Family And Colour In Jamaica
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Family and Colour in Jamaica
Author | : Fernando Henriques |
Publsiher | : London : Macgibbon & Kee |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : UOM:39015012403351 |
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Children of Uncertain Fortune
Author | : Daniel Livesay |
Publsiher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2018-01-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781469634449 |
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By tracing the largely forgotten eighteenth-century migration of elite mixed-race individuals from Jamaica to Great Britain, Children of Uncertain Fortune reinterprets the evolution of British racial ideologies as a matter of negotiating family membership. Using wills, legal petitions, family correspondences, and inheritance lawsuits, Daniel Livesay is the first scholar to follow the hundreds of children born to white planters and Caribbean women of color who crossed the ocean for educational opportunities, professional apprenticeships, marriage prospects, or refuge from colonial prejudices. The presence of these elite children of color in Britain pushed popular opinion in the British Atlantic world toward narrower conceptions of race and kinship. Members of Parliament, colonial assemblymen, merchant kings, and cultural arbiters--the very people who decided Britain's colonial policies, debated abolition, passed marital laws, and arbitrated inheritance disputes--rubbed shoulders with these mixed-race Caribbean migrants in parlors and sitting rooms. Upper-class Britons also resented colonial transplants and coveted their inheritances; family intimacy gave way to racial exclusion. By the early nineteenth century, relatives had become strangers.
The Plural Society in the British West Indies
Author | : Michael Garfield Smith |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : West Indies, British |
ISBN | : 0520027795 |
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Family Love in the Diaspora
Author | : Mary Chamberlain |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781351520362 |
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Colonial social policy in the British West Indies from the nineteenth century onward assumed that black families lacked morals, structure, and men, a void that explained poverty and lack of citizenship. African-Caribbean families appeared as the mirror opposite of the "ideal" family advocated by the white, colonial authorities. Yet contrary to this image, what provided continuity in the period and contributed to survival was in fact the strength of family connections, their inclusivity and support. This study is based on 150 life story narratives across three generations of forty-five families who originated in the former British West Indies. The author focuses on the particular axes of Caribbean peoples from the former British colonies of Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados, and Great Britain. Divided into four parts, the chapters within each present an oral history of migrant African-Caribbean families, demonstrating the varieties, organization, and dynamics of family through their memories and narratives. It traces the evolution of Caribbean life; argues how the family can be seen as the tool that helps transmit and transform historical mentalities; examines the dynamics of family life; and makes comparisons with Indo-Caribbean families. Above all, this is a story of families that evolved, against the odds of slavery and poverty, to form a distinct Creole form, through which much of the social history of the English-speaking Caribbean is refracted. "Family Love in the Diaspora" offers an important new perspective on African-Caribbean families, their history, and the problems they face, for now and the future. It offers a long overdue historical dimension to the debates on Caribbean families.
Transregional and Transnational Families in Europe and Beyond
Author | : Christopher H. Johnson,David Warren Sabean,Simon Teuscher,Francesca Trivellato |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2011-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780857451842 |
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While the current discussion of ethnic, trade, and commercial diasporas, global networks, and transnational communities constantly makes reference to the importance of families and kinship groups for understanding the dynamics of dispersion, few studies examine the nature of these families in any detail. This book, centered largely on the European experience of families scattered geographically, challenges the dominant narratives of modernization by offering a long-term perspective from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. Paradoxically, “transnational families” are to be found long before the nation-state was in place.
Arise Ye Starvelings
Author | : K. Post |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781461341017 |
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Urban Life in Kingston Jamaica
Author | : Diane Austin-Broos |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2017-10-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781351717328 |
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This book, first published in 1984, recounts the daily life, the politics, religion and leisure pursuits of Jamaicans in working- and middle-class Kingston. The study is based upon the author’s observations of life in Selton Town and Vermount, two neighborhoods of Kingston, between 1971 and 1982. The author analyses the local social conflicts and ideologies, thereby, demonstrating how larger issues of class domination and cultural hegemony pervade neighbourhood life. The study provides a detailed contextual account of the significance of belonging to different classes. It provides a different perspective of Caribbean anthropology combining the techniques of ethnography and political economy.