Jamaica Making

Author : Emma Roberts
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781800855472

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Jamaica Making by Emma Roberts Pdf

This book accompanies the first exhibition entirely of Jamaican art to take place in the north-west of the UK. The exhibition, Jamaica Making: The Theresa Roberts Art Collection, is sited at the Victoria Gallery and Museum, Liverpool in 2022, and is a comprehensive presentation of the best of Jamaican art since the 1960s. The Theresa Roberts Art Collection is the private collection of Theresa Roberts, a Jamaican-born businesswoman and philanthropist, who has made the UK her home. This collection offers an important insight into the development of Jamaican art since the country gained independence in 1962. Indeed, the exhibition also acts to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Jamaican independence in 2022. Included in the book are the following: an official welcome from the Prime Minister of Jamaica; an essay by the collector, exhibition donor and philanthropist, Theresa Roberts; an introduction by eminent British-Jamaican art historian, Edward Lucie-Smith; essays by Emma Roberts, the exhibition curator (Liverpool John Moores University), Davinia Gregory-Kameka, writer, educator and researcher (Columbia University, USA) and Sireita Mullings, arts practitioner and visual sociologist (University of Bedfordshire). The final section of the book is the full visual catalogue of the Jamaica Making exhibition – a unique record of this historic exhibition. An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.

Author : Carl Stone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Jamaica
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173023733082

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Power and Policy Making in Jamaica by Carl Stone Pdf

Author : Anneke Jessen,Christopher Vignoles
Publisher : BID-INTAL
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Jamaica
ISBN : 9789507382109

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Jamaica: trade, integration and the quest for growth (Occasional Paper ITD = Documento de Divulgación ITD; n. 30) by Anneke Jessen,Christopher Vignoles Pdf

Author : Gilad James, PhD
Publisher : Gilad James Mystery School
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9788371870002

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Introduction to Jamaica by Gilad James, PhD Pdf

Jamaica is a tropical island nation located in the Caribbean Sea, south of Cuba and west of Haiti. The country is composed of three counties: Cornwall, Middlesex, and Surrey, with Kingston being the capital city. It has a population of approximately 2.7 million people and has a diverse mix of ethnic groups, including African, East Indian, Chinese, and European. Jamaica has a rich and complicated history, having been inhabited by native Arawak and Taino peoples before being colonized by Spain and eventually Britain. The island was a major producer of sugarcane and was heavily reliant on slave labor brought over from Africa. This history has greatly influenced Jamaican culture, which is known for its music, cuisine, and distinct dialect of English known as Jamaican Patois. Despite facing economic struggles and political corruption, Jamaica remains a popular tourist destination, known for its beautiful beaches, lush rainforests, and friendly locals.

Author : Colin A. Palmer
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807829875

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Eric Williams and the Making of the Modern Caribbean by Colin A. Palmer Pdf

Colin Palmer presents a guide to understanding the influential West Indian scholar and politician, Eric Williams.

Author : Gina A. Ulysse
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226841236

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Downtown Ladies by Gina A. Ulysse Pdf

The Caribbean “market woman” is ingrained in the popular imagination as the archetype of black womanhood in countries throughout the region. Challenging this stereotype and other outdated images of black women, Downtown Ladies offers a more complex picture by documenting the history of independent international traders—known as informal commercial importers, or ICIs—who travel abroad to import and export a vast array of consumer goods sold in the public markets of Kingston, Jamaica. Both by-products of and participants in globalization, ICIs operate on multiple levels and, since their emergence in the 1970s, have made significant contributions to the regional, national, and global economies. Gina Ulysse carefully explores how ICIs, determined to be self-employed, struggle with government regulation and other social tensions to negotiate their autonomy. Informing this story of self-fashioning with reflections on her own experience as a young Haitian anthropologist, Ulysse combines the study of political economy with the study of individual and collective identity to reveal the uneven consequences of disrupting traditional class, color, and gender codes in individual societies and around the world.

Author : British Information Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Jamaica
ISBN : IND:30000115851846

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Jamaica by British Information Services Pdf

Author : Terry Lacey
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Jamaica
ISBN : 0719006333

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Violence and Politics in Jamaica, 1960-70 by Terry Lacey Pdf

Author : Arnold Bertram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Jamaica
ISBN : 976958357X

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N. W. Manley and the Making of Modern Jamaica by Arnold Bertram Pdf

Author : Amber Wilson
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 077879332X

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Jamaica by Amber Wilson Pdf

Text and photos show how Jamaicans celebrate holidays and festivals, using art, music, and dance.

