Purity claims exclude long-intermixed Carib descendants from Creole nationalism

Evidence

Thus, whiteness, however tainted, retained its valorized position in Creole nationalist construction. The right of white Creoles to social and economic privilege and preference was retained, and even enhanced, with the departure of the colonial power. In many instances, white Creoles became international brokers in the new regime of sovereignty. At the same time, their representation as cultural and racial hybrids, and their organic claims to the territory protected their social and economic privilege in the crucible of anticolonial nationalism. Otherwise, nationalism’s challenge to white privilege might have become the basis for expulsion. Instead, their “whiteness” was rendered invisible in the face of a nationalist rejection of white supremacy. More importantly, white creolization became the mechanism for the nonproblematization of whiteness. It legitimized a postcolonial version of racial capitalism. This explains the continued domination of whites in the private sector of the postcolonial Caribbean despite nationalism’s racial challenge to white supremacy. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3233 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Amalgamation has become integral to the historical reproduction of Creole identity. It calls for an abnegation of purity through sexual and cultural immersion. The Creole space “swallows everything up… remain[ing] permanently in motion, pushing us headlong in a movement of diversity, of change and exchange” (Taylor, 1989:142). “Blending and impurity” stand as its fundamental values (Taylor, 1989:137). With the exception of the Syrians and Lebanese whose cultural forms disappeared with creolization, immersion has acted, historically, to modify the African-European continuum in the Anglophone Caribbean. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3241 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: White Creoles gained privilege under nationalism by claiming hybrid belonging; Dominican nationalism authenticates indigenous descent but rejects African ancestry claims — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3211; Louverture redefined creole to include Africans but only to restrict their rights — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 884 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• White Creoles gained privilege under nationalism by claiming hybrid belonging #complicates (0.78)
• White creole privilege survived decolonization through hybridity discourse rather than open racism #complicates (0.76) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3233
• Creole identity is founded on blending and impurity, not whiteness #complicates (0.74) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3241
• Greater hybrid integration makes Guyanese Amerindians less inclined to reject Creole nationalism. #complicates (0.73) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3270
• Being excluded from Creole society freed some immigrant groups from its color hierarchy. #complicates (0.72)