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Author : Elsa Leo-Rhynie
Publisher : Grace Kennedy Foundation
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : IND:30000113691210
Author : Jennifer O'Sullivan-Sirjue,Pansy Robinson
Publisher : Arawak Publications
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Jamaica
ISBN : 9768189487
Author : Fernando Henriques
Publisher : London : Macgibbon & Kee
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173025304000
Author : Lisa Douglass
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1992-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004028416
Yet the kinship practices of the family elite do not merely serve to maintain their position or promote their interests, as some critics have suggested. The elite marry according to enduring cultural dispositions about the proper ordering of color, gender, and class relations, following their sense of what "feels right." In their view, they marry not out of self-interest, but "for love." The Power of Sentiment breaks new ground in ethnographic studies of kinship. Lisa Douglass examines the upper class, a group previously neglected in research on the Caribbean family despite its integral role in the kinship system. She provides fresh insights into what earlier studies termed the color/ class hierarchy by considering how gender both affects what these categories represent and is itself a distinct dimension of the social order. The author also makes a significant contribution to theories of ideology and practice.
Author : Daniel Livesay
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469634449
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.
Author : Judith Blake,J. Mayone Stycos,Kingsley Davis
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039545608
This book illustrates the connections among innovation, policy and law and shows the ways in which the law can work as a key instrument of innovation policy. A cross-disciplinary study, it considers the ways in which the law has accommodated innovation, and the ways in which a legal framework for facilitating and managing new technologies has developed. As well as canvassing broad theoretical issues, the book presents a number of case studies relating to intellectual property, competition and trade and government sponsorship and entrepreneurship. Innovation, Policy and Law examines issues in public and industrial policy from the viewpoint of legal studies. It will therefore be of interest to readers in science and technology studies as well as legal professionals and those in government, the public sector and industry.
Author : Leonard Archie Wilson
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781644265215
A Jamaican Family’s Saga 2 By: Leonard Archie Wilson A Jamaican Family’s Saga 2 is a continuation and climax of A Jamaican Family’s Saga, the original work by Leonard Archie Wilson, a fictionalized biography of the life of Althea Ulrica Richardson, his actual mother. The matriarch is portrayed by Ulrica Richards, from her birth to her death. The story resurrects a true incident in the life of Althea. In the 1940s in Jamaica, her youngest brother, Real, was either murdered or accidentally devoured by sharks off the coast of the island. In the fictionalized account, one of her sons and his wife pull off a Macmillan and Wife style investigation to almost solve this seventy-two-year-old mystery.
Author : Maisy Card
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982117443
PEN/Hemingway Award For Debut Novel Finalist Shortlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A “rich, ambitious debut novel” (The New York Times Book Review) that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures over generations, in the tradition of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. Stanford Solomon’s shocking, thirty-year-old secret is about to change the lives of everyone around him. Stanford has done something no one could ever imagine. He is a man who faked his own death and stole the identity of his best friend. Stanford Solomon is actually Abel Paisley. And now, nearing the end of his life, Stanford is about to meet his firstborn daughter, Irene Paisley, a home health aide who has unwittingly shown up for her first day of work to tend to the father she thought was dead. These Ghosts Are Family revolves around the consequences of Abel’s decision and tells the story of the Paisley family from colonial Jamaica to present-day Harlem. There is Vera, whose widowhood forced her into the role of a single mother. There are two daughters and a granddaughter who have never known they are related. And there are others, like the houseboy who loved Vera, whose lives might have taken different courses if not for Abel Paisley’s actions. This “rich and layered story” (Kirkus Reviews) explores the ways each character wrestles with their ghosts and struggles to forge independent identities outside of the family and their trauma. The result is a “beguiling…vividly drawn, and compelling” (BookPage, starred review) portrait of a family and individuals caught in the sweep of history, slavery, migration, and the more personal dramas of infidelity, lost love, and regret.
Author : Fara Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Domestic relations
ISBN : 9768167912
Author : Daniel Archer Melville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9768286245
Lost Stitches is a remarkable book that's part family memoir - full of family intrigue and heartbreak - part American history, part romance, and part love-letter to Jamaica. Told in a heartfelt yet humble, candid and relatable way, Danny recounts the
Author : Edith C. Clarke,Edith Clarke
Publisher : University of the West Indies Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9766400407
This expanded new edition of Edith Clarke's groundbreaking work, My Mother Who Fathered Me includes material taken from her personal collection in the Jamaican archives, published reviews of the earlier edition and a foreword by Rex Nettleford.
Author : Alexia Arthurs
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524799212
“In these kaleidoscopic stories of Jamaica and its diaspora we hear many voices at once. All of them convince and sing. All of them shine.”—Zadie Smith An O: The Oprah Magazine “Top 15 Best of the Year” • A Well-Read Black Girl Pick Tenderness and cruelty, loyalty and betrayal, ambition and regret—Alexia Arthurs navigates these tensions to extraordinary effect in her debut collection about Jamaican immigrants and their families back home. Sweeping from close-knit island communities to the streets of New York City and midwestern university towns, these eleven stories form a portrait of a nation, a people, and a way of life. In “Light-Skinned Girls and Kelly Rowlands,” an NYU student befriends a fellow Jamaican whose privileged West Coast upbringing has blinded her to the hard realities of race. In “Mash Up Love,” a twin’s chance sighting of his estranged brother—the prodigal son of the family—stirs up unresolved feelings of resentment. In “Bad Behavior,” a couple leave their wild teenage daughter with her grandmother in Jamaica, hoping the old ways will straighten her out. In “Mermaid River,” a Jamaican teenage boy is reunited with his mother in New York after eight years apart. In “The Ghost of Jia Yi,” a recently murdered student haunts a despairing Jamaican athlete recruited to an Iowa college. And in “Shirley from a Small Place,” a world-famous pop star retreats to her mother’s big new house in Jamaica, which still holds the power to restore something vital. Alexia Arthurs emerges in this vibrant, lyrical, intimate collection as one of fiction’s most dynamic and essential authors. Praise for How to Love a Jamaican “A sublime short-story collection from newcomer Alexia Arthurs that explores, through various characters, a specific strand of the immigrant experience.”—Entertainment Weekly “With its singular mix of psychological precision and sun-kissed lyricism, this dazzling debut marks the emergence of a knockout new voice.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “Gorgeous, tender, heartbreaking stories . . . Arthurs is a witty, perceptive, and generous writer, and this is a book that will last.”—Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties “Vivid and exciting . . . every story rings beautifully true.”—Marie Claire
Author : Anthony C. Winkler
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781617751660
After attempting to kill his brother for his inheritance, twenty-three-year-old Hartley Fudges flees from England to Jamaica where he takes a job as an overseer at a sugar cane plantation during the height of the slave trade.
Author : Ross Kenneth Urken
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Child care workers
ISBN : 9768286040
Author : John Hubley,Penny Hubley
Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0822516578
Describes the life of Dorothy, who lives in a small village on the north coast of Jamaica.