African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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253 p, This text sets out to recapture the Creole speech of early Jamaican society by analyzing rare 18th-century documents in their socio-historical contexts.
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.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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1 microfiche, This volume is a record of over 2,000 little known manuscript sources for the study of the West Indies and its history. The major focus is on the collections of the Nation Library of Jamaica, and over 1,280 entries represent that collection.;
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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320 p, "Trevor Burnard's Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire is a detailed study based on a rather unusual and exhaustive diary of an English migrant who becomes a small slaveholder in eighteenth-century Jamaica. It probably contains more information than any single source on Jamaican society and on slaves and slavery, and provides many important insights into the lives of slaves and of whites. Given the subject and the materials, this book will be of interest to all concerned with the study of slavery as well as scholars of the Caribbean and of British Caribbean history." (Stanley L. Engerman, University of Rochester )
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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186 p., Examines the language, religion, music and soil organization of the Jamaican people to reveal the strong cultural continuities with Africa - and the origins of the new cultural forms and political movements, such as Garveyism and Rastafarianism.
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302 p, Contents: Paradise Island -- Domination and resistance in Jamaican history -- Ethiopianism in Jamaica -- Beliefs, rituals, and symbols -- An ambivalent routinization -- Dissonance and consonance -- After Selassie : the Rastafarians since 1975 -- Where go the Rastafarians?
