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Author : Elsa Leo-Rhynie
Publisher : Grace Kennedy Foundation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Jamaican Family written by Elsa Leo-Rhynie and published by Grace Kennedy Foundation. This book was released on 1993 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jennifer O'Sullivan-Sirjue
Publisher : Arawak Publications
ISBN 13 : 9789768189486
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (894 download)
Download or read book Researching Your Jamaican Family written by Jennifer O'Sullivan-Sirjue and published by Arawak Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Archer Melville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789768286246
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (862 download)
Download or read book Lost Stitches written by Daniel Archer Melville and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost Stitches is a remarkable book that's part family memoir - full of family intrigue and heartbreak - part American history, part romance, and part love-letter to Jamaica. Told in a heartfelt yet humble, candid and relatable way, Danny recounts the
Author : Daniel Livesay
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469634449
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Children of Uncertain Fortune written by Daniel Livesay and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By tracing the largely forgotten eighteenth-century migration of elite mixed-race individuals from Jamaica to Great Britain, Children of Uncertain Fortune reinterprets the evolution of British racial ideologies as a matter of negotiating family membership. Using wills, legal petitions, family correspondences, and inheritance lawsuits, Daniel Livesay is the first scholar to follow the hundreds of children born to white planters and Caribbean women of color who crossed the ocean for educational opportunities, professional apprenticeships, marriage prospects, or refuge from colonial prejudices. The presence of these elite children of color in Britain pushed popular opinion in the British Atlantic world toward narrower conceptions of race and kinship. Members of Parliament, colonial assemblymen, merchant kings, and cultural arbiters--the very people who decided Britain's colonial policies, debated abolition, passed marital laws, and arbitrated inheritance disputes--rubbed shoulders with these mixed-race Caribbean migrants in parlors and sitting rooms. Upper-class Britons also resented colonial transplants and coveted their inheritances; family intimacy gave way to racial exclusion. By the early nineteenth century, relatives had become strangers.
Author : Maisy Card
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982117443
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book These Ghosts Are Family written by Maisy Card and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PEN/Hemingway Award For Debut Novel Finalist Shortlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A “rich, ambitious debut novel” (The New York Times Book Review) that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures over generations, in the tradition of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. Stanford Solomon’s shocking, thirty-year-old secret is about to change the lives of everyone around him. Stanford has done something no one could ever imagine. He is a man who faked his own death and stole the identity of his best friend. Stanford Solomon is actually Abel Paisley. And now, nearing the end of his life, Stanford is about to meet his firstborn daughter, Irene Paisley, a home health aide who has unwittingly shown up for her first day of work to tend to the father she thought was dead. These Ghosts Are Family revolves around the consequences of Abel’s decision and tells the story of the Paisley family from colonial Jamaica to present-day Harlem. There is Vera, whose widowhood forced her into the role of a single mother. There are two daughters and a granddaughter who have never known they are related. And there are others, like the houseboy who loved Vera, whose lives might have taken different courses if not for Abel Paisley’s actions. This “rich and layered story” (Kirkus Reviews) explores the ways each character wrestles with their ghosts and struggles to forge independent identities outside of the family and their trauma. The result is a “beguiling…vividly drawn, and compelling” (BookPage, starred review) portrait of a family and individuals caught in the sweep of history, slavery, migration, and the more personal dramas of infidelity, lost love, and regret.
Author : Fara Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789768167910
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (679 download)
Download or read book Family Law in Jamaica written by Fara Brown and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christine Barrow
Publisher : Markus Wiener Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Family in the Caribbean written by Christine Barrow and published by Markus Wiener Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A review of the literature on the family, household and conjugal unions in the Caribbean. It is constructed around themes prominent in family studies: definitions of the family, plural and Creole society, social structure, gender roles and relationships, methodology, history, and social change.
Author : Edith C. Clarke
Publisher : University of the West Indies Press
ISBN 13 : 9789766400408
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (4 download)
Download or read book My Mother who Fathered Me written by Edith C. Clarke and published by University of the West Indies Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This expanded new edition of Edith Clarke's groundbreaking work, My Mother Who Fathered Me includes material taken from her personal collection in the Jamaican archives, published reviews of the earlier edition and a foreword by Rex Nettleford.