Author : Audra A. Diptee
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813042992

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From Africa to Jamaica by Audra A. Diptee Pdf

Rich with historical sketches of the life and experiences of slaves in Africa, on slave ships, and in Jamaica, this volume illustrates the way enslaved Africans lived and helped to shape Jamaican society in the three decades before British abolition of the slave trade. Audra Diptee's in-depth investigations reveal unexpected insights into the demographics of those captured in Africa and legally transported on British slave ships. For example, there is a commonly held belief that slave traders had a preference for adult males. In fact, the practicalities of slave raiding meant that women, children, and large groups of the elderly were particularly vulnerable during raids and were more often captured and made available for sale in the Caribbean. From Africa to Jamaica offers a new look at the Atlantic slave trade in its final years, fleshing out the historical portrait of the African men, women, and children who were sold in Jamaica and were thus among the last of the enslaved to put their stamp on Jamaican society. There is no comparable study that takes such a comprehensive approach, looking at both the African and Jamaican sides of the trade system.

Author : Christine Walker
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469655277

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Jamaica Ladies by Christine Walker Pdf

Jamaica Ladies is the first systematic study of the free and freed women of European, Euro-African, and African descent who perpetuated chattel slavery and reaped its profits in the British Empire. Their actions helped transform Jamaica into the wealthiest slaveholding colony in the Anglo-Atlantic world. Starting in the 1670s, a surprisingly large and diverse group of women helped secure English control of Jamaica and, crucially, aided its developing and expanding slave labor regime by acquiring enslaved men, women, and children to protect their own tenuous claims to status and independence. Female colonists employed slaveholding as a means of advancing themselves socially and financially on the island. By owning others, they wielded forms of legal, social, economic, and cultural authority not available to them in Britain. In addition, slaveholding allowed free women of African descent, who were not far removed from slavery themselves, to cultivate, perform, and cement their free status. Alongside their male counterparts, women bought, sold, stole, and punished the people they claimed as property and vociferously defended their rights to do so. As slavery's beneficiaries, these women worked to stabilize and propel this brutal labor regime from its inception.

Author : Belinda Edmondson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0822322633

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Making Men by Belinda Edmondson Pdf

Colonialism left an indelible mark on writers from the Caribbean. Many of the mid-century male writers, on the eve of independence, looked to England for their models. The current generation of authors, many of whom are women, have increasingly looked--and relocated--to the United States. Incorporating postcolonial theory, West Indian literature, feminist theory, and African American literary criticism, Making Men carves out a particular relationship between the Caribbean canon--as represented by C. L. R. James and V. S. Naipaul, among others--and contemporary Caribbean women writers such as Jean Rhys, and Jamaica Kincaid, Paule Marshall, and Michelle Cliff, who now live in the United States. Discussing the canonical Caribbean narrative as it reflects national identity under the domination of English cultural authority, Belinda Edmondson focuses particularly on the pervasive influence of Victorian sensibilities in the structuring of twentieth-century national identity. She shows that issues of race and English constructions of masculinity not only are central to West Indian identity but also connect Caribbean authorship to the English literary tradition. This perspective on the origins of West Indian literary nationalism then informs Edmondson's search for female subjectivity in current literature by West Indian women immigrants in America. Making Men compares the intellectual exile of men with the economic migration of women, linking the canonical male tradition to the writing of modern West Indian women and exploring how the latter write within and against the historical male paradigm in the continuing process of national definition. With theoretical claims that invite new discourse on English, Caribbean, and American ideas of exile, migration, race, gender identity, and literary authority, Making Men will be informative reading for those involved with postcolonial theory, African American and women's studies, and Caribbean literature.

Author : Anthony Harriott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9766401446

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Understanding Crime in Jamaica by Anthony Harriott Pdf

Examines the growing crime problem in Jamaica and explores the relationship between crime, politics and the economy and analyses the impact of crime on tourism. The articles collected here provide a comprehensive analysis of the causes, consequences and control of crime, and they point the way to solving Jamaica's escalating criminal activity.

Author : Nick Davis
Publisher : Kuperard
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781857335651

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Jamaica - Culture Smart! by Nick Davis Pdf

Laid back, sun-drenched tropical paradise, or hotbed of drug-related crime and violence? Neither stereotype is true. Jamaica suffers from a PR problem, created largely by tabloid headlines written thousands of miles away. The reality is more complex and more fascinating. Despite its small size, Jamaica punches above its weight. Its footprints in sport and music are, like its people, larger than life. It is one of the few countries to have its own soundtrack— mento, ska, and reggae are popular around the world. The University of the West Indies campus at Mona is a regional source of excellence. Jamaicans have a fire that has been hard to douse. It was burning when their forefathers arrived on slave ships, barely alive after the middle passage, and it was there when they fought the British to a standstill in the Maroon Wars. In the English-speaking Caribbean they have a reputation for being brash, but the Jamaicans have a warmth that is unmatched. They are unafraid to talk to strangers, they'll laugh at nearly anything, they'll discuss and debate with passion, and they'll let you know it straight. Despite real economic and social problems, this beautiful and invigorating country regularly ranks among the top five happiest nations in the world in the annual Happy Planet Index. Culture Smart! Jamaica takes you beyond the clichés with a fresh, uniquely well-informed look at of one of the most intriguing countries in the region.