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Minority Status as a Contested Terrain: Defining the Parameters of Subordinate Status in Post-Independent Fiji Discourse.

Discusses the competing interpretations of superordinate and subordinate status for Indians and Fijians following the two coups d'etat in 1987. Notions of competition between the groups as racialized subjects in the discursive practices of post-coup Fiji; Stereotyped notions of racial difference in...

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Published in:Social Identities Vol. 8; no. 1; pp. 11 - 44
Main Author: White, Carmen M.
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Mar2002
Subjects:
Fiji
Coups d'état
Race relations
Social history
Fijians
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Summary:Discusses the competing interpretations of superordinate and subordinate status for Indians and Fijians following the two coups d'etat in 1987. Notions of competition between the groups as racialized subjects in the discursive practices of post-coup Fiji; Stereotyped notions of racial difference in post-colonial Fiji.