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Book Yards in the City of Kingston

Download or read book Yards in the City of Kingston written by Erna Brodber and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dead Yard

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  • Author : Ian Thomson
  • Publisher : Bold Type Books
  • Release : 2011-03-29
  • ISBN : 1568586663
  • Pages : 393 pages

Download or read book The Dead Yard written by Ian Thomson and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named the Dolman Travel Book of the Year, The Dead Yard paints an unforgettable portrait of modern Jamaica. Since independence, Jamaica has gradually become associated with twin images--a resort-style travel Eden for foreigners and a new kind of hell for Jamaicans, a society where gangs control the areas where most Jamaicans live and drug lords like Christopher Coke rule elites and the poor alike. Ian Thomson's brave book explores a country of lost promise, where America's hunger for drugs fuels a dependent economy and shadowy politics. The lauded birthplace of reggae and Bob Marley, Jamaica is now sunk in corruption and hopelessness. A synthesis of vital history and unflinching reportage, The Dead Yard is "a fascinating account of a beautiful, treacherous country" (Irish Times).

Book The Caribbean City

Download or read book The Caribbean City written by Rivke Jaffe and published by Ian Randle Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Caribbean cities are a unique yet underexposed phenomenon. Their distinctiveness results from a combination of interrelated factors including a history of slavery, development under the hemispheric hegemony of the United States and spatial limitations imposed by the settings of most Caribbean urban areas." "This innovative volume presents a detailed introduction to the spatial, socio-cultural and economic characteristics of the Caribbean city, followed by case studies of selected cities in the Dutch, Hispanophone, Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean. It discusses a broad range of disciplinary approaches in examining the urban Caribbean, incorporating perspectives from anthropology, sociology, history, political science, geography and literary and cultural criticism."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Inside Tenement Time

Download or read book Inside Tenement Time written by Kezia Page and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2024-11-15 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside Tenement Time is the first comprehensive treatment of literary and cultural texts on surveillance in the Caribbean. Covering the long historical arc of the twentieth to the twenty-first centuries, Inside Tenement Time uses Jamaica as a case study to examine moments of crisis and particular spaces, especially urban yard enclaves and their environs, in the Caribbean encounter with surveillance. Making the argument that the Caribbean situation reveals flexible hegemonies rather than provinces of exclusive control, the book demonstrates the countervailing force of sussveillance and spiritveillance, Afro-Indigenous variations on surveillance. Sussveillance and spiritveillance are exemplars of vernacular arts and sciences that operate at and within the frangible borders of state power, exposing the unique dynamics of surveillance in the region and marshalling the acts of imagination with which it contends. For example, the Smile Jamaica concert of 1976, headlined by reggae Superstar Bob Marley, and the reputedly US government-backed 2010 Tivoli Gardens incursion in West Kingston, both moments that have dramatic, even mythic residue in Caribbean and global memory, are among the real-life events brought into conversation with literary representations of this history.

Book Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry for

Download or read book Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry for written by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report

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  • Author : United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1885
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 550 pages

Download or read book Report written by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Document

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 606 pages

Download or read book Document written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Global Raciality

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  • Author : Paola Bacchetta
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2018-10-31
  • ISBN : 0429688261
  • Pages : 375 pages

Download or read book Global Raciality written by Paola Bacchetta and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Raciality expands our understanding of race, space, and place by exploring forms of racism and anti-racist resistance worldwide. Contributors address neoliberalism; settler colonialism; race, class, and gender intersectionality; immigrant rights; Islamophobia; and homonationalism; and investigate the dynamic forces propelling anti-racist solidarity and resistance cultures. Midway through the Trump years and with a rise in nativism fervor across the globe, this expanded approach captures the creativity and variety found in the fight against racism we see the world over. Chapters focus on both the immersive global trajectories of race and racism, and the international variation in contemporary configurations of racialized experience. Race, class, and gender identities may not only be distinctive, they can extend across borders, continents, and oceans with remarkable demonstrations of solidarity happening all over the world. Palestinians, Black Panthers, Dalit, Native Americans, and Indian feminists among others meet and interact in this context. Intersections between race and such forms of power as colonialism and empire, capitalism, gender, sexuality, religion, and class are examined and compared across different national and global contexts. It is in this robust and comparative analytical approach that Global Raciality reframes conventional studies on postcolonial regimes and racial identities and expression.

