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282 p, A popular exposition of the theology of the Rastafarians. Attempts to allow the Rasta to explain their doctrines in their own words, examining all key doctrines in different chapters.
Mona, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press
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168 p., Provides an accessible account of a poorly understood aspect of Jamaican popular culture. It explores the socio-political meanings of Jamaica's dancehall culture. In particular, the book gives an account of the power relations within the dancehall and between the dancehall and the wider Jamaican society.
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238 p, A reaffirmation of the validity of that persistent quest by the Jamaican and Caribbean people for place and purpose in a globalised world of continuous change. In post-colonial societies like Jamaica, the issue of cultural identity is as important as political independence and economic self-sufficiency. Rex Nettleford goes further by declaring that cultural identity is as fundamental a reality as food, shelter, clothing and job opportunities and is not a mere abstract preoccupation. For this reason, cultural ‘action’ is central to effective social change. Caribbean Cultural Identity analyses and illustrates the dynamics of cultural evolution in the Caribbean. Nettleford focuses on the problems of identity, particularly as it relates to cultural pluralism and Eurocentricity and describes in detail the role that the performing arts have played in shaping the general development of Jamaica as well as the Caribbean in general.
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223 p., "This collection is wide-ranging, moving from the Caribbean (Jamaica in particular) to Cambridge, England, and from poetry to sex to discrimination." -Library Journal
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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.
Mona, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press
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240p., Contents: Introduction : downtown stirs -- The Henry Rebellion, counter-hegemony and Jamaican democracy -- NUFF at the cusp of an idea : grassroots guerrillas and the politics of the seventies in Trinidad and Tobago -- The harder dragon : resistance in Earl Lovelace's Dragon can't dance and Michael Thelwell's Harder they come -- Carl Stone : political science as people's tribune -- Remembering Michael Manley : 1924-1997 -- Careening on the edge of the abyss : driving, hegemony and the rule of law in Jamaica -- Conclusion : the Caribbean Left at century's end.
Mintz,Sidney W. (Author) and Hall,Douglas (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1970;1960
Published:
New Haven: Human Relations Area Files Press
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26 p, Reprint of the 1960 ed. published by Yale University Press which was issued as Yale University publications in anthropology ; no. 57./ Yale University publications in anthropology ; nos. 57-64 also orig. pub. and reprinted under collective title Papers in Caribbean anthropology. Compiled by Sidney W. Mintz./ Bound with Yale University. Department of Anthropology. Yale University publications in anthropology ; nos. 58-64./ Includes bibliographical references (p. 24-26).
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238 p, A reaffirmation of the validity of that persistent quest by the Jamaican and Caribbean people for place and purpose in a globalised world of continuous change. In post-colonial societies like Jamaica, the issue of cultural identity is as important as political independence and economic self-sufficiency. Rex Nettleford goes further by declaring that cultural identity is as fundamental a reality as food, shelter, clothing and job opportunities and is not a mere abstract preoccupation. For this reason, cultural ‘action’ is central to effective social change. Caribbean Cultural Identity analyses and illustrates the dynamics of cultural evolution in the Caribbean. Nettleford focuses on the problems of identity, particularly as it relates to cultural pluralism and Eurocentricity and describes in detail the role that the performing arts have played in shaping the general development of Jamaica as well as the Caribbean in general.
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399 p, Ivanhoe Martin arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, looking for work and, after some initial struggles, lands a recording contract as a reggae singer. He records his first song, "The Harder They Come," but after a bitter dispute with a manipulative producer named Hilton, soon finds himself resorting to petty crime in order to pay the bills. He deals marijuana, kills some abusive cops and earns local folk hero status. Meanwhile, his record is topping the charts.
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75 p.
Rastafari: the background of the movement, the emergence and development movement, lifestyle, Rastafari: the background of the movement, the emergence and development movement, lifestyle.
Rastafari: the background of the movement, the emergence and development movement, lifestyle
Rastafari: the background of the movement, the emergence and development movement, lifestyle
Rastafari: the background of the movement, the emergence and development movement, lifestyle
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168 p, Contains: Living with the sugar legacy: life on a Jamaican plantation -- Sugar as a commodity -- Turning cane into cash: sugar as big business -- Sugar and strife: Europe and the evolution of the Caribbean sugar industry -- Sugar in the twentieth century. The king is dead! Long live the king! -- Bitter future? Prospects for change.
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192 p., Argues that postcolonial critics must move beyond an identity-based orthodoxy as they examine problems of sovereignty. Harrison describes what she calls "difficult subjects”--subjects that disrupt essentialized notions of identity as equivalent to sovereignty. She argues that these subjects function as a call for postcolonial critics to broaden their critical horizons beyond the usual questions of national identity and exclusion/inclusion.
Hauser,Mark W. (Author) and Florida museum of natural history (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2008
Published:
Gainesville: University Press of Florida
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269 p., In 18th-century Jamaica, an informal, underground economy existed among enslaved laborers. Utilizes both documentary and archaeological evidence to reveal how slaves practiced their own systematic forms of economic production, exchange, and consumption. Hauser compares the findings from a number of previously excavated sites and presents new analyses that reinterpret these collections in the context of island-wide trading networks
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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.;
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267 p., Draws on in-depth interviews to reveal the personal experiences of those who adopted the religion in the 1950s to 1970s, one generation past the movement's emergence . By talking with these Rastafari elders, he seeks to understand why and how Jamaicans became Rastafari in spite of rampant discrimination, and what sustains them in their faith and identity.
