ABSTRACT
Resistance as a political and social strategy has its origin in a minority’s response to oppression by a majority. This chapter examines the situation of Trinidad and Tobago from 1956 to 1986, where this tableau was inverted. The colonial regime saw a large Black majority governed by a foreign white minority, which generated resistance. After independence in 1962, the practices and mentality of resistance persisted in the culture. This chapter proposes a limit to the usefulness of resistance and examines the consequences of its persistence after the conditions which made it a necessity have changed.
