Watson, J.A. Scott (author) and Hobbs, May Elliot (author)
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
1937
Published:
UK: Selwyn and Blount, Paternoster House, London.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25141
Notes:
287 pages., Chapter 10, The Press and the Pilgrims," describes the role of the agricultural press in the United Kingdom during the 1800s into the early 1900s and introduces some prominent agricultural writers/journalists of that period. Among them: Arthur Young, five Macdonalds (William, James, Alexander, Charles, Sandy), Archibald MacNeilage, John Chalmers Morton, James Caird, Philip Pusey, Rider Haggard, A.D. Hall.
At the beginning of the twentieth century there was a brief period of imperialist rhetoric among the Canadian business elite, the bankers of Toronto and Montreal in particular, who argued the benefits of an annexationist policy for the British West Indies to complement their deepening financial links to the Caribbean region.
Thirty British black Caribbean graduate employees were interviewed about how and when they experienced their ethnic identity at work. The findings demonstrated that increased salience in ethnic identity was experienced in two key ways: through 'ethnic assignation' (a 'push' towards ethnic identity) and 'ethnic identification' (a 'pull' towards ethnic identity).
A brief overview of London's carnival and its beginnings in the late 1950s. Claudia Jones committed herself to both the culture and political underpinning of Caribbean carnival when she founded the event. London's West Indian community embraced carnival as an important source of celebration and cultural identity in the face of racist intimidation in Britain. The essay explores various difficulties that black British artists face gaining recognition, particularly those who work in carnival.
How do people respond to the news that they are HIV positive? To date, there have been few published qualitative studies of HIV diagnosis experiences, and none focusing on Caribbean people. Twenty-five HIV-positive Caribbean people in London, UK, related their diagnosis experience and its immediate aftermath in semi-structured interviews. Diagnosis with HIV caused profound shock and distress to participants, as they associated the disease with immediate death and stigmatisation. The respondents struggled with biographical disruption, the radical disjuncture between life before and after diagnosis, which led them into a state of liminality, as they found themselves betwixt and between established structural and social identities. Respondents were faced with multifaceted loss: of their known self, their present life, their envisioned future and the partner they had expected to play a role in each of these. A minority of accounts suggest that the way in which healthcare practitioners delivered the diagnosis intensified the participants' distress
