Education and training could override color in the Caribbean class hierarchy.

Evidence

Coloreds became the quintessential symbol of Creole society. In combination, gradations of color and the acquisition of cultural capital, particularly education and training, determined location in the social hierarchy of Creole society. As a bridging category, the boundaries between the coloreds, on the one hand, and white Creoles and Afro-Creoles on the other, were ill defined. Africans with cultural capital were able to move up in the hierarchy, while coloreds without were propelled downward. There was a similar blurring of distinctions between the coloreds and Creole whites. Coloreds with cultural and economic capital became absorbed into the social category of the latter. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3224 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Cultural capital could override color in Caribbean racial hierarchy placement — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3224; Caribbean nationalism inverted racial hierarchy by making cultural capital outrank whiteness. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3229; Jamaica’s social order was a finely graded pigmentocracy of caste and class (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Cultural capital could override color in Caribbean racial hierarchy placement #corroborates (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3224
• Color becomes the judgment criterion regardless of education or attainment #contradicts (0.93)