Download or read book The Story of the Jamaican People written by Sir Philip Manderson Sherlock and published by Markus Wiener Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Jamaican people from an Afro-Caribbean rather than a European perspective. Africa is at the centre of the story; for by claiming Africa as homeland, Jamaicans gain a sense of historical continuity, of identity, and of roots.
Download or read book Another Mother written by Ross Kenneth Urken and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Brief History of Seven Killings written by Marlon James and published by Riverhead Books. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale inspired by the 1976 attempted assassination of Bob Marley spans decades and continents to explore the experiences of journalists, drug dealers, killers, and ghosts against a backdrop of social and political turmoil.
Download or read book Revitalizing the Jamaican Economy written by Inter-American Development Bank and published by IDB. This book was released on 2004 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Book of Jamaica written by Russell Banks and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A truly excellent novel. . . . The morbidly fascinating little twists of human existence are all here: love, sex, life and death, beauty and horror—the works." — Chicago Sun-Times In The Book of Jamaica, Russell Banks explores the complexities of political life in the Caribbean and its ever-present racial conflicts. His narrator, a thirty-five-year-old college professor from New Hampshire, goes to Jamaica to write a novel and soon becomes embroiled in the struggles between whites and Blacks. He is especially interested in an ancient tribe called the Maroons, descendants of the Ashanti, who had been enslaved by the Spanish and then fought the British in a hundred-year war. Despite this history of oppression, the Maroons have managed to maintain a relatively autonomous existence in Jamaica. Partly out of guilt and an intellectual sense of social responsibility, Banks's narrator gets involved in reuniting two clans who have been feuding for generations. Unfortunately, his attempt ends in disaster, and the narrator must deal with his feelings of alienation, isolation, and failure.
Download or read book Writing Jamaican the Jamaican Way Ou fi Rait Jamiekan written by and published by A r a w a k publications. This book was released on with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to Love a Jamaican written by Alexia Arthurs and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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
Download or read book The Jamaican Small scale Farmer written by and published by Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE. This book was released on 1988 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Jamaican Odyssey written by Benjamin Stewart and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in the rural Montego Bay area of Jamaica in the 1950' Stewart enjoyed an idyllic childhood growing up in a strict, loving, hard working religious family. He enrolled with his best friend into the Jamaican Police Force and was ecstatic to be selected for the Mobile Reserve-the elite unit of the Jamaica Constabulary Force. Blissfully married at a young age to a lovely UK girl of Jamaican heritage, he was forced to leave his beloved Jamaica to save his marriage. Arriving in the UK was a culture shock for Stewart who had not travelled abroad before., there his odyssey intensified. Like all immigrants he face many challenges and fell at many hurdles. But he also experienced remarkable successes, such as saving the lives of little children and being commended with the Queens medal for long and exemplary public service.
Download or read book Jabari written by Ras Dennis Jabari Reynolds and published by Around the Way Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Jamaican Revenge written by The Jamaican Dragon: Dominic J.I.H. and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-05 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book If You ..Love your family ..Are a child of immigrant parents ..Love your mixed heritage ..Are a diligent worker but don't get the credit ..Work a Job that is frowned upon by most people ..Are being bullied or taken advantage of ..Are a comic reader ..Action junkie ..Want to understand Patois (Jamaican Slang) ..Watch Kung Fu or Martial Arts This Book is for You
Download or read book Born Fi Dead written by Laurie Gunst and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-03-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the ethnic gangs that rule America's inner cities, none has had the impact of the Jamaican posses. Spawned in the ghettos of Kingston as mercenary street-fighters for the island's politicians, the posses began migrating to the United States in the early 1980's, just in time to catch and ride the crack wave as it engulfed the country. Laurie Gunst's provocative exposé of the Jamaican politicians' role in creating this problem is also a moving and compelling tale of suffering and exploitation. Leone Ross' substantial afterword examines further the issues raised by the book from a British and Jamaican perspective. --Back cover.
Download or read book The Jamaican Economy In The 1980s written by Robert E. Looney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the main causes of deterioration in the Jamaican economy since 1972 and assesses the prospects for returning to a period of stable growth under an International Monetary Fund Stabilization program. Considering both the role of international economic conditions and domestic policies on Jamaica's economic decline, Dr. Looney compares the viability of the socialist model of development, implemented between 1972 and 1980, with that of the U.S.-sponsored supply side model. He raises important questions about the ability of small open economies to sustain acceptable rates of growth in the existing world economic environment, the effectiveness of IMF Stabilization programs on these economies, the possible impact of supply side development strategies, and the significance of Caribbean Basin Initiative policies for growth and stability in the area.
Download or read book The Jamaican Canadian Association 1962 2012 written by Roy W. Williams and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-01-16 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizations in the African-Canadian-Caribbean Community have over the years appeared, flourished for a while, and then disappeared, often without a trace. Their history has not been recorded to be dissected by historians, sociologist, and other scholars other than to be added, as one more, to the list of defunct organizations. The Jamaican-Canadian Association (JCA) is in its 50th year and will start its 51st year in 2012. This book attempts to chronicle its origin, its survival struggles, its accomplishments, and activities that take place at the JCA. Survival to 50 is historic. Why has the JCA survived when so many others have failed? The contents of this book may reveal the survival formula. The road has not been easy. The path has not been clear, but survive it has--with solid accomplishments. It has nurtured and honed the talents and skills of its leaders and offered them for service in the wider community – Armstrong, Fuller, Williams, Gopie, Stewart and Bailey – to name a few. Others have served as well in less high profiled positions. Over the period it has acquired three headquarters – one was lost to fire. The other it outgrew. The third it presently occupies. The foundation has been laid but the future is not without its challenges. Another scribe, hopefully, will pen the history of the next 50 or whatever number of years it survives.
Download or read book The Jamaican Lottery Scam written by Suzann Dodd and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jamaican Lottery Scam has existed for many years. And continues to exist. This is a short explanation of how it works and in some respects, why it works.
Download or read book The Jamaican Affair of 1805 written by John Mahon and published by eNet Press. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hornblower, now a spy, travels through Spain to get the French navy to sail. Then he's off to Jamaica to protect against a possible invasion. All the intricacies of the plot click together in this very good read about Hornblower, while keeping his history and character intact.
Download or read book Water Management and Gender in the Jamaican Breadbasket written by UNESCO Office in Kingston and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-27 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
