Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State
collects thirteen key essays on the Caribbean by Percy C. Hintzen,
the foremost political sociologist in Anglophone Caribbean studies.
For the past thirty years, Hintzen has been one of the most
articulate and discerning critics of the postcolonial state in
Caribbean scholarship, making seminal contributions to the study of
Caribbean politics, sociology, political economy, and diaspora
studies. His work on the postcolonial elites in the region, first
given full articulation in his book The Costs of Regime Survival:
Racial Mobilization, Elite Domination, and Control of the State in
Guyana and Trinidad, is unparalleled.
Reproducing
Domination contains some of Hintzen’s most important Caribbean
essays over a twenty-five-year period, from 1995 to the present.
These works have broadened and deepened his earlier work in The Costs
of Regime Survival to encompass the entire Anglophone Caribbean;
interrogated the formation and consolidation of the postcolonial
Anglophone Caribbean state; and theorized the role of race and
ethnicity in Anglophone Caribbean politics. Given the recent global
resurgence of interest in elite ownership patterns and their
relationship to power and governance, Hintzen’s work assumes even
more resonance beyond the shores of the Caribbean. This
groundbreaking volume serves as an important guide for those
concerned with tracing the consolidation of power in the new elite
that emerged following flag independence in the 1960s.