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It is imperative in these times of rampant cynicism and incredulity regarding the goal of achieving a universality rich with ever-deepening particularities to remain faithful to those whose blood and sweat have afforded us the opportunity to be academics. This book is dedicated to my grandmother Elza and all those other grandmothers and grandfathers in the Caribbean who made these lands liveable after the horrors of the Middle Passage and the Kala Pani (the voyage of the dark waters from India to the Caribbean). They understood that by contradicting themselves and making productive use of the contradictions in the capitalist system, they could achieve moments of freedom and human solidarity. In this study I looked to them and their offspring, as well as newcomers to the region, to find ways of rekindling the flame of planetary humanism.
This study concerns itself with the manner in which popular disc jockeys on the binational island of Saint Martin and Sint Maarten (the French and Dutch West Indies) employ Caribbean music and creolized Christianity to put forth all-inclusive politics of belonging. It is about how on a multiethnic and multireligious island, where everyone's livelihood depends on tourism, all social classes seek and are often able to transcend their ethnic and religious differences. This is done paradoxically by employing creolized Christianity as a public religion that does not privilege any of the faiths practiced, not even itself. It is an ethnography that seeks to demonstrate that in a time in which ethnic- and religious-based identity politics are rampant, there are alternatives in the world. There are places where people understand, because of their circumstances, that taking on an identity is about creating for oneself a space to act while taking others into consideration.
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