Indigenous autonomy struggles in the Caribbean respond to symbolic exclusion despite structural economic integration.

Evidence

The struggle represents a local manifestation of a developing organization of the indigenous in Latin America and the Caribbean. It has emerged as a response to colonial and postcolonial practices of symbolic exclusion. Such practices have been maintained under conditions of structural integration of the Karifuna population into the Dominican political economy. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3268