Society and Politics in the Caribbean by Colin Clarke (eds.)

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The most advanced economies are those of Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic (all Spanish-speaking), plus Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and some of the British dependencies, Martinique and Guadeloupe (French) and the Netherlands Antilles. Most are democratic states or incorporated units, though Venezuela and the Dominican Republic are transitional from authoritarian pasts - as is Cuba, which is socialist. At the other extreme of development, the ex-British Windwards and Leewards are poor but democratic; Haiti is poor but 20 Introduction autocratic; Guyana and Suriname are poor and formerly socialist, though both seem to be liberalizing, largely for economic reasons.

Each is recognized by the contributors as a segmented plurality, but while it is possible to extrapolate the alignments between race and party in Trinidad, it is not feasible to do so in Belize. Finally, it is important to bear in mind that class, culture and race (or colour) are ultimately society-specific in their significance. Even the cultural distinctions so typical of Jamaica - such as Creole speech versus accented but standard English - are muted in the Leeward Islands; class in Trinidad, because of its greater economic diversification, is much more complex than in, say, Belize; and to be black is a very different experience in tiny Barbuda compared to Haiti or Cuba.

Heuman, Between Black and White: Race, Politics and the Free Coloreds in Jamaica, /792-1865 (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1981). 33. The crucial role of slaves in the maintenance of the sugar industries of Cuba and Puerto Rico, as their numbers declined in the run up to emancipation, is discussed thoroughly in Rebecca J. Scott, Slave Emancipation in Cuba: the Transition to Free Labour, 1860-1899 (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1985) and Dietz, op. cit. 34. H. 182.

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