Reading the Dougla Body: Mixed-race, Post-race, and Other Narratives of What it Means to be Mixed in Trinidad

Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-31

  England, Sarah ^a  

^a SOKA UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural pluralism; Dougla; Indo Trinidadian; Afro Trinidadian; Multiracial; Race mixing; Trinidad

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249138292     PISSN: 17442222     EISSN: 17442230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17442220701865820     Document Type: Article

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