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Baptiste, Espelencia Marie

Espelencia Marie Baptiste is a professor at Kalamazoo College She obtained her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from The Johns Hopkins University.

HOW CITIZENS ARE PRODUCED AND ETHNICITY IS MAINTAINED IN POST-COLONIAL MAURITIUS, WITH SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE CREOLES: An Anthropological Study

2013 0-7734-3598-0
This book examines how an education system can provide mechanisms for nation building This work exposes how these mechanisms influence imagining, building, and enacting nation in a country with no native population It also examines how its colonially introduced ethnic groups proudly proclaim their differences in language and history.