ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that it is important to locate institutional racism at the international as well as the intra-state level. It is argued that the framework of institutional racism demonstrates that there is a failure to provide a service due to unwitting racism based on colour, of which the Caribbean countries are victims. The removal of preferential trading agreements with the European Union (EU) as a tool to help Caribbean economies survive in a competitive world has been replaced by Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA). There is a pattern of behaviour that unwittingly leads to the West treating the Caribbean trading partners in a discriminatory way and it will be argued that this is the legacy of the slave trade — institutional racism. Preferential trading rules are recognised by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) but often side-stepped when challenged in the arena of the desire to enforce the rules regarding non-discrimination.
