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Loading... Order and Place in a Colonial City: Patterns of Struggle and Resistance in Georgetown, British Guiana, 1889-1924by Juanita De Barros
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The elites saw the city's markets and streets as dirty, filled with dangerous non-white crowds. The poor saw these public places as sites of play and livelihood. De Barros shows how these opposing views set the stage for a series of petty disputes and large-scale riots. The "little traditions" of Georgetown's multi-racial and multi-ethnic urban poor helped create a creole view of public spaces, articulated in the course of struggle. By uncovering the popular cultural patterns that underlay much of this unrest, De Barros demonstrates both their place within a larger West Indian cultural paradigm and the emergence of a peculiarly Guianese ritual of protest. No library descriptions found. |
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![]() GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)988.1History and Geography South America French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname GuyanaLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |