The Two Variants in Caribbean Race Relations

Hoetink, Harmannus, The Two Variants in Caribbean Race Relations: A Contribution to the Sociology of Segmented Societies, London, New York and Toronto: Institute of Race Relations, 1967. [Second copy with author's dedication: "To Tom, To serve as a token of great esteem and friendship. January 1970"]

Reviewed in Comparative Politics © 1972.
Cited by Sydney Mintz in Comparative Studies in Society and History © 1971.
See also Ethnicity in the Caribbean: essays in honor of Harry Hoetink by Gert Oostindie.

From the book cover:

In this study, translated from the Dutch, of the segmented societies of the Caribbean (in which are here included the Southern States of the USA), Dr. Hoetink distinguishes two variants: the Iberian or Latin, in those parts of the area colonized by Spain or Portugal; and the North-West European, in the areas where the colonial power was British, French or Dutch. He gives much attention to the difficulties, for the metropolitan outsider, of achieving objectivity in studies such as these. Dr. Hoetink discusses the origins, 'racial' and cultural, of these segmented societies, social mobility - or the lack of it - within them, and the psychological issues involved. Ultimately he sees the world as itself similarly segmented, with all the problems and possibilities inherent in a segmented society.