Amerindian integration into Guyanese society varies by geography, culture, and economic position.

Evidence

Amerindians occupy a much more ambiguous position in Guyanese nationalist space when compared with the Karifuna in Dominica. Their integration into Creole society varies with geographic location in the country. Most Amerindians have been converted to Christianity. Amerindian immersion into Creole society and into national institutions is not uniform among the various groups and is accompanied by varying degrees of cultural hybridity. This is related to the uneven pattern of economic integration of various Amerindian communities into the Guyanese political economy. Biogenetic immersion, related to practices of miscegenation, also varies with geographic location and cultural and economic integration. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3269

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Du Boisian double-consciousness and hybridity debates from postcolonial theory (Bhabha, Hall).