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The Making of a Jamaican Don

Author : Clifton Cameron
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1450270484
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Making of a Jamaican Don written by Clifton Cameron and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jamaican dons see themselves as leaders, protectors, and nearly God-like figures. They see themselves as bigger than even the Prime Minister; with the resources they have, they are not afraid of anyone. In The Making of a Jamaican Don, author Clifton Cameron tells the story of these Jamaican donstheir history, and the role they play in the governing of the Caribbean country. This story is told through the eyes of Spanner and Trinity, two youths from rural Jamaica who leave their homes in Kitson Town and travel to Kingston for a better life. But here, their lives change in ways they could not have imagined. They find themselves embroiled in politics and the world of donship, eventually spending time in Jamaicas notorious General Penitentiary Prison. A true account of tragedy and death, The Making of a Jamaican Don highlights the links between dons, guns, drugs, police, politicians, public officials, and corruption.

The Rise and Fall of a Jamaican Don

Author : Andre M. Porter
Publisher : Tru Life Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780973982718
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of a Jamaican Don written by Andre M. Porter and published by Tru Life Pub. This book was released on 2005 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being guarded by their african voodoo priest and natural talent for violence, a group of teenagers from Jamaica mature into platinum status businessmen and started what became known as the first jamaican mafia. With the murder of an FBI agent and the slaying of prominent businessman and italian mob boss Don DeAngelo, the jamaicans are now wanted dead or alive by the police and members of the most organized crime family.

How to Love a Jamaican

Author : Alexia Arthurs
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 1524799211
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book How to Love a Jamaican written by Alexia Arthurs and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In these kaleidoscopic stories of Jamaica and its diaspora we hear many voices at once. All of them convince and sing. All of them shine.”—Zadie Smith An O: The Oprah Magazine “Top 15 Best of the Year” • A Well-Read Black Girl Pick Tenderness and cruelty, loyalty and betrayal, ambition and regret—Alexia Arthurs navigates these tensions to extraordinary effect in her debut collection about Jamaican immigrants and their families back home. Sweeping from close-knit island communities to the streets of New York City and midwestern university towns, these eleven stories form a portrait of a nation, a people, and a way of life. In “Light-Skinned Girls and Kelly Rowlands,” an NYU student befriends a fellow Jamaican whose privileged West Coast upbringing has blinded her to the hard realities of race. In “Mash Up Love,” a twin’s chance sighting of his estranged brother—the prodigal son of the family—stirs up unresolved feelings of resentment. In “Bad Behavior,” a couple leave their wild teenage daughter with her grandmother in Jamaica, hoping the old ways will straighten her out. In “Mermaid River,” a Jamaican teenage boy is reunited with his mother in New York after eight years apart. In “The Ghost of Jia Yi,” a recently murdered student haunts a despairing Jamaican athlete recruited to an Iowa college. And in “Shirley from a Small Place,” a world-famous pop star retreats to her mother’s big new house in Jamaica, which still holds the power to restore something vital. Alexia Arthurs emerges in this vibrant, lyrical, intimate collection as one of fiction’s most dynamic and essential authors. Praise for How to Love a Jamaican “A sublime short-story collection from newcomer Alexia Arthurs that explores, through various characters, a specific strand of the immigrant experience.”—Entertainment Weekly “With its singular mix of psychological precision and sun-kissed lyricism, this dazzling debut marks the emergence of a knockout new voice.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “Gorgeous, tender, heartbreaking stories . . . Arthurs is a witty, perceptive, and generous writer, and this is a book that will last.”—Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties “Vivid and exciting . . . every story rings beautifully true.”—Marie Claire

Another Mother

Author : Ross Kenneth Urken
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789768286048
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Another Mother written by Ross Kenneth Urken and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jamaica's Find

Author : Juanita Havill
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395393765
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Jamaica's Find written by Juanita Havill and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1986 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little girl finds a stuffed dog in the park and decides to take it home.

