Chapter One: Becoming Native Caymanian
Chapter Two: The More Things Change: The Stubborn Decline of
Racialism During Immediate Post-Emancipation
Chapter Three: And Then There was Light: The Shaping Conditions of
a Distinct National-Cultural Caymanian Identity and its Subsequent
Traditionalisms
Chapter Four: Bringing Traditionalist Ideas and Conceptions to Bear
on a Cultural Caymanian Identity Beset by Material Hardship
Chapter Five: The Sustenance of Caymanian Identity in Geographical
Displacement: A Case Study Approach
Chapter Six: Outgrowing the Surrogate Mother: Accounting for the
Dramatic Shift in Caymanian Perceptions toward Jamaica and
Jamaicans During the Federation Era
Chapter Seven: Proliferating Caymanianness: Accounting for the
Factors that Lead to Division within Caymanian Nationality
Chapter Eight: Theory in Practice: Bringing the Legitimacy of
Carnival and the Carnivalesque to Bear on Fractured Rhetorical
Caymanian Culture
Conclusion: Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Christopher Williams is assistant professor of history, English, and philosophy at the University College of the Cayman Islands.
This book is an insightful study of identity formation, belonging,
and indigeneity in the Cayman Islands, a small British dependency
in the Caribbean, which has seen high levels of in-migration in
recent decades. Its strength is its ‘insider’ perspective, and its
presentation of testimonies from a very wide range of present-day
natives and residents of these islands.
*Bridget Brereton, Emerita Professor of History, University of the
West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago*
The Cayman Islands, known primarily for tourism and financial
services, have thus far attracted little scholarly attention, but,
as Christopher Williams shows in this insightful study, they are an
ideal case study for inquiries into the effects of globalization
and multicultural identity formation. Employing methodologies drawn
from history, cultural studies, and sociology, Christopher
Williams's lucidly written work shows us the highly contested
nature of Caymanian history, and communal and individual identity;
just as importantly, he demonstrates that developments in the
Caymans offer important lessons for the study of the entire
Caribbean region.
*Natalie Zacek, University of Manchester*
In this impressive study, Williams provides an extensive,
enriching, and persuasive account of the encounters and impact of
globalization on contemporary Caymanian culture and identity. The
breadth of this book’s analysis, scope of enquiry, and audacity of
its critique will undoubtedly reshape our understanding, and
perhaps influence the direction of emerging scholarship on the
Caymanian identity.
*Abou Jeng, Centre for Research, Development and Social Justice
Advocacy*
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