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Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Lovejoy,Robert M. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
1963; December
Published:
Mona, Jamaica: Institute of Social and Economic Research
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Social and Economic Studies
Journal Title Details:
12(4) : 442-58
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Lowenthal,David (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
1957
Published:
Mona, Jamaica: Institute of Social and Economic Research
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Social and Economic Studies
Journal Title Details:
6(4) : 445-501
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Manley,Douglas (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
1963
Published:
Mona, Jamaica: Institute of Social and Economic Research
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Social and Economic Studies
Journal Title Details:
12(1)
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Marshall,Dawn (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
1984
Published:
Mona, Jamaica: Institute of Social and Economic Research
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Social and Economic Studies
Journal Title Details:
33(September) : 63-92
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
McLeod,Donald (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
1969; September
Published:
Mona, Jamaica: Institute of Social and Economic Research
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Social and Economic Studies
Journal Title Details:
18(3) : 254-62
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Mills,G. E. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
1974
Published:
Mona, Jamaica: Institute of Social and Economic Research
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Social and Economic Studies
Journal Title Details:
23(2)
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Nag,Moni (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
1971
Published:
Mona, Jamaica: Institute of Social and Economic Research
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Social and Economic Studies
Journal Title Details:
20(2) : 111-113
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Roberts,George W. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
1955
Published:
Mona, Jamaica: Institute of Social and Economic Research
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Social and Economic Studies
Journal Title Details:
4(3) : 245-288
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Swaby,R. A. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
1974
Published:
Mona, Jamaica: Institute of Social and Economic Research
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Social and Economic Studies
Journal Title Details:
23(2)
Collection:
Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:
Thomas,Deborah A. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Sep 2005
Published:
Jamaica: University of the West Indies
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:
Social and Economic Studies
Journal Title Details:
54(3) : 97-126
Notes:
This essay investigates the key tensions that arise within Jamaica's new cultural policy "Toward Jamaica the Cultural Superstate." The argument presented in the paper is that "culture" is a tricky and potentially dangerous site upon which to hinge national development goals, even though the expansion of cultural industries may well represent a viable and potentially lucrative strategy for economic development. This is because invariably, "culture" cannot do the work policy makers would like it to do, and its invocation within policy spheres usually already signals a kind of developmental distress, a perceived need for retooling through a form of social engineering. In other words, "culture" (in the anthropological sense) reflects and shapes, yet cannot in and of itself solve the most pressing challenges facing Jamaica today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR];