[Reader-list] Race, Ethnicity, Nationalism and Democracy in the Caribbean

[Rajesh Ramakrishnan]

Monday, 5th May, 2008

You are invited to a talk on

`Race, Ethnicity, Nationalism and Democracy in the Caribbean'

by Professor David Traboulay

at 3:30 PM at the Seminar Room, Centre for the Study of Developing
Societies (CSDS), 29, Rajpur Road, Delhi 110 054.


David Traboulay is Professor of History at College of Staten Island,
City University of New York. Professor Traboulay chaired the History
department at CSI from 1976 to 1991.  He is currently coordinator of
the CSI MA in Liberal Studies Program, a position he has held since
1997. In 1993 he was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor to
Delhi University in India.


Prof. Traboulay has written extensively on colonial Latin America,
especially on the encounter between Europeans and the indigenous
peoples of America. In 1993 he published, Columbus and Las Casas: The
Conquest and Christianization of America, 1492-1577.  He has published
several articles on the culture and politics of India and Latin
America.  Recently he has completed a book-length manuscript on
Mahatma Gandhi's Satyagraha and a biography of the West Indies
cricketer Ramadhin.