Hybridity rhetoric in the Caribbean produced purity-based nationalist conflicts

Evidence

Different constructions of creolite have produced and reinforced virulent forms of territorial nationalisms. These have foreclosed opportunities for regional integration. Representations and practices of racial and cultural purity have prevailed in the face of hybridity. They have been at the root of endemic racial conflict in the region. Conceptualizations of white purity continue to reinforce and legitimize a system of globalized dependency. Creole nationalism continues to hide the pervasive and overarching presence of domestic racial capitalism. The way out of these dilemmas points in the direction of a new narrative of liberation to displace the representations and practices of the repressive cultural order of creolite. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3277

Categorization

• XREF: Challenges the celebratory reading of creolization as inherently liberatory; connects to anti-essentialist critiques of hybridity in Gilroy and Hall.
• SEED: Angle for an essay: how celebration of hybrid identity can itself become a discourse masking racial capitalism — the Caribbean as test case.