Social Life in the Caribbean 1838-1989
Author: Bridget Brereton
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 65
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Social Life in the Caribbean, 1838-1938
Author: Bridget Brereton
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 86
ISBN-13: 9780435983055
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a clear and readable account ofa formative period in the history of the region. The text is divided into two halves: the first half looks at the structure of society and covers issues of race, class and wealth, while the second half looks at four particular aspects of community life - religion, the family, education and festivals...
Jamaica in Slavery and Freedom
Author: Kathleen E. A. Monteith
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9789766401085
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Jamaica's rich history has been the subject of many books, articles and papers. This collection of eighteen original essays considers aspects of Jamaican history not covered in more general histories of the island, and illluminates more recent developments in Jamaican and West Indian history." "Unique in its interdisciplinary approach, the collection emphasizes the relevance of history to everyday life and the development of a national identity, culture and economy. The essays are organized in three sections: Historiography and Sources; Society, Culture and Heritage; and Economy, Labour and Politics, with contributions from scholars in the Departments of History, Literatures in English and Political Sciences and from the Main Library, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica." -- Book Jacket.
Slave Women in Caribbean Society, 1650-1838
Author: Barbara Bush
Publisher: James Currey
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780852550588
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this text the author sets forth and then evaulates the images of slave women accumulated in published sources and folklore.
Working with West Indian Families
Author: Sharon-Ann Gopaul-McNicol
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 1993-03-26
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780898620245
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is designed to enhance the cultural competence of mental health and educational professionals working with West Indian families. It provides a concise introduction to the historical, sociopolitical, family, and cultural contexts that shape the experiences of this growing immigrant population. Describing typical family structures, roles, and values, the author highlights inter-island differences as well as differences between African Americans and African West Indian Americans. Guidelines for culturally aware assessment, intervention, and training are presented, illustrated with sensitive clinical material. Ideal for practicing professionals, the book also serves as a text in graduate-level courses in multiculturalism, psychological assessment, linguistic assessment, educational assessment, and family therapy.
Women and Change in the Caribbean
Author: Janet Momsen
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1993-09-22
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780253338969
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecent discussion of postmodern culture describes a movement from center to periphery, privileging cultures that were formerly marginalized. Women and Change in the Caribbean, a study of women marginalized by both gender and race in a region such as the Caribbean—itself marginalized in global terms—attempts to extract insights relevant both within and beyond geographical confines. This volume offers a feminist interpretation of a multicultural society emerging from colonialism and in the process of change and restructuring. The nineteen chapters include case studies of fifteen different Caribbean territories including Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, Puerto Rico, Grenada, and Guyana. The book is divided into two sections: the first looks at women's status and gender relations in the private and public spheres; the second looks at women's economic activity. Taking a broad pan-Caribbean comparative view contributors discuss territories with American, British, Dutch, Danish, French, and Spanish colonial traditions and current political links. The contributors come from a range of disciplinary backgrounds including agriculture, anthropology, economics, geography, history, sociology, and women's studies.
The Meaning Of Freedom
Author: Frank McGlynn
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 1992-05-15
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 0822971542
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this interdisciplinary study, scholars consider the aftermath of slavery, focusing on Caribbean societies and the southern United States. What was the nature and impact of slave emancipation? Did the change in legal status conceal underlying continuities in American plantation societies? Was there a common postemancipation pattern of economic development? How did emancipation affect the politics and culture of race and class? This comparative study addresses precisely these types of questions as it makes a significant contribution to a new a growing field.
Violence and Colonial Order
Author: Martin Thomas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-09-20
Total Pages: 541
ISBN-13: 1139576550
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a pioneering, multi-empire account of the relationship between the politics of imperial repression and the economic structures of European colonies between the two World Wars. Ranging across colonial Africa, Southeast Asia and the Caribbean, Martin Thomas explores the structure of local police forces, their involvement in colonial labour control and the containment of uprisings and dissent. His work sheds new light on broader trends in the direction and intent of colonial state repression. It shows that the management of colonial economies, particularly in crisis conditions, took precedence over individual imperial powers' particular methods of rule in determining the forms and functions of colonial police actions. The politics of colonial labour thus became central to police work, with the depression years marking a watershed not only in local economic conditions but also in the breakdown of the European colonial order more generally.
Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World
Author: Pamela Scully
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2005-10-04
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 0822387468
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis groundbreaking collection provides the first comparative history of gender and emancipation in the Atlantic world. Bringing together essays on the United States, Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico, West Africa and South Africa, and the Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean, it shows that emancipation was a profoundly gendered process, produced through connections between race, gender, sexuality, and class. Contributors from the United States, Canada, Europe, the Caribbean, and Brazil explore how the processes of emancipation involved the re-creation of gender identities—the production of freedmen and freedwomen with different rights, responsibilities, and access to citizenship. Offering detailed analyses of slave emancipation in specific societies, the contributors discuss all of the diverse actors in emancipation: slaves, abolitionists, free people of color, state officials, and slave owners. Whether considering the construction of a postslavery masculine subjectivity in Jamaica, the work of two white U.S. abolitionist women with the Freedmen’s Bureau after the Civil War, freedwomen’s negotiations of labor rights in Puerto Rico, slave women’s contributions to the slow unraveling of slavery in French West Africa, or the ways that Brazilian abolitionists deployed representations of femininity as virtuous and moral, these essays demonstrate the gains that a gendered approach offers to understanding the complex processes of emancipation. Some chapters also explore theories and methodologies that enable a gendered reading of postslavery archives. The editors’ substantial introduction traces the reasons for and patterns of women’s and men’s different experiences of emancipation throughout the Atlantic world. Contributors. Martha Abreu, Sheena Boa, Bridget Brereton, Carol Faulkner, Roger Kittleson, Martin Klein, Melanie Newton, Diana Paton, Sue Peabody, Richard Roberts, Ileana M. Rodriguez-Silva, Hannah Rosen, Pamela Scully, Mimi Sheller, Marek Steedman, Michael Zeuske
The Slavery Reader
Author: Gad J. Heuman
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 824
ISBN-13: 9780415213035
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrings together the most recent and essential writings on slavery. Spanning almost five centuries - the late fifteenth until the mid-nineteenth - the articles trace the range and impact of slavery on the modern western world.
