American studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a postcolonial scholar with a focus on Caribbean political economy, postcolonial studies, and the African diaspora.
Charisse Burden-Stelly (Editor)
Charisse Burden-Stelly is the 2020-2022 visiting scholar in the Race and Capitalism Project at the University of Chicago. She is currently assistant professor of Africana studies and political science at Carleton College. A scholar of critical Black studies, political theory, political economy, and intellectual history, she is coauthor, with Gerald Horne, of W. E. B. Du Bois: A Life in American History.
Aaron Kamugisha (Editor)
Aaron Kamugisha is Ruth Simmons Professor of Africana Studies at Smith College. He is editor of six essay collections and five special issues of journals on Caribbean and Africana thought and author of Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Freedom.
