by Jane Gordon
Might creolization offer political theory an approach that
would better reflect the heterogeneity of political life? After all, it
describes mixtures that were not supposed to have emerged in the plantation
societies of the Caribbean but did so through their capacity to exemplify
living culture, thought, and political practice. Similar processes continue
today, when people who once were strangers find themselves unequal co-occupants
of new political locations they both seek to call "home."
