Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation

Their romance with the Yankee dollar,

class privilege,

foreshadow a future filled with the seductively colonizing commodities of American modernity.

"cosquelle."

solutions.

Although the local administration admitted no link between newly arrived Americans and its amendment of the established dress code, framing the decision as a wartime measure to conserve fabric, the U.S. presence undoubtedly spurred the new policy."

Arising in occupied Trinidad was unprecedented public debate about the relationships between clothes and the overlapping precepts around class, gender, race, and empire.

In their eyes, reform was entirely enlightened policy, and in advocating it, they repeatedly invoked the rhetoric of "freedom," "modernity," and "liberty."

poor lived in a world of "make believe" and achieved "greater and greater flights of imagination."