What Trinidad does have is carnival—a centuries-old blowout reputedly so ... classes' efforts to tamp down the African-derived aspects of traditional mas, which they saw as vulgar and unruly.

Twenty-eight-year-old ... Mangueira's Carnival parade. UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: (Singing in non-English language). KAHN: Thousands are decked out in the school's bright pink and green colors. She says ...