Ian Randle Publishers: 56 books

This book traces the creation of the ethnic groups in the nineteenth century and its ultimate impact on the colony's political constituencies in the run-up to independence. The construction of the nation in the postcolonial period is approached through an analysis of cricket, trade unions and women...

Hinduism is the second largest socio-religious denomination in Trinidad and Tobago, yet much of the fundamental dimensions of Trinidad Hinduism remain undocumented and a virtual enigma for most of the non-Hindu population. In The Ramayana Tradition and Socio-Religious Change in Trinidad, 1917−1990,...

Described as a Renaissance man of the twenty-first century, Sir George Alleyne, Chancellor of the University of the West Indies and Director Emeritus of the Pan American Health Organization, is one of the Caribbean's finest Scholars. As a physician, scientist and public health leader, Sir George has...

"When 14 year old Natasha discovers that her best friend Jasmine has contracted AIDS she is devastated and confused. She cannot understand how someone so young and innocent could have contracted such a deadly disease, until her thoughts turn toward Jasmine’s popular boyfriend, Mike. It comes...

Between Two Grammars: Research and Practice for Language Learning and Teaching in a Creole-speaking Environment builds on earlier works in the field of language learning and teaching and brings new ideas about language teaching in a Creole-speaking environment. Using Jamaica as the example, the history...

Fair-skinned Beverley is ridiculed in Jamaica but has the last laugh when she returns as the wife of a diplomat. Kishwana is from the inner city but is the beneficiary of uptown benevolence. Lily’s life changes when her boyfriend leaves her for a white woman. Rosa gets a dream that she should take...

Leon had only bought his Wasp cycle because cycling had been the new craze and all his friends had been taking it up. Two years later however, it was his prized possession and his whole ambition lay on the cycle track. He was consumed, and cycling had become the most precious thing to him. ...

Sylvia Wynter’s work is distinctively Caribbean. From her exciting and rigorous interventions of ‘folk culture’ and its profound meaning for the symbolic universe of Caribbean reality, creative writing and the nature of Caribbean culture, to her present genealogical critique of Western humanism,...

They were outcasts, the forgotten boys of Trinidad and Tobago imprisoned for violent crimes including armed robbery and murder. They had nothing left but a wish for a better life, the feeling that they would need an education to achieve their goals, and a desperate desire to find an English teacher....

Studies of the experiences of Caribbean childhood have, in the past, been undertaken almost exclusively from the perspective of adults rather than that of the children themselves. In this work, Christine Barrow departs from that tradition by focusing on the views of children as participants. The result...

Historically, women have been under-represented in politics. Patriarchal political parties, debilitating customs and discriminatory selection processes, and obstructionist attitudes have generally contributed to the inability of women to enter mainstream political life in a significant way. In Women...

Using Trinidad and Tobago as the model, this book offers an overview of the constitutional reform process in the Commonwealth Caribbean. In these young, post-colonial democracies, where party politics and power politics have had a negative impact on the process of democratic reform, the authors review...

Caribbean Reasonings: M.G. Smith - Social Theory and Anthropology in the Caribbean and Beyond invites readers to explore the life and work of Michael Garfield Smith, one of the most prolific Caribbean thinkers of the post-war era. M.G., as he was knwon, is credited with having made significant contributions...

Diverse conceptions of India, as homeland, were central to the shaping of Indo-Guyanese identity. An imagined India − part fact, part fantasy − has continually woven into the Indo-Guyanese consciousness a rich, elevating construction of self: an antidote to the deflating image of the ‘coolie’...