Living in Jamaica
Author | : |
Publisher | : Sea to Sea Publications |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2006-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781597710473 |
Describes the cities, famous sites, family life, and celebrations of Jamaica.
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Author | : |
Publisher | : Sea to Sea Publications |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2006-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781597710473 |
Describes the cities, famous sites, family life, and celebrations of Jamaica.
Author | : James C. Riley |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2005-07-18 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521850476 |
A 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 | : Nikko M Fungchung |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-11-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780998149738 |
Anya'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 | : |
Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Jamaica |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Yvonne Shorter Brown |
Publisher | : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2022-04-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1771125489 |
Dead 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 | : Diane Austin-Broos |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2017-10-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351717324 |
This 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 | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Jamaica |
ISBN | : 9780749663391 |
Focuses 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 |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2018-07-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1524799211 |
“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 | : Cheri Avery Black |
Publisher | : Booklocker.com |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2019-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781632637093 |
This 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.