Recidivism in the Caribbean

Author : Dacia L. Leslie
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030129071
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Recidivism in the Caribbean written by Dacia L. Leslie and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-26 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed and practical exploration of criminal recidivism and social reintegration in Jamaica. It uses various methods to seek the authentic voices of inmates, ex-prisoners, deported migrants and practitioners, drawing on an original study to examine factors that might help ex-prisoners more successfully transition from a prison environment to life within the community. Leslie also raises important questions about the Jamaican state’s capacity to meet the needs of inmates, particularly as a large number of its citizens are subject to forced repatriation to their homeland by overseas jurisdictions due to their offending. Recidivism in the Caribbean provides a unique insight into institutional and community life in a post-colonial society, whilst linking practices theories of offender management. It will particularly appeal to criminologists and sociologists interested in tertiary crime prevention but also those interested in correctional policy and practice, punishment and deviance.

Jamaica Inn

Author : Daphne du Maurier
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 9780316575225
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (752 download)

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Download or read book Jamaica Inn written by Daphne du Maurier and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2023-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Rebecca and The Birds: a classic thriller of shipwreck and murder, "rich in suspense and surprise" (New York Times Book Review). On a bitter November evening, young Mary Yellan journeys across the rainswept moors to Jamaica Inn in honor of her mother's dying request. When she arrives, the warning of the coachman begins to echo in her memory, for her aunt Patience cowers before hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn. Terrified of the inn's brooding power, Mary gradually finds herself ensnared in the dark schemes being enacted behind its crumbling walls -- and tempted to love a man she dares not trust. The inspiration for the 1939 Alfred Hitchcock film.

Don Drummond

Author : Heather Augustyn
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476603332
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Don Drummond written by Heather Augustyn and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-08-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive biography of a brilliant musician who forever shaped the course of ska, reggae, and popular music worldwide, only to take the life of his lover and in so doing, destroy his career at the age of 30. In his short life Don Drummond created an enduring legacy despite poverty, class separation, mental illness, racial politics, and the exploitation of his work. The words of Drummond's childhood friends, classmates, musicians, medical staff, legal counsel, and teachers enliven this story of his "unusual mind." They recall the early days in the recording studio, playing the instrumental backup for Bob Marley and others, and the nights in the Rasta camps where musicians burned the midnight oil and more. They remember the gyrations of his lover, Margarita, the Rumba Queen, as she tantalized audiences at Club Havana; tell what happened that tragic night when Drummond stabbed Margarita four times; reveal details of the trial (delayed more than a year as Drummond was ruled mentally unfit) and offer insights into Drummond's death in a mental asylum at age 35.

From Africa to Jamaica

Author : Audra A. Diptee
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813042992
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book From Africa to Jamaica written by Audra A. Diptee and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2010-07-18 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich with historical sketches of the life and experiences of slaves in Africa, on slave ships, and in Jamaica, this volume illustrates the way enslaved Africans lived and helped to shape Jamaican society in the three decades before British abolition of the slave trade. Audra Diptee's in-depth investigations reveal unexpected insights into the demographics of those captured in Africa and legally transported on British slave ships. For example, there is a commonly held belief that slave traders had a preference for adult males. In fact, the practicalities of slave raiding meant that women, children, and large groups of the elderly were particularly vulnerable during raids and were more often captured and made available for sale in the Caribbean. From Africa to Jamaica offers a new look at the Atlantic slave trade in its final years, fleshing out the historical portrait of the African men, women, and children who were sold in Jamaica and were thus among the last of the enslaved to put their stamp on Jamaican society. There is no comparable study that takes such a comprehensive approach, looking at both the African and Jamaican sides of the trade system.

Island Gospel

Author : Melvin L. Butler
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252051769
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Island Gospel written by Melvin L. Butler and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pentecostals throughout Jamaica and the Jamaican diaspora use music to declare what they believe and where they stand in relation to religious and cultural outsiders. Yet the inclusion of secular music forms like ska, reggae, and dancehall complicated music's place in social and ritual practice, challenging Jamaican Pentecostals to reconcile their religious and cultural identities. Melvin Butler journeys into this crossing of boundaries and its impact on Jamaican congregations and the music they make. Using the concept of flow, Butler's ethnography evokes both the experience of Spirit-influenced performance and the transmigrations that fuel the controversial sharing of musical and ritual resources between Jamaica and the United States. Highlighting constructions of religious and cultural identity, Butler illuminates music's vital place in how the devout regulate spiritual and cultural flow while striving to maintain both the sanctity and fluidity of their evolving tradition.Insightful and original, Island Gospel tells the many stories of how music and religious experience unite to create a sense of belonging among Jamaican people of faith.

