Women Of Jamaica Come Forward And Play Your Part
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Women Of Jamaica Come Forward And Play Your Part
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
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The Jamaica Reader
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Author : Diana Paton
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2021-04-30
The Jamaica Reader written by Diana Paton and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-30 with History categories.
From Miss Lou to Bob Marley and Usain Bolt to Kamala Harris, Jamaica has had an outsized reach in global mainstream culture. Yet many of its most important historical, cultural, and political events and aspects are largely unknown beyond the island. The Jamaica Reader presents a panoramic history of the country, from its precontact indigenous origins to the present. Combining more than one hundred classic and lesser-known texts that include journalism, lyrics, memoir, and poetry, the Reader showcases myriad voices from over the centuries: the earliest published black writer in the English-speaking world; contemporary dancehall artists; Marcus Garvey; and anonymous migrant workers. It illuminates the complexities of Jamaica's past, addressing topics such as resistance to slavery, the modern tourist industry, the realities of urban life, and the struggle to find a national identity following independence in 1962. Throughout, it sketches how its residents and visitors have experienced and shaped its place in the world. Providing an unparalleled look at Jamaica's history, culture, and politics, this volume is an ideal companion for anyone interested in learning about this magnetic and dynamic nation.
Contested Bodies
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Author : Sasha Turner
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2017-05-05
Contested Bodies written by Sasha Turner and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-05 with History categories.
It is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in female slaves' reproductive health after the British government banned the importation of Africans into its West Indian colonies in 1807. However, as Sasha Turner shows in this illuminating study, for almost thirty years before the slave trade ended, Jamaican slaveholders and doctors adjusted slave women's labor, discipline, and health care to increase birth rates and ensure that infants lived to become adult workers. Although slaves' interests in healthy pregnancies and babies aligned with those of their masters, enslaved mothers, healers, family, and community members distrusted their owners' medicine and benevolence. Turner contends that the social bonds and cultural practices created around reproductive health care and childbirth challenged the economic purposes slaveholders gave to birthing and raising children. Through powerful stories that place the reader on the ground in plantation-era Jamaica, Contested Bodies reveals enslaved women's contrasting ideas about maternity and raising children, which put them at odds not only with their owners but sometimes with abolitionists and enslaved men. Turner argues that, as the source of new labor, these women created rituals, customs, and relationships around pregnancy, childbirth, and childrearing that enabled them at times to dictate the nature and pace of their work as well as their value. Drawing on a wide range of sources—including plantation records, abolitionist treatises, legislative documents, slave narratives, runaway advertisements, proslavery literature, and planter correspondence—Contested Bodies yields a fresh account of how the end of the slave trade changed the bodily experiences of those still enslaved in Jamaica.
Sweet Home Jamaica
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Author : Claudette Beckford-Brady
language : en
Publisher: Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Pu
Release Date : 2007-05
Sweet Home Jamaica written by Claudette Beckford-Brady and has been published by Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Pu this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05 with Fiction categories.
Michelle Freeman was born in Jamaica but grew up in England. After discovering that her father's wife Mavis, is not her biological mother, she tries to locate her real mother and in doing so discovers the island of her birth, and a large extended maternal family. In volume 2 the story moves into the 1980s and Michelle has become a young woman with ambitions of becoming a famous writer and to live in Jamaica, her homeland.
A Brief History Of Seven Killings Booker Prize Winner
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Author : Marlon James
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2014-10-02
A Brief History Of Seven Killings Booker Prize Winner written by Marlon James and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-02 with Fiction categories.
