Caribbean Studies

4. Originally denoted the wealthy stratum of the middle class that originated during the latter part of the Middle Ages (AD 500–1500).
5. The term was used as a racial category in the Casta system that was in use during the Spanish empire's control of their American colonies.
7. classification of people into groups based on shared socio-economic conditions .
9. The process by which Africans and East Indian makes descendants.
12. The process of adopting the cultural traits or social patterns of another group.

1. The process of one variety blending with another variety.
2. a ruling class, political order or government composed of plantation owners.
3. It is used to describe Caribbean people who are a product of African and East Indian descent.
6. Describes the class of wage-earners in a capitalist society whose only possession of significant material value is their labour-power.
8. A social class of people engaged in complex mental labour aimed at disseminating culture.
10. Any of the hereditary social classes and sub-classes of south Asian society.
11. a person who is born from one white parent and one black parent, or more broadly, a person of any "mixed" ancestry.