Vestindisk er den officielle term anvendt af USA's regering om folk fra Vestindien. <ref>{{Skabelon:Cite web|url=http://www.infoplease.com/us/census/data/social.html|title=Info Please U.S. Social Statistics|accessdate=1 October 2015}}</ref>
== Use of the term ==
Professor ved Tulane University Rosanne Adderly siger "[T]he phrase 'West Indies' distinguished the territories encountered by Columbus and claimed by Spain from discovery claims by other powers in [Asia's] 'East Indies'. … The term 'West Indies' was eventually used by all European nations to describe their own acquired territories in the Americas. … considering British Caribbean colonies collectively as the 'West Indies' had its greatest political importance in the 1950s with the movement to create a federation of those colonies that could ultimately become an independent nation... Despite the collapse of the Federation [in the early 1960s]… the West Indies continues to field a joint cricket team for international competition."<ref>Rosanne Adderly, "West Indies," in Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures, Volume 1: A-D (London and New York: Routledge, 2000): 1584.</ref>
The member states of the West Indies cricket team also include [[Guyana]], which is in [[Sydamerika|South America]].
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== FurtherYderligere readinglæsning ==
* Cromwell, Jesse. "More than Slaves and Sugar: Recent Historiography of the Trans-imperial Caribbean and Its Sinew Populations." ''History Compass'' (2014) 12#10 pp 770-783.
* Higman, Barry W. ''A Concise History of the Caribbean.'' (2011)