A Million Aunties

Author : Alecia McKenzie
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617758957
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book A Million Aunties written by Alecia McKenzie and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American-born artist Chris is forced to reconsider his conception of family during a visit to his mother’s Caribbean homeland. “Thoroughly satisfying . . . This bighearted narrative of love, loss, and family is handled with grace and beauty.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review “Alecia McKenzie’s tender new novel [is] an emotionally resonant ode to adopted families and community resilience.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice After a personal tragedy upends his world, American-born artist Chris travels to his mother’s homeland in the Caribbean hoping to find some peace and tranquility. He plans to spend his time painting in solitude and coming to terms with his recent loss and his fractured relationship with his father. Instead, he discovers a new extended and complicated “family.” The people he meets help him to heal, even as he supports them in unexpected ways. Told from different points of view, this is a compelling novel about unlikely love, friendship, and community, with surprises along the way.

Wake the Town & Tell the People

Author : Norman C. Stolzoff
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822325147
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Wake the Town & Tell the People written by Norman C. Stolzoff and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethnography of Dancehall, the dominant form of reggae music in Jamica since the early 1960s.

Teen Gangs

Author : Maureen P. Duffy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313052832
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Teen Gangs written by Maureen P. Duffy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teen gangs are a hot issue in the United States. This volume shows the international scope of the phenomenon today. Gang activity in 14 countries, including the United States, is discussed within the larger framework of social and economic conditions. Each chapter explains the nature of the gang activity in that country; touches on the causes, such as poverty, marginalization, and self-identity problems; and heavily emphasizes the responses, including education and community-based intervention. Students and researchers will find a wealth of current information on teen gangs to mine and use for comparisons.

From Here to Jamaica, One Pizza at a Time

Author : Donna Marie Bixby
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1982253118
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book From Here to Jamaica, One Pizza at a Time written by Donna Marie Bixby and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2020-08-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Donna captivates the culture, life, and essence of what living life in Jamaica is like. Through her journey of spiritual healing, she meets some amazing individuals who help her find peace through her grieving. I highly recommend this book as it captures your attention and keeps the audience engaged through personal experiences. Dr. Dulce Obregon, PT, DPT, ACSM CPT

A Companion to the Gangster Film

Author : George S. Larke-Walsh
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111904166X
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Gangster Film written by George S. Larke-Walsh and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion to the study of the gangster film’s international appeal spanning the Americas, Europe, and Asia A Companion to the Gangster Film presents a comprehensive overview of the newest scholarship on the contemporary gangster film genre as a global phenomenon. While gangster films are one of America’s most popular genres, gangster movies appear in every film industry across the world. With contributions from an international panel of experts, A Companion to the Gangster Film explores the popularity of gangster films across three major continents, the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The authors acknowledge the gangster genre’s popularity and examine the reasons supporting its appeal to twenty-first century audiences across the globe. The book examines common themes across all three continents such as production histories and reception, gender race and sexuality, mafia mythologies, and politics. In addition, the companion clearly shows that no national cinema develops in isolation and that cinema is a truly global popular art form. This important guide to the gangster film genre: Reveals how the gangster film engages in complex and contradictory themes Examines the changing face of the gangster film in America Explores the ideas of gangsterism and migration in the Hispanic USA, Latin America and the Caribbean Discusses the wide variety of gangster types to appear in European cinema Contains a review of a wide-range of gangster films from the Americans, Europe, and Asia Written for academics and students of film, A Companion to the Gangster Film offers a scholarly and authoritative guide exploring the various aspects and international appeal of the gangster film genre.

Rude Boy

Author : Bentley Kyle Evans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Rude Boy written by Bentley Kyle Evans and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The African-Jamaican Aesthetic

Author : Lisa Tomlinson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004342338
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The African-Jamaican Aesthetic written by Lisa Tomlinson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-01-23 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The African- Jamaican Aesthetics Cultural Retention and Transformation Across Borders centres on the use of African Jamaican Aesthetics in Jamaica’s literary traditions and its transformation and transmission in the diaspora.