the symbolics of moral and cultural orthodoxies governing the politics of exclusion in nation building projects
the viability of an alternative space for a postcolonial national imaginary that is independent of Europe.
the disruptive/enabling and conservative possibilities embodied in ideologies of mixture such as creolization especially as they relate to those of South Asian descent in the Caribbean
epistemological issues having to do with the articulation of "theoretical concepts" with lay and political discursive forms a
the specifics of my New World empirical field location and the epistemologies and methodologies governing the discipline of anthropology itself especially in relation to its master trope, culture and to its conventions of evidence.
the articulation of ethnic studies with postcolonial studies
the symbolics of the "dougla" (those of mixed African and Indian ancestry in Trinidad) in the national imaginary in Trinidad
2003 Callaloo or Tossed Salad? East Indians and the Cultural Politics of Identity in Trinidad. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001. (Association for Asian American Studies, Social Science Book Award)
Nationalism in Hybrid Spaces: The Production of Impurity out of Purity, in American Ethnologist August 2002 Vol. 29 (3): 663-692. 2002
Redefining the Nation: The East Indian Struggle in Trinidad, in Journal of Asian American Studies February 2001 Vol. 5. 1997
Culture Creators and Culture Bearers: The Interface Between Race and Ethnicity in Trinidad, in Transforming Anthropology 1997 Vol. 6 (1&2): 72-86. 2001
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