West Indian

A West Indian is a native or inhabitant of the West Indies (the Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago). For more than 100 years the words West Indian specifically described natives of the West Indies, but by 1661 Europeans had begun to use it also to describe the descendants of European colonists who stayed in the West Indies. Some West Indian people reserve this term for citizens or natives of the British West Indies.

See also

  • Caribbean (ethnicity)
  • History of colonialism
  • Spanish colonization of the Americas
  • West Indies cricket team
  • West Indian American
  • References

    Further reading

  • Olwig, K. F. (1999). "The burden of heritage: Claiming a place for a West Indian culture". American Ethnologist 26 (2): 370–388. doi:10.1525/ae.1999.26.2.370. 
  • Richards, B. N. (2013). "Ethnic identity on display: West Indian youth and the creation of ethnic boundaries in high school". Ethnic and Racial Studies: 1–10. doi:10.1080/01419870.2012.748212. 
  • Robinson-Walcott, K. (2003). "Claiming an Identity We Thought They Despised: Contemporary White West Indian Writers and Their Negotiation of Race". Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 7 (2): 93–26. doi:10.1353/smx.2003.0023. 
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