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Author : George L. Beckford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Small Garden-- Bitter Weed written by George L. Beckford and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George L. Beckford
Publisher : Canoe Press, University of the West Indies
ISBN 13 : 9789768125408
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (254 download)
Download or read book The George Beckford Papers written by George L. Beckford and published by Canoe Press, University of the West Indies. This book was released on 2000 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents papers by George Beckford which cover topics ranging from agricultural economics to political economy, to the social economy of man space, to the cultural roots of Caribbean creativity and a vision of one independent, sovereign and self-reliant Caribbean nation.
Author : Thomas Hal Phillips
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469624133
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book The Bitterweed Path written by Thomas Hal Phillips and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This long out-of-print and newly rediscovered novel tells the story of two boys growing up in the cotton country of Mississippi a generation after the Civil War. Originally published in 1950, the novel's unique contribution lies in its subtle engagement of homosexuality and cross-class love. In The Bitterweed Path, Thomas Hal Phillips vividly recreates rural Mississippi at the turn of the century. In elegant prose, he draws on the Old Testament story of David and Jonathan and writes of the friendship and love between two boys--one a sharecropper's son and the other the son of the landlord--and the complications that arise when the father of one of the boys falls in love with his son's friend. Part of a very small body of gay literature of the period, The Bitterweed Path does not sensationalize homosexual love but instead portrays sexuality as a continuum of human behavior. The result is a book that challenges many assumptions about gay representation in the first half of the twentieth century.
Author : Harry Goulbourne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521400848
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Ethnicity and Nationalism in Post-Imperial Britain written by Harry Goulbourne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-08-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of how post-imperial Britain has come to define the national community in terms of ethnic affinity.
Author : Cheryl L. A. King
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 159244234X
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (924 download)
Download or read book Michael Manley and Democratic Socialism written by Cheryl L. A. King and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2003-05-09 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Audrey Allwood
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030545989
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Belonging in Brixton written by Audrey Allwood and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-19 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a unique perspective on elderly working-class West Indian migrants in the UK, particularly examining how they negotiate their sense of belonging. Utilizing the life span gaze and including elements of oral history and narrative, this ethnography provides rich insight into the ordinary lives, migratory circumstances, social networks, and interactions with the state as residents in a sheltered housing scheme in Brixton, London. The author further compiles a variety of genealogy charts, providing a uniquely vivid scholarly analysis of the Caribbean migrant experience both in a “place” and through space and time. Ultimately, this work contemplates how communities face change whilst at once developing a local symbolic cultural site, navigating adaptation to new economic and social environments.
Author : Randolph B. Persaud
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791449196
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Counter-Hegemony and Foreign Policy written by Randolph B. Persaud and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-03-29 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that marginalized states and peoples are capable of initiating their own foreign policy agendas.
Author : Michele Harrison
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814736340
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (363 download)
Download or read book King Sugar written by Michele Harrison and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is life like on a sugar plantation at the end of the twentieth century? What will happen if the sugar industry collapses? How do the poverty-stricken cane cutters of rural Jamaica fit into the global economy? And how does sugar make its way from the canefield to our kitchens? The Carribean's history is inseparable from sugar. In Jamaica entire communities depend on the sugar industry, earning a precarious living on old-fashioned plantations. For many the crop even doubles as currency. But as the advanced nations reassess the economic policies that keep sugar alive, time is running out for the island's industry. King Sugar looks at the world sugar business, identifying the key playersproducers, markets and transnational companiesand explaining how the industry works. It explores the economics and politics of trading agreements, the mysteries of the futures market and the technology of sugar production. Based on interviews with traders, buyers and producers, it provides a unique look at the history of this commodity. King Sugar also looks in detail at how ordinary people fit into this global industry. Through interviews with workers on a plantation she provides a vivid picture of producers and the crises they face. The book finally assesses the future of sugar, both in Jamaica and the wider world, and considers the options for those still ruled by "King Sugar."
Author : Higman, B.W.
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9231033603
Total Pages : 1002 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book General History of the Caribbean written by Higman, B.W. and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 1905-06-21 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume looks at the ways historians have written the history of the region, depending upon their methods of interpretation and differing styles of communicating their findings. The chapters discussing methodology are followed by studies of particular themes of historiography. The second half of the volume describes the writing of history in the individual territories, taking into account changes in society, economy and political structure. The final section is a full and detailed bibliography serving not only as a guide to the volume but also as an invaluable reference for the General History of the Caribbcan as a whole.
Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230271200
Total Pages : 1719 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Statesman's Yearbook: 1991-92 written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-29 with total page 1719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Author : Peter L. Patrick
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902729853X
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Urban Jamaican Creole written by Peter L. Patrick and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1999-06-15 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A synchronic sociolinguistic study of Jamaican Creole (JC) as spoken in urban Kingston, this work uses variationist methods to closely investigate two key concepts of Atlantic Creole studies: the mesolect, and the creole continuum. One major concern is to describe how linguistic variation patterns with social influences. Is there a linguistic continuum? How does it correlate with social factors? The complex organization of an urbanizing Caribbean society and the highly variable nature of mesolectal speech norms and behavior present a challenge to sociolinguistic variation theory. The second chief aim is to elucidate the nature of mesolectal grammar. Creole studies have emphasized the structural integrity of basilectal varieties, leaving the status of intermediate mesolectal speech in doubt. How systematic is urban JC grammar? What patterns occur when basilectal creole constructions alternate with acrolectal English elements? Contextual constraints on choice of forms support a picture of the mesolect as a single grammar, variable yet internally-ordered, which has evolved a fine capacity to serve social functions. Drawing on a year’s fieldwork in a mixed-class neighborhood of the capital city, the author (a speaker of JC) describes the speech community’s history, demographics, and social geography, locating speakers in terms of their social class, occupation, education, age, sex, residence, and urban orientation. The later chapters examine a recorded corpus for linguistic variables that are phono-lexical (palatal glides), phonological (consonant cluster simplification), morphological (past-tense inflection), and syntactic (pre-verbal tense and aspect marking), using quantitative methods of analysis (including Varbrul). The Jamaican urban mesolect is portrayed as a coherent system showing stratified yet regular linguistic behavior, embedded in a well-defined speech community; despite the incorporation of forms and constraints from English, it is quintessentially creole in character.
Author : Ken G. Irish-Bramble
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 198451377X
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (845 download)
Download or read book Violence and Power written by Ken G. Irish-Bramble and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-05-02 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence and Power is a collection of original essays written by Dr. Ken G. Irish-Bramble. The essays were all written while the author was a graduate student at NYU. The essays cover a wide range of topics in the field of political science and Caribbean studies. While they are somewhat dated, they each cover timeless topics and provide meaningful insight.
Author : Stephen A. King
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496800397
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book Reggae, Rastafari, and the Rhetoric of Social Control written by Stephen A. King and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who changed Bob Marley’s famous peace-and-love anthem into “Come to Jamaica and feel all right?” When did the Rastafarian fighting white colonial power become the smiling Rastaman spreading beach towels for American tourists? Drawing on research in social movement theory and protest music, Reggae, Rastafari, and the Rhetoric of Social Control traces the history and rise of reggae and the story of how an island nation commandeered the music to fashion an image and entice tourists. Visitors to Jamaica are often unaware that reggae was a revolutionary music rooted in the suffering of Jamaica’s poor. Rastafarians were once a target of police harassment and public condemnation. Now the music is a marketing tool, and the Rastafarians are no longer a “violent counterculture” but an important symbol of Jamaica’s new cultural heritage. This book attempts to explain how the Jamaican establishment’s strategies of social control influenced the evolutionary direction of both the music and the Rastafarian movement. From 1959 to 1971, Jamaica’s popular music became identified with the Rastafarians, a social movement that gave voice to the country’s poor black communities. In response to this challenge, the Jamaican government banned politically controversial reggae songs from the airwaves and jailed or deported Rastafarian leaders. Yet when reggae became internationally popular in the 1970s, divisions among Rastafarians grew wider, spawning a number of pseudo-Rastafarians who embraced only the external symbolism of this worldwide religion. Exploiting this opportunity, Jamaica’s new Prime Minister, Michael Manley, brought Rastafarian political imagery and themes into the mainstream. Eventually, reggae and Rastafari evolved into Jamaica’s chief cultural commodities and tourist attractions.
Author : Anne M. Galvin
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 0826502881
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Sounds of the Citizens written by Anne M. Galvin and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancehall: it's simultaneously a source of raucous energy in the streets of Kingston, Jamaica; a way of life for a group of professional artists and music professionals; and a force of stability and tension within the community. Electronically influenced, relevant to urban Jamaicans, and highly danceable, dancehall music and culture forms a core of popular entertainment in the nation. As Anne Galvin reveals in Sounds of the Citizens, the rhythms of dancehall music reverberate in complicated ways throughout the lives of countless Jamaicans. Galvin highlights the unique alliance between the dancehall industry and community development efforts. As the central role of the state in supporting communities has diminished, the rise of private efforts such as dancehall becomes all the more crucial. The tension, however, between those involved in the industry and those within the neighborhoods is palpable and often dangerous. Amidst all this, individual Jamaicans interact with the dancehall industry and its culture to find their own paths of employment, social identity, and sexual mores. As Sounds of the Citizens illustrates, the world of entertainment in Jamaica is serious business and uniquely positioned as a powerful force within the community.
Author : Don Barker
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 141166292X
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (116 download)
Download or read book The Fear Factor: an Analysis of Crime in Jamaica and the Search for Solutions written by Don Barker and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : IICA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book BIBLIO 2000: IICA Jamaica Library Database written by and published by IICA. This book was released on with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Paxton
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3112420624
Total Pages : 1743 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (124 download)
Download or read book 1988–1989 written by John Paxton and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 1743 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "1988-1989".
