Caribbean white Creole populations varied by plantation production conditions

Evidence

The differences above are reflected in different constructions of creolite. Quite important are the visibility and significance of white Creole representations and practices. Throughout the Caribbean, territorial differences have emerged in the persistence and size of this white Creole population. These have been in response to changes in the technical and social conditions of plantation production over time. The Barbadian example is located at one extreme, where the merchant/plantocracy became highly, even though differentially, amalgamated into the socialized space of Creole society. In Guyana, Creole whites disappeared as a social category, to be replaced by absentee owners based primarily in Britain. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3222

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the plantation-economy literature on Caribbean social structure and to discussions of absentee landlordism as a distinct colonial mode.