This book examines the experience of post-colonial territories and their attempts to manage ethnic communities within their countries. It focuses on the various mechanisms that have been introduced in a number of post-colonial societies in order to ascertain if these were effective in not only ensuring stability within the different ethnic communities but if they also allowed for integration into the wider whole. While a number of writers have attempted to examine this subject in larger nations, this project limits its scope to small, plural societies: Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Fiji, and Suriname.