Search Results - "Jamaicans"

Making history happen : Caribbean poetry in America / by Morrison, Derrilyn E.

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Mastery, tyranny, and desire Thomas Thistlewood and his slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican world / by Burnard, Trevor G. (Trevor Graeme)

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The Canada-Caribbean remittance corridor fostering formal remittances to Haiti and Jamaica through effective regulation / by Todoroki, Emiko

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Jamaica's Difficult Subjects : Negotiating Sovereignty in Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Criticism / by Harrison, Sheri-Marie, 1979-

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Red Seas Ferdinand Smith and radical black sailors in the United States and Jamaica / by Horne, Gerald

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Claude McKay's liberating narrative Russian and Anglophone Caribbean literary connections / by Tagirova-Daley, Tatiana A.

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Jamaica's Difficult Subjects : Negotiating Sovereignty in Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Criticism / by Harrison, Sheri-Marie, 1979-

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Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World : Rituals and Remembrances /

Table of Contents: “…Performing pentecostalism : music, identity, and the interplay of Jamaican and African American styles /…”
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Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World : Rituals and Remembrances /

Table of Contents: “…Performing pentecostalism : music, identity, and the interplay of Jamaican and African American styles /…”
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Out of many, one people the historical archaeology of colonial Jamaica /

Table of Contents: “…Cook and Amy Rubenstein-Gottschamer -- The habitus of Jamaican plantation landscapes / James A. Delle -- Excavating the roots of resistance : the significance of Maroons in Jamaican archaeology / Candice Goucher and Kofi Agorsah -- pt. 3. …”
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Critical interventions in Caribbean politics and theory / by Meeks, Brian

Table of Contents: “…Caribbean Questions -- Saving the Soul of the University -- Black Power Forty Years On -- Lloyd Best, "The People," and the Road Not Taken in 1970 -- Cuba from Due South -- Grenada, Once Again : Revisiting the 1983 Crisis and Collapse of the Grenada Revolution -- Part Three. Jamaican Journeys -- Reinventing the Jamaican Political System -- Imagining the Future : Rethinking the Political in Jamaica -- Caribbean Radical Traditions and the Turn in the Jamaican Moment -- The Dudus Events in Jamaica and the Future of Caribbean Politics -- Jamaica on the Cusp of Fifty : Whither Nationalism and Sovereignty?…”
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Mahogany the costs of luxury in early America / by Anderson, Jennifer L., 1966-

Table of Contents: “…A new species of elegance -- The gold standard of Jamaican mahogany -- Supplying the Empire -- The bitters and the sweets of trade -- Slavery in the rainforest -- Redefining mahogany in the Early Republic -- Mastering nature and the challenge of mahogany -- Democratizing mahogany and the advent of steam -- An old species of elegance.…”
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Immigration and American popular culture an introduction / by Rubin, Rachel, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Hollywood, 1930 : Jewish gangster masquerade -- Los Angeles, 1943 : zoot suit style, immigrant politics -- Broadway, 1957 : West Side Story and the Nuyorican blues -- Monterey, 1967 : the hippies meet Ravi Shankar -- South Bronx, 1977 : Jamaican migrants, born Jamericans, and global music -- Cyberspace, y2k : giant robots, Asian punks -- Afterword : Chelsea, 2006 ; wandering popular culture.…”
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In a new land a comparative view of immigration / by Foner, Nancy, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…The social construction of race in two immigrant eras -- Immigrants and African Americans -- Transnationalism old and new -- Immigrant women and work, then and now -- Being Black in London and New York : the Caribbean experience -- Place matters : comparative perspectives on the West Indian migrant experience -- Gendered transitions : Jamaican women in New York and London -- How exceptional is New York? …”
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Policing insecurity police reform, security, and human rights in Latin America /

Table of Contents: “…Police reform, security and human rights in Latin America : an introduction / Niels Uildriks -- Recent police reforms in Latin America / Hugo Frühling -- On the long road to demilitarization and professionalization of the police in Brazil / Saima Husain -- Post-war violence and police reform in Guatemala / Marie-Louise Glebbeek -- International police assistance in Jamaica under escalated violence and institutionalized non-integrity / Niels Uildriks -- Police transformation and international cooperation : the Jamaican experience / Anthony Harriott -- Police and judicial reform in Chile / Lucia Dammert -- Police reform in Argentina : public security versus human rights / Mark Ungar -- Policing insecurity and police reform in Mexico City and beyond / Niels Uildriks.…”
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Contemporary Caribbean cultures and societies in a global context

Table of Contents: “…Knight -- Challenges to Caribbean economies in the era of globalization / Helen McBain -- Globalization, the World Bank, and the Haitian economy / Alex Dupuy -- Creolization in Havana: the oldest form of globalization / Antonio Benítez-Rojo -- Showing face: Boxing and nation building in contemporary Puerto Rico / Frances Negrón-Muntaner -- Creolité in the hood: diaspora as source and challenge / Juan Flores -- Glocal spirituality: consumerism and heritage in a Puerto Rican Afro-Latin folk religion / Raquel Romberg -- Women's grass-roots organizations in the Dominican Republic: real and imagined female figures / Valentina Peguero -- Race and politics in Cuba / Aline Helg -- Jamaican reggae and the articulation of social and historical consciousness in musical discourse / Jorge L. …”
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Returning to the source : the final stage of the Caribbean migration circuit /

Table of Contents: “…Bernard -- Sequence of Emigration and return: the Jamaican experience / John Small -- Return migration to Jamaica and Barbados from the United Kingdom in the 1990s: some lessons / Harry Goulbourne.…”
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Black power in the Caribbean /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: New perspectives on black power in the Caribbean / Kate Quinn -- Part I: Black power in Caribbean context / Kate Quinn -- Black power in the postindependence Anglophone Caribbean -- Jamaican black power in the 1960s / Rupert Lewis -- The Abeng newspaper and the radical politics of postcolonial blackness / Anthony Bogues -- The February Revolution as a catalyst for change in Trinidad and Tobago / Brinsley Samaroor -- Secondary decolonization: the black power moment in Barbados, c. 1970 / Richard Drayton -- "Sitting on a volcano": black power in Burnham's Guyana / Kate Quinn -- An organic activist: Eusi Kwayana, Guyana, and global Pan-Africanism / Nigel Westmaas -- Part II: Black power in colonial contexts -- Black power in the political thought of Antigua and Barbuda / Paget Henry -- I & I shot the sheriff: black power and decolonization in Bermuda (1968-1977) / Quito Swan -- Youth responses to discriminatory practices: the free beach movement, 1970-1975 / Derick Hendricks -- Black power, popular revolt, and decolonization in the Dutch Caribbean / Gert Oostindie -- Conclusion: Black power forty years on: an introspection / Brian Meeks.…”
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Reading other-wise socially engaged biblical scholars reading with their local communities /

Table of Contents: “…West -- "Ordinary" reading in "extraordinary" times: a Jamaican love story / Stephen C.A. Jennings -- Who was Hagar? …”
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Insurgent Testimonies : Witnessing Colonial Trauma in Modern and Anglophone Literature / by Rizzuto, Nicole M.

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