Deepest Dye: Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World

by Aisha Khan

Book Overview

How colonial categories of race and religion together created identities and hierarchies that today are vehicles for multicultural nationalism and social critique in the Caribbean and its diasporas.

When the British Empire abolished slavery, Caribbean sugar plantation owners faced a labor shortage. To solve the problem, they imported indentured "coolie" laborers, Hindus and a minority Muslim population from the Indian subcontinent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674987829
• ISBN13: 9780674987821
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 8.6"