For the play by Richard Cumberland, see The West Indian. For the region on the west coast of India, see Western India.
A West Indian is a native or inhabitant of the West Indies (the Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago). In the 1597 Oxford English Dictionary, the term West Indian initially described the indigenous inhabitants of the West Indies, by 1661 the term defined "an inhabitant or native of the West Indies, of European origin or descent." In the 1950s, coinciding with decolonization and the arrival of Afro-Caribbean migrants in United Kingdom, West Indian referred those who were Black. Inclusively, in 1961 all inhabitants of the West Indies Federation were named as West Indian reguardless of their descent. [1] The OED now defines it as referring to any permanent citizen of the West Indies nations. Some West Indian people reserve this term for citizens or natives of the British West Indies only, to the exclusion of not just the Hispanophones, but also French and Dutch West Indians.
^Hall, Catherine (2003). "What Is a West Indian?". In Schwartz, Bill (ed.). West Indian Intellectuals in Britain. Manchester: Manchester University Press. pp. 33–34. ISBN9780719064746. OCLC 52829533. Retrieved 12 December 2013.
Further readingedit
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. 37 (6): 1–10. doi:10.1080/01419870.2012.748212. S2CID 141059126.
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): 93–110. doi:10.1353/smx.2003.0023. S2CID 145632320.
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