Winner of the Booker Prize One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century One of Entertainment Weekly’s Top 10 Books of the Decade One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years A “thrilling, ambitious . . . intense” (Los Angeles Times) novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s, from the author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf In A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James combines brilliant storytelling with his unrivaled skills of characterization and meticulous eye for detail to forge an enthralling novel of dazzling ambition and scope. On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert to ease political tensions in Kingston, seven gunmen stormed the singer’s house, machine guns blazing. The attack wounded Marley, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Little was officially released about the gunmen, but much has been whispered, gossiped and sung about in the streets of West Kingston. Rumors abound regarding the assassins’ fates, and there are suspicions that the attack was politically motivated. A Brief History of Seven Killings delves deep into that dangerous and unstable time in Jamaica’s history and beyond. James deftly chronicles the lives of a host of unforgettable characters – gunmen, drug dealers, one-night stands, CIA agents, even ghosts – over the course of thirty years as they roam the streets of 1970s Kingston, dominate the crack houses of 1980s New York, and ultimately reemerge into the radically altered Jamaica of the 1990s. Along the way, they learn that evil does indeed cast long shadows, that justice and retribution are inextricably linked, and that no one can truly escape his fate. Gripping and inventive, shocking and irresistible, A Brief History of Seven Killings is a mesmerizing modern classic of power, mystery, and insight.
A Selected Bibliography Of Materials And Resources On Women In The Caribbean Available At Wand S Research And Documentation Centre
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Author : Diana Inniss
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
A Selected Bibliography Of Materials And Resources On Women In The Caribbean Available At Wand S Research And Documentation Centre written by Diana Inniss and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Women categories.
For The Record
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Author : Eva Isaacs Marchioness of Reading
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
For The Record written by Eva Isaacs Marchioness of Reading and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Women In Jamaican Music
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Author : Heather Augustyn
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2020-05-21
Women In Jamaican Music written by Heather Augustyn and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-21 with Music categories.
As the ubiquitous Jamaican musician Bob Marley once famously sang, "half the story has never been told." This rings particularly true for the little-known women in Jamaican music who comprise significantly less than half of the Caribbean nation's musical landscape. This book covers the female contribution to Jamaican music and its subgenres through dozens of interviews with vocalists, instrumentalists, bandleaders, producers, deejays and supporters of the arts. Relegated to marginalized spaces, these pioneering women fought for their claim to the spotlight amid oppressive conditions to help create and shape Jamaica's musical heritage.
Dignity Women And Immigration Detention
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Author : Alice Gerlach
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-12-30
Dignity Women And Immigration Detention written by Alice Gerlach and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-30 with Social Science categories.
This book explores the experience of immigration enforcement for women who have been detained in immigration detention in the UK. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with women who have been in immigration detention centres, Dignity, Women, and Immigration Detention demonstrates how immigration detention violates women’s sense of dignity and in doing so, causes women to suffer pains that are incongruent with the administrative purpose of immigration removal centres. The women interviewed were either detained in an Immigration Removal Centre, had spent time in this centre before being released into the UK community, or had been removed to Jamaica following time in immigration detention. This book argues that the current system used by the UK government is unfit for purpose and damaging to many of those who are ensnared within it. In examining dignity violation, lack of autonomy and diminishment, the book also considers possible alternatives to the current practice of incarceration and what can be done to alleviate the harms that are currently inflicted on women during the process of immigration enforcement in the UK. An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students, scholars, and practitioners in criminology, sociology, law, social policy, and all those interested in listening to the unheard voices of detained women.
Fear Of Black Consciousness
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Author : Lewis R. Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2022-01-11
Fear Of Black Consciousness written by Lewis R. Gordon and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-11 with Philosophy categories.
'Important . . . powerful . . . . an explanation of why Black protest is such a dangerous prospect to the white power structure' Kehinde Andrews, Guardian Where is the path to racial justice? In this ground-breaking book, philosopher Lewis R. Gordon ranges over history, art and pop culture - from ancient African languages to the film Get Out - to show why the answer lies not just in freeing Black bodies from the fraud of white supremacy, but in freeing all of our minds. Building on the influential work of Frantz Fanon and W. E. B. Du Bois, Fear of Black Consciousness is a vital contribution to our conversations on racial politics, identity and culture. 'Expansive . . . reminds us that the ultimate aim of Black freedom quests is, indeed, universal liberation' Angela Y. Davis