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64 p., Life story of Bob Marley, the artist who made reggae music a worldwide phenomenon and became the first Jamaican musician to attain stardom in the pop music world.
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182 p., Explores the dialogue between two central institutions in African Caribbean life: the church and the dancehall. Beckford highlights how Dub – one of the central features of dancehall culture – can be mobilized as a framework for re-evaluating theology, taking apart doctrine and reconstructing it under the influence of a guiding theme.
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224 p., Marronage - the process of flight by slaves from servitude to establish their own hegemonies in inhospitable or wild territories - had its beginnings in the early 1500s in Hispaniola, the first European settlement in the New World. As fictional personae the maroons continue to weave in and out of oral and literary tales as central and ancient characters of Jamaica's heritage. Identifies the place of Jamaican fiction in the larger regional literature and focuses on its essential themes and strategies of discourse for conveying these themes.
Washington DC: Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, U.S. Agency for International Development
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27 p, Depressed Commodity Prices is about the economic conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean Area. It also expands on export products and their influence to the economy
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1 microfiche, [electronic resource]. Or, general survey of the antient and modern state of that island: with reflections on its situation, settlements, inhabitants, ... In three volumes.
London; Liverpool.: G.G.J. and J. Robinson; J Gore.
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46 p, including some account of their temper and character : with remarks on the importation of slaves from the coast of Africa : in a letter to a physician in England.
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xxvi, 264 : ill., map ; 24 cm, Festive rituals, religious associations, and ethnic reaffirmation of Black Andalusians / Isidoro Moreno -- Presence of Blackness and representation of Jewishness in the Afro-Esmeraldian celebrations of the Semana Santa (Eduador).
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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.
Bigelow,John (Author) and Scholnick, Robert J. (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2006
Published:
Urbana: University of Illinois Press
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Originally published: New York & London : Putnam, 1851., 214 p, After Jamaican slaves were fully emancipated in 1838, the local economy collapsed. Driven by a belief in the innate inferiority of the black race and bolstered by this apparently disastrous Jamaican example, Americans who defended slavery convinced many that emancipation at home would lead to economic and social chaos. Collecting John Bigelow's vivid firsthand reporting, Jamaica in 1850 challenges that widely held view and demonstrates that Jamaica's troubles were caused not by lazy blacks but by the incompetence of absentee white planters operating within an obsolete colonial system.
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187 p, "This book presents an analysis of Caribbean fiscal problems, with particular emphasis on the relationship between high levels of public expenditure and balance of payment problems. The study examines deficit financing, public expenditure growth, and IMF stabilization policies. Other issues raised relate to income distribution and problems of taxation and tax reform. The work focuses on Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago. The economies of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States are also considered." (Amazon.com)
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127 p, Contents: Two people lived in me / C.L.R. James -- As time goes by / Samuel Selvon -- Sandra Street / Michael Anthony -- Bitter choice / Clifford Sealy -- Preacher / George Lamming -- Cricket / Edward Brathwaite -- Reckoning / Jan Carew -- Tacama / Edgar Mittelholzer -- Hurricane / John Hearne -- Visitor / H. Orlando Patterson -- New boy / V.S. Reid -- Death / Mervyn Morris -- House in another country / Neville Dawes.
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2 vols., Subtitled: With remarks upon the cultivation of the sugar-cane, throughout the different seasons of the year, and chiefly considered in a picturesque point of view; also observations and reflections upon what would probably be the consequences of an abolition of the slave-trade, and of the emancipation of the slaves.
Benfield,Warren (Author) and Panadeiros,Monica (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
March 2010
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Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank
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80 p., Jamaica seems to be a puzzling case for economic growth: despite the structural reforms implemented in the last three decades and adequate investment levels, real GDP per capita is roughly the same as in 1970. The disappointing performance of this economy suggests that productive development policies (PDPs), including first-generation reforms, have not been enough to create a better environment for productivity growth. This paper examines the PDPs in Jamaica and concludes that behind the paradox of high investment and low growth of this economy are the "public debt trap" and a highly distortive tax incentive structure to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) and promote exports. Although industrial policy is moving towards a more modern conceptual design, the old schemes seem politically difficult to dismantle.
9 pp., This briefing is submitted by the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition (DSCC), a coalition of over 70 non-governmental organizations concerned about the deep sea. The deep sea is facing large-scale industrial exploitation as mining of the deep seabed for minerals fast becomes reality. Deep seabed mining poses a major threat to the oceans, which are already suffering from a number of pressures including overfishing, pollution, and the effects of climate change.
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512 p, History of Jamaica written after the abolition of slavery by a man imbued with a sense of 18th-century liberalism. It is based on public records and archives, and the mass of pamphlet literature which had been published over the years.
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.
