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In an age of rampant xenophobia and the nativist imperative to undo globalization for a return to a bygone, ""purer"" age, can patently modern identities indefinitely sustain their messages of inclusion and equality? This volume serves to answer this and other pressing existential questions by tracing the development of the Caymanian people from the colonial era into our modern globalized, multicultural age. The emergence of Caymanian nationalism is extensively analyzed and confirmed as a phenomenon that was preceded by fragmented Caymanian identities informed by issues of race and class. Despite this, the native Caymanian people were able to successfully jettison their race-thinking, and in so doing, began to see themselves as members of a singular nationality. This notion of national and cultural solidarity, as this book details, has become a vexing issue, and is now being duly tested given the astonishing numbers of immigrants in Cayman, many of whom are keen to become Caymanians themselves.

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Christopher A. Williams is the Chair of the Social Sciences Department at the University College of the Cayman Islands. He lectures in the areas of history, sociology, and cultural studies, and has published extensively on the history and sociology of the Caribbean, notably the Cayman Islands. He is the author of the groundbreaking text Defining the Caymanian Identity: The Effects of Globalization, Economics, and Xenophobia on Caymanian Culture (2015). He was educated at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad, the University of Manchester, and the University of Warwick, UK.

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