Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation

Their romance with the Yankee dollar,

United States especially, policy-makersexplicitly discouraged them from cultivating Western-type desires.

people in Trinidad made patterns from the United States integral to their dress

it referred to what the piece defined as tastelessness marked by "a contrast of luxury and squalor."$9

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

working-class reality and working-class imagination had become dangerously wide.

Complex and ambiguous, women's engagements with sojourning U.S. personnel encapsulate the wider society during the years of occupation.

Yankees would just take out their dollars and throw to the singers.

U. S. citizens also helped legitimize and globalize the calypso through their participation in its production.