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Creolization in the Making of the Americas*
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Caribbean Quarterly
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March 1, 2008
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Copyright informationCopyright University of the West Indies Mar-Jun 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Inscribed in the American landscape, opening up through it, living in and manifsting it, there is a "civilizational region," real but long unnoticed, perhaps because it was balkanized by occidental colonizers. This is the region of the "plantation system;' composed of the West Indies and the Caribbean, the Caribbean coast of Latin America (that is to say, the coastal part of Venezuela and Colombia, which is different in many respects from the South American Andes), the Guyanas, the northeastern part of Brazil, and part of the southern United States. It is connected to Mexico and Central America, whose West Indian character is obvious both in Panama and in Belize. The boundaries of Panama ...
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