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From: Ernest Wiltshire <>
Subject: Re: Eric Williams on race & colour
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 09:30:19 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <200108311451.f7VEpUI31329@lists2.rootsweb.com>


Many thanks to you John for pointing out the Eric Williams
reference. I have not read the book, but it is clearly
relevant and I shall try to find it through the local
public and university libraries.
I am not sure I fully agree with what Williams states to be
the case for the Caribbean: he may have generalized too
much, although I tend to use Barbados as my starting point,
and Barbados is usally the exception to everything in the
Caribbean! But I obviously have to do some more reading and
then see if I can get my thoughts organized and on to
paper!

> From: "John Weiss" <>
> Subject: Re: The "race" debate etc.
> In this context it is worth noting what Eric Williams
> said in his 'Negro in the Caribbean', written in 1941
for an American audience: << If in the United States one
drop of Negro blood makes a man a Negro, in the islands one
is white or not according to the color of one's skin.

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