Christopher Williams is assistant professor of history, English, and philosophy at the University College of the Cayman Islands.

• Chapter One: Becoming Native CaymanianChapter Two: The More Things Change: The Stubborn Decline of Racialism During Immediate Post-EmancipationChapter Three: And Then There was Light: The Shaping Conditions of a Distinct National-Cultural Caymanian Identity and its Subsequent TraditionalismsChapter Four: Bringing Traditionalist Ideas and Conceptions to Bear on a Cultural Caymanian Identity Beset by Material HardshipChapter Five: The Sustenance of Caymanian Identity in Geographical Displacement: A Case Study ApproachChapter Six: Outgrowing the Surrogate Mother: Accounting for the Dramatic Shift in Caymanian Perceptions toward Jamaica and Jamaicans During the Federation EraChapter Seven: Proliferating Caymanianness: Accounting for the Factors that Lead to Division within Caymanian NationalityChapter Eight: Theory in Practice: Bringing the Legitimacy of Carnival and the Carnivalesque to Bear on Fractured Rhetorical Caymanian CultureConclusion: Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?

This book is an insightful study of identity formation, belonging, and indigeneity in the Cayman Islands, a small British dependency in the Caribbean, which has seen high levels of in-migration in recent decades. Its strength is its ‘insider’ perspective, and its presentation of testimonies from a very wide range of present-day natives and residents of these islands.

Christopher Williams is assistant professor of history, English, and philosophy at the University College of the Cayman Islands.

• Chapter One: Becoming Native CaymanianChapter Two: The More Things Change: The Stubborn Decline of Racialism During Immediate Post-EmancipationChapter Three: And Then There was Light: The Shaping Conditions of a Distinct National-Cultural Caymanian Identity and its Subsequent TraditionalismsChapter Four: Bringing Traditionalist Ideas and Conceptions to Bear on a Cultural Caymanian Identity Beset by Material HardshipChapter Five: The Sustenance of Caymanian Identity in Geographical Displacement: A Case Study ApproachChapter Six: Outgrowing the Surrogate Mother: Accounting for the Dramatic Shift in Caymanian Perceptions toward Jamaica and Jamaicans During the Federation EraChapter Seven: Proliferating Caymanianness: Accounting for the Factors that Lead to Division within Caymanian NationalityChapter Eight: Theory in Practice: Bringing the Legitimacy of Carnival and the Carnivalesque to Bear on Fractured Rhetorical Caymanian CultureConclusion: Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?

This book is an insightful study of identity formation, belonging, and indigeneity in the Cayman Islands, a small British dependency in the Caribbean, which has seen high levels of in-migration in recent decades. Its strength is its ‘insider’ perspective, and its presentation of testimonies from a very wide range of present-day natives and residents of these islands.

Christopher Williams is assistant professor of history, English, and philosophy at the University College of the Cayman Islands.

• Chapter One: Becoming Native CaymanianChapter Two: The More Things Change: The Stubborn Decline of Racialism During Immediate Post-EmancipationChapter Three: And Then There was Light: The Shaping Conditions of a Distinct National-Cultural Caymanian Identity and its Subsequent TraditionalismsChapter Four: Bringing Traditionalist Ideas and Conceptions to Bear on a Cultural Caymanian Identity Beset by Material HardshipChapter Five: The Sustenance of Caymanian Identity in Geographical Displacement: A Case Study ApproachChapter Six: Outgrowing the Surrogate Mother: Accounting for the Dramatic Shift in Caymanian Perceptions toward Jamaica and Jamaicans During the Federation EraChapter Seven: Proliferating Caymanianness: Accounting for the Factors that Lead to Division within Caymanian NationalityChapter Eight: Theory in Practice: Bringing the Legitimacy of Carnival and the Carnivalesque to Bear on Fractured Rhetorical Caymanian CultureConclusion: Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?

This book is an insightful study of identity formation, belonging, and indigeneity in the Cayman Islands, a small British dependency in the Caribbean, which has seen high levels of in-migration in recent decades. Its strength is its ‘insider’ perspective, and its presentation of testimonies from a very wide range of present-day natives and residents of these islands.