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1 CARIBBEAN STUDIES Vol. 16 April, 1976 No. 1 I. Articles ARNOLD A. SIO. Race, Colour, and Miscegenation: The Free Coloured of Jamaica and Barbados 5 JOAN D. KOSS. Religion and Science Divinely Related: A Case History of Spiritism in Puerto Rico 22 MICHAEL V. AGROSINO. Sexual Politics in the East Indian Family in Trinidad 44 W. ERROL BOWEN. Development, Immigration, and Politics in a Pre-Industrial Society: A Study of Social Change in the British Virgin Islands in the 1960s 67 II. Research Survey RUTH C. YOUNG. Political Autonomy and Economic Development in the Caribbean Islands 86 III. Research Notes MICHAEL H. BEAUBRUN. The View from Monkey Mountain 115 MARK A. QUIÑONES and JOHN GOTSCH. Machismo among Puerto Rican Farmworkers in Southern New Jersey 124 IV. Current Dissertations on the Caribbean WILLIAM M. SULLIVAN. Dissertations on Venezuelan Topics: A Partially Annotated Bibliography of Dissertations Completed in the United States, Great Britain and Canada, V. Book Reviews KURT W. BACK. Slums, Projects and People: HELEN ICKEN SAFA. The Urban Poor of Puerto Rico: A Study in Development and Inequality, reviewed by Rafael L. Ramirez 165 G. B. HAGELBERG. The Caribbean Sugar Industries: Constraints and Opportunities, reviewed by Lynn Darrell Bender 169

2 ALEX INKELES and DAVID H. SMITH. Becoming Modern, Individual Change in Six Developing Countries, reviewed by Millard W. Hansen 171 GORDON K. LEWIS. Notes on the Puerto Rican Revolution, reviewed by Gervasio Luis García 178 SIDNEY W. MINTZ. Caribbean Transformation, reviewed by Susan Craig 185 VI. Current Bibliography 189

3 CARIBBEAN STUDIES Vol. 16 July, 1976 No. 2 I. Articles F.A. BAPTISTE. The British Grant of Air and Naval Facilities to the United States in Trinidad, St. Lucia and Bermuda in June-December, HUMBERTO GARCIA MUÑIZ, Puerto Rico in the United Nations, 1953: An Appraisal 44 HERBERT L. HILLER. Escapism, Penetration, and Response: Industrial Tourism in the Caribbean 92 ANDREW SANDERS. American Indian or West Indian: The Case of the Coastal Amerindians of Guyana 117 II. Review Article MAVIS C. CAMPBELL. Notes on Time on the Cross 145 III. Research Commentary NICOLAS MUÑOZ. Estructura Ocupacional y Distribución del Ingreso en Puerto Rico, IV. Research Survey JOHN A. LENT. Commonwealth Caribbean: Production and Consumption of the Mass Media 184 V. Research Notes M.C. DREHER and C.M. ROGERS. Getting High: Ganja Man and His Socio-economic Milieu 219 MARGARET VAZQUEZ-GEFFROY. La Dispensa Borra Consanguinidad: Preferred Consanguineal Marriage in a Dominican Peasant Village 232

4 VI. Book Reviews TRUMAN R. CLARK. Puerto Rico and the United States, ; and SURENDRA BHANA. The United States and the Development of the Puerto Rican Status Question, , reviewed by Robert W. Anderson 240 RICHARD S DUNN. Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, , reviewed by Brian W. Blouet and Olwyn M. Blouet 243 ADAM KUPER. Changing Jamaica, reviewed by Carl Stone 246 CHARLES HUSBAND, ed. White Media and Black Britain, reviewed by Marilyn Awooner 249 HUGH TINKER. A New System of Slavery: The Export of Indian Labour to Overseas, , reviewed by Brian W. Blouet and Olwyn M. Blouet 251 VII. Current Bibliography 254

5 CARIBBEAN STUDIES Vol. 16 October 1976, January 1977 Nos. 3 and 4 I. Articles BASIL A. INCE. The Racial Factor in the International Relations of Trinidad and Tobago 5 ALVIN O. THOMPSON. Race and Colour Prejudices and the Origin of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade 29 BRUCE M. TAYLOR. Our Man in London: John Pollard Mayers, Agent for Barbados, and the British Abolition Act, JOHN C. GANNON. The Racial Ideology in Jamaican Politics: The People's Political Party in the Parliamentary Elections of MARGUERITE C. SUAREZ-MURIAS. El Realismo Mágico Hispanoamericano: Una Definición Étnica 109 II. Research Commentaries ANGEL L. RUIZ. The Impact of the Economic Recession on the Puerto Rican Economy: An Input-Output Approach 125 FARLEY S. BRATHWAITE. Upward Mobility and Career (Value) Orientation: An Empirical Test of the Embour-geoisement Thesis 149 III. Research Survey ROBERT H. DEANS. Commodity and Geographical Concentration in the CACM Countries and Implications for Economic Development 171 IV. Research Notes

6 T.E. GILES and T.J. PALACIO. Problems in Teacher Education in Belize 207 DAVID WILLIAMSON. Adaptation to Socio-Cultural Change: Working-Class Cubans in New Orleans 217 V. Document La Relación de la Guayana. Introducción por MANUEL CARDENAS 229 VI. Current Bibliography 237

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