Stains on my name war in my veins guyana and the politics of cultural struggle brackette f williams bridget brereton university of the west indies search for more papers by this author bridget brereton university of the west indies search for more papers by this author. Stains on my name war in my veins guyana and the politics of cultural struggle war in my veins guyana and the politics of cultural struggle by williams brackette f publication date 1991 topics cultural pluralism ethnicity nationalism kultursoziologie nationalismus geschichte 1966 1990 culture history guyana publisher. Click on the article title to read more. Burdened with a heritage of both spanish and british colonization and imperialism guyana is today caught between its colonial past its efforts to achieve the consciousness of nationhood and the need of its diverse subgroups to maintain their own identity stains on my name war in my veins chronicles the complex struggles of the citizens of guyana to form a unified national culture against . Stains on my name war in my veins chronicles the complex struggles of the citizens of guyana to form a unified national culture against the pulls of ethnic religious and class identities