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    1. "Opportunities and Opposition: The Rise of Jamaica's Black Peasantry and the Nature of the Planter Resistance."

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Knox,A. J. G. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    1977
    Published:
    Toronto: University of Toronto Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
    Journal Title Details:
    14(4) : 381-395
    Notes:
    Many factors contributed to the rise of the black peasantry in Jamaica, and this movement flourished transforming a slave society into a prosperous democratic one

    5. Identity and struggle at the margins of the nation-state: the laboring peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Chomsky,Aviva (Author) and Lauria-Santiago,Aldo (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    1998
    Published:
    Durham, NC: Duke University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    404 p, Research on the social history of Central America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean on rural workers, peasants, migrants, and women. Individual essays include discussions of plantation justice in Guatemala, highland Indians in Nicaragua, the effects of foreign corporations in Costa Rica, coffee production in El Salvador, banana workers in Honduras, sexuality and working-class feminism in Puerto Rico, the Cuban sugar industry, and agrarian reform in the Dominican Republic

    6. Jamaica and the New Order, 1827-1847

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Long,Anton V. (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    1956
    Published:
    Mona, Jamaica: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University College of the West Indies
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    167 p

    7. Jamaica, the Blessed Island

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Olivier,Sydney (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    1936
    Published:
    London: Faber & Faber ltd
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    466 p

    9. Role and Limitations of Peasant Co-operatives in Rural Jamaica: The Case of the St. Mary Rural Development Project

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Weis,Tony (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2000
    Published:
    Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Canadian Journal of Development Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    21(3) : 725-751
    Notes:
    The work examines the social and economic conditions of the region and the problems associated in development projects for the area