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• The Age of Garvey

  How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics

  Ewing, Adam (Historian)

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  "Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program of African liberation and racial uplift had attracted millions of supporters, both in the United…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Negro With a Hat

  the Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey

  Grant, Colin, 1961-

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  New in paperback, this groundbreaking biography captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Marcus Garvey's life, the dazzling triumphs and the dreary exile. As Grant shows, Garvey was a man of contradictions: a self-educated, poetry-writing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Brief History of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Jamaica, 1965-2016

  Bryan, Patrick E.,

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  The foundation in 1965 of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Jamaica (ICAJ) was the fruit of agitation by Jamaican nationalists to create an indigenous accounting institution, which would give greater opportunity to Jamaicans and replace…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Traveling Jamaica With Knife, Fork & Spoon

  a Righteous Guide to Jamaican Cookery

  Walsh, Robb

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  Chef Jay McCarthy and culinary correspondent Robb Walsh take an adventurous trip across the island of Jamaica collecting 140 recipes and meeting dozens of colorful characters along the way.

• Under the Breadfruit Tree

  Island Poems

  Gunning, Monica

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  Boyds Mills Press publishes a wide range of high-quality fiction and nonfiction picture books, chapter books, novels, and nonfiction.

• The History of the Maroons

  From Their Origin to the Establishment of Their Chief Tribe at Sierra Leone ; Including the Expedition to Cuba for the Purpose of Procuring Spanish Chasseurs ; and the State of the Island of Jamaica for the Last Ten Years ; With a Succinct History of the Island Previous to That Period

  Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824

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  From Their Origin to the Establishment of Their Chief Tribe at Sierra Leone; Including the Expedition to Cuba for the Purpose of Procuring Spanish Chasseurs; and the State of the Island of Jamaica for the Last Ten Years; With a Succinct History of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Between Black and White

  Race, Politics, and the Free Coloreds in Jamaica, 1792-1865

  Heuman, Gad J.

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  The complex story of the rise and fall of the colored class in Jamaican politics is examined in this important contribution to the history of the Caribbean.

• From Africa to Jamaica

  the Making of An Atlantic Slave Society, 1775-1807

  Diptee, Audra

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  "Many Jamaicans are seeking empirical data from the period of the trade in Africans to justify the case for reparation. This book should provide them with much of what they need to understand this crime against humanity."--Verene A. Shepherd,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Scammer's Yard

  the Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica

  Lewis, Jovan Scott,

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  This book tells the story of Jamaican "scammers" who use crime to gain autonomy, opportunity, and repair.

• An Ethos of Blackness

  Rastafari Cosmology, Culture, and Consciousness

  Jean-Marie, Vivaldi,

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  Rastafari is an Afrocentric social and religious movement that emerged among Afro-Jamaican communities in the 1930s and has many adherents in the Caribbean and worldwide today. This book is a groundbreaking account of Rastafari, demonstrating that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jamaican Sayings

  With Notes on Folklore, Aesthetics, and Social Control

  Watson, G. Llewellyn

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  "A rich and compelling collection that will make a significant contribution to the study of Jamaican/West Indian/black folklore and culture" -Daryl Cumber Dance, Virginia Commonwealth University "A fantastic collection from the rich storehouse of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• An Archaeology of Black Markets

  Local Ceramics and Economies in Eighteenth-century Jamaica

  Hauser, Mark W.

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  In 18th-century Jamaica, an informal, underground economy existed among enslaved labourers. This book uses pottery fragments to examine their trade networks and to understand how enslaved and free Jamaicans created communities that transcended…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Decolonizing the Colonial City

  Urbanization and Stratification in Kingston, Jamaica

  Clarke, Colin G.

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  In this sequel to Kingston, Jamaica: Urban Development and Social Change, 1692 to 1962 (1975) Colin Clarke investigates the role of class, colour, race, and culture in the changing social stratification and spatial patterning of Kingston, Jamaica…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dancehall

  From Slave Ship to Ghetto

  Stanley-Niaah, Sonjah Nadine

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  Dancehall combines cultural geography, performance studies and cultural studies to examine performance culture across the Black Atlantic. Taking Jamaican dancehall music as its prime example, DanceHall reveals a complex web of cultural practices,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Made in Jamaica

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  Made in Jamaica: A musical documentary that presents an overview of the reggae music movement past and present, from the crime and violence of the ghetto to political responsibility, showcasing performances and interviews with such artists as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hope Transformed

  a Historical Sketch of the Hope Landscape, St. Andrew, Jamaica, 1660-1960

  Satchell, Veront M.

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  "The historic Hope lands located on the Liguanea Plain in the southeastern parish of St Andrew, Jamaica, and once the site of one of the island's earliest sugar estates, has had a long history of human settlements dating back to approximately 600…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Transformations of Freedom in the Land of the Maroons

  Creolization in the Cockpits, Jamaica

  Besson, Jean,

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  Despite outstanding histories and ethnographies on maroons, there has been little attempt to draw modern maroons into a comparative perspective with the descendants of emancipated slaves who are the majority of African-Americans today. There is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Revivalism

  Representing An Afro-Jamaican Identity

  Robinson-Smith, Maria A.,

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  Maria A. Robinson-Smith presents an overview and genealogy of Revivalism in this work. She explores the role of the Revival iconography in building a culture of shared understanding among Revivalists and, by extension, African Jamaicans. The Watt…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Women and Resistance in the Early Rastafari Movement

  Dunkley, Daive A., 1973-

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  Women and Resistance in the Early Rastafari Movement is a pioneering study of women's resistance in the emergent Rastafari movement in colonial Jamaica. As D. A. Dunkley demonstrates, Rastafari women had to contend not only with the various attempts…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jamaica, as It Was, as It Is, and as It May Be

  Senior, Bernard Martin

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  Jamaica, as It Was, as It Is, and as It May Be: Comprising Interesting Topics for Absent Proprietors, Merchants, etc., and Valuable Hints to Persons Intending To Emigrate to the Island: Also an Authentic Narrative of the Negro Insurrection in 1831;…Read moreRead more of this annotation