Race, Power and Social Segmentation in Colonial Society: Guyana After Slavery, 1838�1891 (Routledge Library Editions: Colonialism and Imperialism)

Summary

Race, Power and Social Segmentation in Colonial Society (1987) studies Guyanese society after slavery and specifically examines the area of social classes and ethnic groups. It also focuses on the theoretical issues in the debate on pluralism versus stratification and provides a detailed interdisciplinary analysis of the process of structural change in a composite colonial society over a significantly long historical period – over half a century.