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The Jamaica reader : history, culture, politics /
"Combining more than one hundred classic and lesser-known texts, The Jamaica Reader presents a panoramic history of the country--from its pre-contact Indigenous origins to the present--to provide an unparalleled look at Jamaica's history, culture, and politics."--
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2021.
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| Colección: | Latin America readers.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. Becoming Jamaica.
- Taíno society / Kit W. Wesler
- Taíno worship / Ramón Pané
- The first European account of Jamaica / Andrés Bernáldez
- A Spanish settler in Jamaica / Pedro de Maçuelo
- The Spanish capital / James Robertson
- Slavery in Spanish Jamaica / Francisco Morales Padrón
- A description of Spanish Jamaica / Francisco Marques de Villalobos
- The economy of Spanish Jamaica / Alonzo de Miranda
- The western design / Don Juan Ramirez
- Mountains of gold turned into dross / Anonymous
- The establishment of Maroon society / Robert Sedgwicke and William Goodson – II. From English conquest to slave society.
- Pirate stronghold / Nuala Zahedieh
- Port Royal destroyed / Anonymous
- White servants / Government of Jamaica
- The rise of slave society / Richard S. Dunn
- African music in Jamaica / Hans Sloane
- A Maroon tradition / collected by Kenneth M. Bilby
- Treaty between the British and the Maroons / Anonymous
- African arrivals / Audra A. Diptee
- Spiritual terror / Vincent Brown
- Two enslaved lives / Trevor Burnard
- Increase and decrease / managers of Haughton Tower Estate
- A free Black poet / Francis Williams
- Jamaica talk / Frederic G. Cassidy
- The War of 1760-1761 / Edward Long
- III. Enlightenment Slavery.
- Creole society / Edward (Kamau) Brathwaite
- Cane and coffee / Robert Charles Dallas
- Women's and men's work under slavery / Lucille Mathurin Mair
- Although a slave me is born and bred / recorded by J.B. Moreton
- Capture and enslavement / Archibald John Monteith
- The Black church / George Liele
- British missionaries / Mary Turner
- The Second Maroon War / representatives of the Trelawney Town Maroons
- Jonkanoo / Michael Scott
- Provision grounds / Sidney Mintz
- The Liberation War of 1831 / Henry Bleby
- Apprenticeship and its conflicts / Diana Paton
- An apprentice's story / James Williams
- Because of 1833 / Andrew Salkey
- IV. Colonial Freedom.
- Free villages / Jean Besson
- Cholera / Samuel Jones
- Black voters / Swithin Wilmot
- Religion after slavery / Hope Waddell
- Indentured workers / Verene Shepherd
- The Morant Bay Rebellion / Gad Heuman
- Dear Lucy / George William Gordon
- Vindicating the race / Rev. R. Gordon
- August Town craze / Frederick S. Sanguinetti
- Anansi and the tiger / Walter Jekyll
- The 1907 earthquake / Dick Chislett
- Traveling from Kingston to Montego Bay / Herbert de Lisser
- V. Jamaica arise.
- Life in rural Jamaica / Lorna Goodison
- An amazing island / W.E.B. Du Bois
- Marcus Garvey comes to the United States / Marcus Garvey
- Jamaica and the Great War / Daily Gleaner
- Returning from war / Glenford Howe
- Self government for Jamaica / W. Adolphe Roberts
- The 1938 Rebellion / Richard Hart
- Remembering the Rebellion / Lucius Watson
- Now we know / Roger Mais
- Cookshop culture / Planters' Punch
- My mother who fathered me / Edith Clarke
- The origins of dreadlocks / Barry Chevannes
- Pleasure Island / Esther Chapman
- Hurricane Charlie / Spotlight
- Jamaican East Indians / Laxmi and Ajai Mansingh
- Blackness and beauty / Rochelle Rowe
- Chinese Jamaica / Easton Lee
- Bauxite / Sherry Keith and Robert Girling
- The West Indies Federation / Michele A. Johnson
- Rastafari and the new nation / Michael G. Smith, Roy Augier, and Rex Nettleford
- VI. Independence and After.
- A date with destiny / Daily Gleaner
- The meaning of independence / Government of Jamaica
- The assets we have / Norman Washington Manley
- Rastafari and the Coral Gardens incident / John Maxwell and Mortimo Togo Desta Planno
- Country boy / The Heptones
- How to be a "face-man" / The Star
- Cancer in West Kingston / Edward Seaga
- Birth of the sound system / Norman C. Stolzoff
- Rudie, oh Rudie! / Garth White
- Revisited / Rupert Lewis
- The visual arts / Anne Walmsley and Stanley Greaves
- Better mus' come / Delroy Wilson
- Bob Marley's fame / Ed McCormack
- Ganja smoking / Daily News
- We are not for sale / Michael Manley
- Zig-zag politics and the IMF / George L. Beckford
- Yesterday/today/tomorrow / Oku Onuora
- Equal rights / Committee of Women for Progress
- A helper's story / Sistren, with Honor Ford Smith
- VII. Jamaica in the age of neoliberalism.
- Nine months of turmoil / Barbara Nelson
- Seaga v. Manley, Carl Stone
- Born fi' dead / Laurie Gunst
- Sunsplash 1984 / Roger Steffens
- Walking jewellery store / Yellowman
- Hurricane story / Olive Senior
- Wild Gilbert / Lloyd Lovindeer
- Showing skin teeth / A. Lynn Bolles
- Slackness / Lady Saw
- Downtown ladies / Gina A. Ulysse
- Jamaica's shame / Thomas Glave
- Woman time now / H.G. Helps
- A wild ride / Robert Lalah
- Skin bleaching / Carolyn Cooper
- Tragedy in Tivoli / W. Earl Witter and Livern Barrett
- The cell phone and the economy of communication / Heather A. Horst and Daniel Miller
- Unsustainable development / Esther Figueroa
- The case for reparations / P.J. Patterson
- These islands of love and hate / Kei Miller
- VIII. Jamaicans in the World.
- In the Canal Zone / Alfred Mitchell S.
- A diaspora story / Lok C.D. Siu and Fernando Jackson
- Going to Cuba / "Man-Boy"
- Tropics in New York / Claude McKay
- Little brown girl / Una Marson
- Colonization in reverse / Louise Bennett
- A farmworker in Florida / Delroy Livingston
- Reggae and possible Africas / Louis Chude-Sokei
- Canadian-Jamaican / Carl E. James and Andrea Davis
- A maid in New York City / Shellee Colen
- My great shun / Mutabaruka
- Homecomers / C.S. Reid
- Return to Jamaica / Emma Brooker
- Things change / Buju Banton
- Jamaica to the world / Ingrid Brown.