Autor: Amar Nahab

Amar Wahab is currently a Lecturer in Sociology at The University of the West Indies (St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago). His research in historical sociology focuses on systems of slavery and indentureship in the colonial Caribbean and their roles in the making of Western liberalism. He is the author of Colonial Inventions: Landscape, Power and Representation in Nineteenth-Century Trinidad (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010). Cecily Jones is Associate Professor in Sociology, University of Warwick (UK) and former Director of the Centre for Caribbean Studies at the same institution. Her research interests primarily address issues of race, gender and childhood within colonial and postcolonial societies. She is the author of Engendering Whiteness: White Women and Colonialism in Barbados and North Carolina, 1627–1865 (Manchester University Press, 2007) and co-editor with (David Dabydeen and John Gilmore) of the critically acclaimed Oxford Companion to Black British History (Oxford University Press, 2007, 2009, 2010).