List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations

Introduction
Ian Bethell-Bennett and Jessica Minnis

Part I: Establishing Identity in Place and Space

Chapter 1. Puerto Rico’s Path Towards More Inclusive Notions of Identity and Social Justice: Notes from About Emerging Voices and Trends in the Twenty-First-Century Electoral Scene
Raymond Laureano-Ortiz

Chapter 2. The Impact of Colonialism on Identity, Education and Justice in St. Martin
Rhoda Arrindell

Chapter 3. ‘Raizality’ and the Meaning of ‘Being Home
Morgane Le Guyader

Chapter 4. Moving to the ‘Other’ Space: Reimagining Indo-Trinidadian Women’s Identity in Ramabai Espinet’s The Swinging Bridge
Mayuri Deka

Part II: Gender (In)Justices in Place and Space

Chapter 5. So You Went to Convent: Education, Social Mobility and Civil Society
Alison McLetchie

Chapter 6. ‘Small Up in the Space Lady!’ Gender, Space, Place and the Caribbean Catholic Church
Anna Kasafi Perkins

Chapter 7. Unmasking the Culture of Ignorance in The Bahamas
Natino Thompson

Chapter 8. Home, Space, Place, Violence, Gender: Does Violence Rest in Places?
Ian Bethell-Bennett

Part III: Environmental Dynamics in Place and Space

Chapter 9. Caribbean Falling and the Unsayable Real
Michael T. Stevenson

Chapter 10. The Uglification of Jamaica: A Question of Landscape Values
Brian Hudson

Part IV: Recolonialisation in Place and Space

Chapter 11. Engineering Space: How Place is Being Remade by New Understandings of Settler Colonies
Ian Bethell-Bennett

Chapter 12. Food Deserts: The Coloniality of Power and Spatial (In)Justice in The Bahamas
Ian Bethell-Bennett

Conclusion: Is This (Really) My Island in the Sun?
Ian Bethell-Bennett and Jessica Minnis

Index

The Inequity of Caribbean Spaces and Designed Places

Race, Class and Gender

Edited by Ian Bethell-Bennett and Jessica Minnis

394 pages, 29 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN 978-1-83695-520-7 Hb Published (June 2026)

web ISBN 978-1-83695-518-4

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“It is a very important contribution to cultural and development studies and other fields - and will, without doubt, find its way to teaching and research bibliographies.” • Tom Selwyn, Research Associate at SOAS and a Visiting Professor at Breda University, The Netherlands, and Bethlehem University

The views of space and place of people living in the Caribbean are different from Northern folk; Inequality is bound to socially constructed traits like race, gender, class, sexual orientation and other aspects of discrimination. Through interconnected perspectives on environment, gender inequality, identity and Caribbean spatial re-colonisation influences on social, cultural and environmental landscapes, The Inequity of Caribbean Spaces and Designed Places: Race, Class and Gender examines socio-spatial (in)justices beyond physical and geographical boundaries that Caribbean societies face.

Ian Bethell-Bennett is a professor of English, adjunct in the School of Social Sciences, and former dean of Liberal and Fine Arts at the University of The Bahamas. He participated in National Exhibition 7, NE8, NE9, NE 10 as well as in 2018 Double Dutch Hot Water with Plastico Fantastico, and Evolution of the Arc. He has co-edited Tourism, Governance and Sustainability in The Bahamas (Routledge, 2020) with Sophia Rolle and Jessica Minnis and Pandemics, Disasters, Sustainability, Tourism: An Examination of Impact on and Resilience in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (Emerald 2022) with Minnis, Rolle and Fevzi Okuus.

Jessica Minnis is a professor of Sociology, University of The Bahamas. She co-edited the book Junkanoo and Religion (Media Enterprises, 2002), co-edited with Sophia Rolle and Ian Bethell-Bennett Tourism, Governance and Sustainability in The Bahamas (Routledge 2020), and Pandemics, Disasters, Sustainability, Tourism: An Examination of Impact on and Resilience in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (Emerald 2022) with Rolle, Bethell-Bennett.

Series: Volume 6, Articulating Journeys: Festivals, Memorials, and Homecomings

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Cultural Studies (General)

Area: Latin America and the Caribbean

BISAC: SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social; SOC008050 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Ethnic Studies/Caribbean & Latin American Studies; POL033000 POLITICAL SCIENCE/Globalization

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The Inequity of Caribbean Spaces and Designed Places

Race, Class and Gender

Edited by Ian Bethell-Bennett and Jessica Minnis

Series: Volume 6, Articulating Journeys: Festivals, Memorials, and Homecomings

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Cultural Studies (General)

Area: Latin America and the Caribbean

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The Inequity of Caribbean Spaces and Designed Places

Race, Class and Gender

Edited by Ian Bethell-Bennett and Jessica Minnis

Series: Volume 6, Articulating Journeys: Festivals, Memorials, and Homecomings

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Cultural Studies (General)

Area: Latin America and the Caribbean