Drawing on a wide range of historical, sociological, and anthropological
theory and data, Moore describes and analyses the institutions, customs,
and beliefs of Afro-Creole, Indian Bhojpuri, Portuguese Latin, Chinese
Hua-Qiao, and Victorian élite subcultures that make up Guyanese society.
He looks at the way British colonizers used their power to transform and
submerge the cultures of other ethnic groups and establish their own
cultural model as dominant, and he examines the efforts of the diverse
subordinate groups to resist such cultural imperialism and retain
aspects of their own traditional cultures. Moore argues that it is the
intricate interplay of these conflicting and competing forces that
determined the extent of sociocultural integration or pluralism that the
society as a whole achieved. Cultural Power, Resistance, and Pluralism
makes a significant contribution to Caribbean historiography and the
study of multiracial societies.