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    Start Over Collection Black Caribbean Literature (BCL) Subject Term Emigrants and immigration Subject Term Jamaica Journal Title ProQuest Dissertations and Theses

    1. Postwar Jamaican immigrants in Brixton, England 1948-1962: Citizenship, transnationalism and communalism

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Hunter,Virgillo Amando (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2013
    Published:
    New York: Syracuse University
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
    Notes:
    161 p., Today little is known about the lives of the Windrush population and the settlement of Today little is known about the lives of the Windrush population and the settlement of Caribbeans in Brixton, London despite the large body of research on postwar Jamaican immigrants who migrated to England during the immediate postwar era (1948-1962). Previous scholarships on Jamaican immigrants primarily utilized quantitative methodologies to detail this history. However, this study recaptures some of the experiences through recorded documentations and oral narratives.

    2. Voices along the Road

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Woolley,Debra (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2010
    Published:
    Florida: The Florida State University
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
    Notes:
    68 p., A collection of poems that explores the immigrant experience, detailing three worlds that forge a Caribbean-American voice. All three sections of the manuscript examine an identity that comes directly, almost solely, from her surroundings. In the tradition of Louise Bennett, the use of dialect aside, Section I attempts to comprehend a narrow Caribbean existence by scrutinizing a life that is tied to nature, family, and country. Section II sees the world slightly more broadly, but there the speaker is also acutely aware of her identity and the complexity in bridging the two worlds she now finds herself simultaneously occupying, one immediate, the other existing only through reflection.

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