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The Cunning of Multiculturalism: A Perspective from the Caribbean

When Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, a Trinidadian of Indian descent, announced in her Indian Arrival Day speech in 2010 that the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago’s Ministry of Arts and Culture was being renamed the Ministry of Arts and Multiculturalism, she triggered a heated public debate about the formal adoption of multiculturalism as policy. This was, in many ways, a predictable response for Trinidadians, who are acutely aware of the mutual entanglement between politics and culture and ever vigilant of instances of it.1 The Indo-Trinidadian2 journalist Kris Rampersad, chair of UNESCO’s T&T National Commission, had this to say: