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    • [PDF File]Skin Bleaching in Jamaica: A Colonial Legacy

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      significance and relevance, it is particularly true in Jamaica, a former British colony. The majority of the population is of African descent, yet there is an elevation of Eurocentric values and a denigration of Afrocentric values in many facets of life,

    • An overview of the economy of Jamaica

      12 Jamaica: Debt and Poverty By the time it gained political independence in 1962, Jamaica was still underdeveloped, dependent, and poverty-stricken. The new government's economic policy and programmes were significantly influenced by the contemporary Puerto Rican experience of 'Operation Bootstrap'. This was an economic

    • [PDF File]THE JAMAICA READER

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      the National Library of Jamaica, the Jamaica Archives, the National Gallery of Jamaica, the Jamaica Gleaner Archives, the British Library, and the Na-tional Library of Scotland. Thanks also to those who commented on drafts of the book proposal, manuscript, or sections thereof: Gad Heuman, Helen

    • [PDF File]Nanny of the Maroons - EIU

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      Jamaica’s history.”1 Her story is intriguing, yet shadowed in mystery. She was a powerful woman who transcended gender stereotypes in order to lead her people. However, very little is known about her, since neither she nor her people left a conventional written record. Instead, historians have

    • [PDF File]The Control and Treatment of Slaves - SJC HISTORY DEPARTMENT

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      developed in Jamaica was the most savage of them all, and attempts to modify it were constantly thwarted by the power of the planters in the legislature. cut into four pieces. Or he could simply be burnt to death, which in Jamaica in 1740 was laid down as the punishment that a slave would incur for striking a white person. All of these methods of

    • [PDF File]Resistance and Rebellion in the Caribbean

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      Extract from a Punishment Record Book, Vryheid Plantation, Guyana, 1826-27. Document 2 - CO 7/1: 6 Advert from The Barbados Mercury, looking for Billy a runaway slave, 2 December 1786. Document 3 - CO700/Jamaica 24: 7 Map showing 1500 acres of Jamaica, given to the Maroons in 1739. Document 4 - CO 1/53 f 266: 8

    • [PDF File]History for CSEC Examinations Amerindians to Africans

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      aimed at covering the 2000 Caribbean History syllabus of the Caribbean Examinations Council. It is a considerably revised and enlarged version of Arawaks to Africans, the book written to meet the needs of earlier editions of the syllabus. As with its predecessor the content follows the

    • [PDF File]hISTORY OF EDUCATION

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      hISTORy OF EDUCATION 7 education had to be provided in a special school. At this time, the types and degrees of disability were named and this was the case until 1981, when it was agreed that these labels were inappropriate. Effects of the 1944 Education Act The selection process, rather like SATs (Statutory Assessment Test), had an effect on

    • [PDF File]Jamaica Kincaid Callaloo Vol. 24, No. 2, The Best of ...

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      IN HISTORY by Jamaica Kincaid What to call the thing that happened to me and all who look like me? Should I call it history? If so, what should history mean to someone like me? Should it be an idea, should it be an open wound and each breath I take in and expel healing and opening the wound again and again, over and over, or is it a moment that ...

    • [PDF File]T The Jamaican Constitution - The Voice of Jamaica

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      he Jamaica Constitution 1962 is the most funda-mental legal document in the country, guaranteeing the freedom, rights and privileges of every Jamaican citizen. The Constitution reflects the country’s inde-pendence as a nation state and, to this day, remains the corner -

    • [PDF File]The Middle Passage - NPS

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      2 Portugal and Africa maintained a stable and peaceful relationship, which caused a shift in the acquisition of enslaved Africans.9 The Portuguese understood not to kidnap Africans, and to encourage African merchants and kings to provide a supply of enslaved Africans as a commodity such as gold, ivory, and peppers.10 This allowed for the expansion of the Middle Passage into the Transatlantic ...

    • [PDF File]The Spirit of Dancehall: embodying a new nomos in Jamaica

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      held. In his critically acclaimed book Wake the Town and Tell the Peo-ple: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica (2000), Norman Stolzoff describes the genre as, “a fast-moving form of reggae with a hard, percussive beat, a bass that echoes like a seismic tremor in your gut, music with an irresistibly deep groove.” Dancehall features DJs/vocalists

    • [PDF File]The Creole Identity in the Caribbean Postcolonial Society ...

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      history and culture of the Caribbean in the postcolonial context. Despite the physical isolation and colonization, de-colonization, displacement, slavery and emancipation, Caribbean society leads to the emergence of ‘new world’, ‘new ethnicity’ (Stuart Hall), national culture and literary identity. In the postcolonial Caribbean, ...

    • A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica 1655-1844. LUCILLE ...

      Department of History, UWI, Mona, and from Jamaica's women, "who consti-tuted one of the society's most vital elements." A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica 1655-1844 made history and as a classic has a legacy of its own. Decency and Excess : Global Aspirations and Material Deprivation on a Caribbean Sugar Plantation. SAMUEL MARTÍNEZ.

    • [PDF File]HISTORY OF HOME ECONOMICS IN THE CARIBBEAN

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      the Caribbean came from the “History of Home Economics in Guyana’ by Minerva Alexander in which was recorded: Norma E. Cameron in his book “150 years of Education in British Guiana” provided evidence to show that Home Economics in its simplest form began in British Guiana since the year 1813

    • [PDF File]The 2019 LUCILLE MATHURIN MAIR PUBLIC LECTURE

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      History. She has published extensively on these areas of specialization, and is editor/compiler, author, co-author and co-editor of some 16 important books, among them: The Gibson Relays: History & Impact on Jamaica’s Sports Culture and Social Development; Engendering Caribbean History: Cross-Cultural

    • THE CARIBBEAN: ONE r AND DIVISIBLE

      veritable hell on earth I.n his book From Columbus to Castro: the History of the Caribbean, Eri Williamc s recall thats : Barbados, a word of terro tor the white servant becam, teo the Negro, as a slav tradee wrotr ien 1693 ",a mor dreadfue l

    • [PDF File]EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE BRITISH WEST INDIES: A ...

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      British Guiana; York Castle High School established in the 1870s, and Jamaica High School founded in 1882 in Jamaica; and Catholic College of St. Mary's established in Trinidad in 1863. As secondary school enrollment increased several proposals were discussed regarding the need for creating tertiary education opportunities within the region.

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