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2. From Africa to Jamaica: the making of an Atlantic slave society, 1775-1807
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Diptee,Audra A. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Gainesville: University Press of Florida
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 208 p., 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.
3. Life Histories of At-risk Youth in Jamaica
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Moncrieffe,Joy M. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- Jun 2013
- Published:
- Inter-American Development Bank
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Inter-American Development Bank
- Notes:
- 169 p., In order to improve understanding of Jamaica's Citizen Security and Justice Program (CSJP) youth targeted interventions, the Office of Evaluation and Oversight Office (OVE) of the he Inter-American Development Bank's (IDB) commissioned a series of life histories of participants in the programme. The objective of conducting life histories is to inform the complexity of the challenges faced by young people in high-risk and disadvantaged communities in Kingston and St Andrew and to better understand how the programme has intervened in their life trajectories. This report contains transcripts of each taped session. The transcripts are preceded by a summary, which entails the basic socio-demographic data provided by each respondent, as well as the researcher's observations and conclusions.
4. The last enchantment
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Dawes,Neville (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- Leeds: Peepal Tree
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 331 p., Partly autobiographical, this novel looks at the racial politics of the 1950s and 1960s. Ramsay Tull is witness to the black racial discontents and the desire for national independence that are threatening the old colonial order; but when a chance comes to study at Oxford University, he becomes immersed in European literary culture and Marxism. On his return to Jamaica, Ramsay becomes actively involved in radical nationalist politics and begins his second journey, away from his middle-class origins and back to a true appreciation of the Jamaican people.
5. The story of the Jamaican people
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Sherlock,Philip M. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1998
- Published:
- Kingston Jamaica Princeton N.J.: I. Randle Publishers
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 434 p, An overview of Jamaican people in the past; "[Published] in collaboration with the Creative Production and Training Centre Ltd, Kingston, Jamaica."/ Includes bibliographical references (p. 412-419) and indexes.
6. To hell with paradise: a history of the Jamaican tourist industry
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Taylor,Frank (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1993
- Published:
- Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 239 p, In the course of the nineteenth century, Jamaica transformed itself from a pestilence-ridden "white man's graveyard" to a sun-drenched tourist paradise. Deftly combining economics with political and cultural history, Frank Fonda Taylor examines this puzzling about-face and explores the growth of the tourist industry into the 1990s; Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-231) and index.