Living in Jamaica
Author:
Publisher: Sea to Sea Publications
Published: 2006-12-01
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781597710473
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the cities, famous sites, family life, and celebrations of Jamaica.
Read and Download eBook Full
Author:
Publisher: Sea to Sea Publications
Published: 2006-12-01
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781597710473
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the cities, famous sites, family life, and celebrations of Jamaica.
Author: James C. Riley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-07-18
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780521850476
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA multidisciplinary study that reconstructs Jamaica's rise from low to high life expectancy and explains how that was achieved. Jamaica is one of the small number of countries that has attained a life expectancy nearly matching that in richer countries, despite having a much lower level of per capita income.
Author: M. McLean
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9789768237484
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nikko M Fungchung
Publisher:
Published: 2016-11-07
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780998149738
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnya's World Adventures Book Series, takes young readers on a tour of the world through the eyes of a child. With the help of Anya's magic globe, readers will experience the joys of travel and adventure. The first stop in the series is Jamaica. Join Anya as she learns about the food, language and culture of this beautiful country.
Author: Great Britain. Overseas Development Administration
Publisher:
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 49
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Yvonne Shorter Brown
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Published: 2022-04-01
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 1771125489
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDead Woman Pickney chronicles Yvonne Shorter Brown’s life growing up in Jamaica between 1943 and 1965 and teaching in Canada from 1969. Told with stridency and humour, the stories include both personal experience and history. Taking up the haunting memories of childhood, along with persistent racial marginalization of Black people, both globally and in Canada, the author sets out to construct a narrative that at once explains her own origins in the former slave society of Jamaica and traces the outsider status of Africa and its peoples. The author’s quest to understand the absence of her mother and her mother’s people from her life is at the heart of the narrative. The author struggles through life to discover the identity of her mother in the face of silence from her father’s brutal family. In this updated edition she adds a coda, “finding mother”, constructed from archives, genealogy, letters, and journals. Initially published in 2010, this second edition includes expanded text and a foreword by Sonja Boon, author of What the Oceans Remember.
Author: Cheri Avery Black
Publisher: Booklocker.com
Published: 2019-08
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9781632637093
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis memoir glows with fiery passion as a Jamaican man, striving to lift his sons out of poverty, instantly bonds with a tourist, an older American businesswoman. They face alarming setbacks, cross-cultural prejudices, and politics. With resolute tenacity to their inner truth, they strive to flow with the uplifting island "One Love" vibration.
Author: Diane Austin-Broos
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-10-12
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 1351717324
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Judy Bastyra
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780749663391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocuses on people's everyday lives in Jamaica. This work contains specially commissioned photographs and it features an accessible approach with a lot of information given in extended captions.
Author: Alexia Arthurs
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2018-07-24
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1524799211
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“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