115 p., The Inter-American Development Bank's (IDB) Office of Evaluation and Oversight Office (OVE) is conducting comparative assessments of citizen security in Central America and the Caribbean to better understand what has worked more and less well during project implementation, as well as the reasons for variations in outcomes. Jamaica's Citizen Security and Justice Program (CSJP) is included in the comparative study. In order to improve understanding of CSJP's youth targeted interventions, the OVE commissioned a tracer study of participants in one of these programmes; that is, one administered by Rise Life Management. The objective of the tracer study is to assess to what extent the social services provided by RISE to the youth in volatile communities in Kingston have made a difference in the lives of beneficiaries in terms of employment and satisfaction with life
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282 p., A popular exposition of the theology of the Rastafarians. Attempts to allow the Rasta to explain their doctrines in their own words, examining all key doctrines in different chapters.
Benezet,Anthony (Author), Hodgson,Adam (Author), Cropper,James (Author), Cooper,Thomas (Author), Taylor,John (Author), and Winn,T. S. (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
unknown
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s.l.: s.n.
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Journal Title Details:
5 vols.
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Set contains materials concerning slavery printed between 1774-1845. Contents include: Abstract of the Acts of Parliament for abolishing slave trade and of the orders in council, 1810; Letter to John Bull : to which is added the sketch of a plan for the safe, speedy, and effectual abolition of slavery, 1823; Immediate, not gradual abolition; or, an inquiry into the shortest, safest, and most effectual means of getting rid of West Indian slavery, 1824; Thoughts on the abolition of slavery ; humbly submitted in a letter to the King, 1824; Report of the debate in the House of Commons, June the 16th, 1825 on Dr. Lushington's motion respecting the deportation of Messrs. L.C. Lecesne and J. Escoffery, two persons of colour, from Jamaica, 1825; Account of a shooting excursion on the mountains near Dromilly Estate, in the parish of Trelawny, and Island of Jamaica, 1825.
Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press
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First published in 1961. Original from the University of California., 468 p, Jamaica Talk is a thorough study of the English spoken in Jamaica and, although intended for the general educated reader rather than the linguistic specialist, has a foundation of sound scholarship.
Marable,Manning (Author) and Agard-Jones,Vanessa (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2008
Published:
New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan
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366 p, Includes Brian Meeks's "Reinventing the Jamaican political system"; Joseph Jordan's "Afro-Colombia: a case for pan-African analysis"; Ricardo Rene Laremont and Lisa Yun's "Mutual inspiration: radicals in transnational space: The Havana AfroCubano movement and the Harlem Renaissance: the role of the intellectual in the formation of racial and national identity"; and Asale Angel-Ajani's "Out of chaos: Afro-Colombian peace communities and the realities of war";
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135 p., "Colonie britannique depuis 1655, la Jamaïque obtient son indépendance en 1962. Destination d'un voyage sans retour pour près d'un million d'Africains déportés, l'île est rongée par les cicatrices mémorielles de l'esclavage. Dominée par les Créoles, paupérisée et confrontée à une offre politique nationale inadaptée, la population africaine souffre de l'absence d'une identité noire revendiquée et institutionnalisée. De ce déni de reconnaissance officielle jailliront des mouvements alternatifs, dont la célèbre communauté rastafarienne. Incitant à réfléchir sur les mécanismes d'émergence des groupes identitaires, ce travail met en lumière l'importance de l'histoire et des problématiques de la mémoire dans le processus de construction des identités sociales et souligne le rôle central de la culture dans les luttes de pouvoir"--P. [4] of cover.
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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.
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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.
Earle,William (Author) and Aravamudan,Srinivas (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
Orchard Park, NY: Broadview Press
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255 p, "Three-fingered Jack," the protagonist of this 1800 novel, is based on the escaped slave and Jamaican folk hero Jack Mansong, who was believed to have gained his strength from the Afro-Caribbean religion of obeah, or "obi"--P.[4] of cover
Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press
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252 p., Contents: Arriving, departing and arriving again -- In search of gender trails : archive, folklore and cultural memory -- Laying foundations : a patchwork gendered history of Frankfield -- The rural black Jamaican gender system : case study, Frankfield -- Storying gender through personal narratives -- A metaphor comes to life : service learning, HIV/AIDS and cross-cultural knowledge -- Reflections on the culture-gender spiral.
Gacitúa-Marió,Estanislao (Author), Norton,Andrew (Author), and Georgieva,Sophia V. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Washington, DC: World Bank
Location:
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270 p., Examines the validity of a social guarantees approach as a framework for evaluating, monitoring, and improving the design of social policy. Social guarantees are defined as sets of policy mechanisms that determine citizens' entitlements related to basic services and ensure their fulfillment on the part of the state. Includes Rachel Hannah Nadelman, Lavern Louard-Greaves, and Carol Watson Williams' "Achieving equitable and inclusive citizenship through social policy : the case of Jamaica and St. Kitts and Nevis."
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257 p., Argues that in Jamaica and Haiti, creolization represented a tremendous creative art by enslaved peoples. Creolization was not a passive mixing of cultures, but an effort to create new hybrid institutions and cultural meanings to replace those that had been demolished by enslavement.
