
Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation

In their eyes, reform was entirely enlightened policy, and in advocating it, they repeatedly invoked the rhetoric of "freedom," "modernity," and "liberty."
Harvey R. Neptune • Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation
U. S. citizens also helped legitimize and globalize the calypso through their participation in its production.
Harvey R. Neptune • Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation
Captain C. Longridge, who in 1932 denounced jazz from the United States as "primitive music" and summoned fellow believers to "taboo the jazz dance in every shape and form."
Harvey R. Neptune • Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation
Arising in occupied Trinidad was unprecedented public debate about the relationships between clothes and the overlapping precepts around class, gender, race, and empire.
Harvey R. Neptune • Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation
it referred to what the piece defined as tastelessness marked by "a contrast of luxury and squalor."$9