April Fool’s and the “Recalcitrant Minority” in Trinidad and Tobago
In Trinidad and Tobago, you would be shocked to learn how much a very specific term like “recalcitrant,” especially when married to the word “minority,” is part of the popular vocabulary. The phrase “recalcitrant minority” has a particular resonance in the “young, multiethnic, multicultural, newly-independent state” (Rohlehr 1997, 849). Rohlehr’s description of the society in […]
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