This up-to-date account of the violent assertion of ethnic Fijian identity reveals the multi-ethnic island as a microcosm of issues confronting many other countries in the modern world. The authors provide a thoughtful investigation into how elite ethnic Fijians responded to their own class insecurity by transposing their racist ideology into the international language of indigenous rights. They reveal how inter-communal conflict often has its origins in the economic and political interests of only a narrow class.
