A construção da cultura afro-descendente de Trinidad a partir da chegada de imigrantes indianos (1845 – 1875)
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2008
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This article discusses the formation of the African descendant culture of Trinidad, in the first
decades after the British Slave Emancipation Act of 1833. The center of interest of this study
lies on the farmers’ choice, from 1845, in replacing former slave workers for “East Indian
indenteds”. Albeit the quantity of Indian immigrants on that island was minimal comparing to
the African descendant population, the latter considered the Indian immigrants as the main
obstacle for their social ascension. Thus, a scenery is shaped in which such populations
coexisted under a tense atmosphere involving all kinds of stereotypes, dispersion policies, and
wars of interest from local gazettes that play in defense of each involved group. In face of this
impacting situation, the African descendant populations from Trinidad played a series of
symbolical resources of their cultures to obtain autonomy and to subvert the discursive order
of the elite.
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Imigração, Indianos, Afro-descendentes, Trinidad colonial, Immigration, Indians, African descendants, Colonial Trinidad
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ARAÚJO, Alexandre Martins de. A construção da cultura afro-descendente de Trinidad a partir da chegada de imigrantes indianos (1845 – 1875). Revista Ágora, Vitória, n. 7, p. 1-26, 2008.