A color-based white-black polarity replaced the Europe-Africa poles in Caribbean racial mapping.

Evidence

A white-black polarity based on color has replaced Europe and Africa at opposite ends of the Creole continuum. This has been particularly the case with the incorporation into Creole society of new diasporic communities with origins in Asia and the Middle East, and of the indigenous population of the region. “Blackness,” however, continues, by and large, to retain its association with Africa in an ongoing counterdiscourse to Creole construction. This is quite evident in the regional spread of a Rastafarian movement that originated in Jamaica (see Chevannes, 1995), and in the Orisha religious movement in Trinidad (see Houk, 1993). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3250