Author : Lorna Goodison
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062292226
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)
Download or read book From Harvey River written by Lorna Goodison and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Being introduced to the cast of ‘From Harvey River’ is like sitting down at the family dining table. You’ll stay for the day then on into the evening as each new character pulls up a chair. You could not be in better company.” — New York Times Book Review “Goodison’s memoir reaches back over generations to evoke the mythic power of childhood, the magnetic tug of home, and the friction between desire and duty that gives life its unexpected jolts.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) “[A] loving memoir.” — New York Times Book Review Paperback Row
Author : Roger Steffens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984978175
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (781 download)
Download or read book The Family Acid written by Roger Steffens and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-31 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of color photographs taken over a period of decades, Feb. 1968 - July 1998, with descriptions by Roger Steffens and afterwords by Kate and Devon Steffens.
Author : Alecia McKenzie
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617758957
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)
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.
Author : Leonard Archie Wilson
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1644265214
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (442 download)
Download or read book A Jamaican Family's Saga 2 written by Leonard Archie Wilson and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Jamaican Family’s Saga 2 By: Leonard Archie Wilson A Jamaican Family’s Saga 2 is a continuation and climax of A Jamaican Family’s Saga, the original work by Leonard Archie Wilson, a fictionalized biography of the life of Althea Ulrica Richardson, his actual mother. The matriarch is portrayed by Ulrica Richards, from her birth to her death. The story resurrects a true incident in the life of Althea. In the 1940s in Jamaica, her youngest brother, Real, was either murdered or accidentally devoured by sharks off the coast of the island. In the fictionalized account, one of her sons and his wife pull off a Macmillan and Wife style investigation to almost solve this seventy-two-year-old mystery.
Author : Alexia Arthurs
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 1524799211
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)
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
Author : Patricia Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789766408367
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Masculinity and Fathering in Jamaica written by Patricia Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do many Jamaican men acknowledge the importance of love, but also believe that men have the right to physically discipline their partners? How far does fathering become a journey of personal self-development? What happens to "outside children" when the father also has children at home? Why do fathers believe that they must toughen their sons? These are some of the questions which are carefully explored in this groundbreaking study of Jamaican fathers. The study departs from the tradition of Caribbean family research in which the focus has usually been placed on women and on households and instead gives men the opportunity to speak for themselves. Unlike the familiar emphasis on low-income households, this new study interviewed men across a range of social classes and within different community contexts. As a result, the impact of harsh economic conditions is unmistakable in limiting the ability of Jamaican men to translate their fathering commitment into active and continuing involvement. Across social classes and communities, Jamaican men share a common cultural conception of what is required to be a good father. However, they are also tied to definitions of hegemonic masculinity which emphasize male dominance and virility, so that domestic conflict may be inevitable, and men's aspirations to be good fathers may become imperilled. Given the existence of these countervailing values, there is a struggle to find a reasonable fit. The study concludes that it is possible for Jamaican men to be good fathers but bad husbands.
Author : Nikko M Fungchung
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998149738
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (497 download)
Download or read book Anya Goes to Jamaica written by Nikko M Fungchung and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anya's World Adventures Book Series, takes young readers on a tour of the world through the eyes of a child. With the help of Anya's magic globe, readers will experience the joys of travel and adventure. The first stop in the series is Jamaica. Join Anya as she learns about the food, language and culture of this beautiful country.
Author : Ross Kenneth Urken
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789768286048
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (86 download)
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:
Author : Niamh O'Brien
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1481770772
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (817 download)
Download or read book Black Irish White Jamaican written by Niamh O'Brien and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: O'Brien documents the true story of her family's move in 1951 from their native homeland in search of adventure and opportunity on the shores of exotic Jamaica. The political climate in Jamaica through the 1970s and 1980s eventually forces them to escape and seek safety in the United States.