Book City Inequality

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  • Author : International Institute for Environment & Development
  • Publisher : IIED
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9781843690870
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book City Inequality written by International Institute for Environment & Development and published by IIED. This book was released on 1996 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report

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  • Author : United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1885
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 568 pages

Download or read book Annual Report written by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sailing Directions for the West Indies  Principal ports

Download or read book Sailing Directions for the West Indies Principal ports written by United States. Hydrographic Office and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sounds and the City

Download or read book Sounds and the City written by Brett Lashua and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws from a rich history of scholarship about the relations between music and cities, and the global flows between music and urban experience. The contributions in this collection comment on the global city as a nexus of moving people, changing places, and shifting social relations, asking what popular music can tell us about cities, and vice versa. Since the publication of the first Sounds and the City volume, various movements, changes and shifts have amplified debates about globalization. From the waves of people migrating to Europe from the Syrian civil war and other conflict zones, to the 2016 “Brexit” vote to leave the European Union and American presidential election of Donald Trump. These, and other events, appear to have exposed an anti-globalist retreat toward isolationism and a backlash against multiculturalism that has been termed “post-globalization.” Amidst this, what of popular music? Does music offer renewed spaces and avenues for public protest, for collective action and resistance? What can the diverse​​ histories, hybridities, and legacies of popular music tell us about the ever-changing relations of people and cities?

Book DanceHall

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sonjah Stanley Niaah
  • Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
  • Release : 2010-10-27
  • ISBN : 0776619047
  • Pages : 263 pages

Download or read book DanceHall written by Sonjah Stanley Niaah and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2010-10-27 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, politics, rituals, philosophies, and survival strategies that link Caribbean, African and African diasporic performance. Combining the rhythms of reggae, digital sounds and rapid-fire DJ lyrics, dancehall music was popularized in Jamaica during the later part of the last century by artists such as Shabba Ranks, Shaggy, Beenie Man and Buju Banton. Even as its popularity grows around the world, a detailed understanding of dancehall performance space, lifestyle and meanings is missing. Author Sonjah Stanley Niaah relates how dancehall emerged from the marginalized youth culture of Kingston’s ghettos and how it remains inextricably linked to the ghetto, giving its performance culture and spaces a distinct identity. She reveals how dancehall’s migratory networks, embodied practice, institutional frameworks, and ritual practices link it to other musical styles, such as American blues, South African kwaito, and Latin American reggaetòn. She shows that dancehall is part of a legacy that reaches from the dance shrubs of West Indian plantations and the early negro churches, to the taxi-dance halls of Chicago and the ballrooms of Manhattan. Indeed, DanceHall stretches across the whole of the Black Atlantic’s geography and history to produce its detailed portrait of dancehall in its local, regional, and transnational performance spaces.

Book Sound  Society and the Geography of Popular Music

Download or read book Sound Society and the Geography of Popular Music written by Thomas L. Bell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular music is a cultural form much rooted in space and place. This book interprets the meaning of music from a spatial perspective and, in doing so it furthers our understanding of broader social relations and trends, including identity, attachment to place, cultural economies, social activism and politics. The book's editors have brought together a team of scholars to discuss the latest innovative thinking on music and its geographies, illustrated with a fascinating range of case studies from the USA, Canada, the Caribbean, Australia and Great Britain.

Book Annual Report of the Bureau of Animal Industry for the Year

Download or read book Annual Report of the Bureau of Animal Industry for the Year written by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hendricks  Commercial Register of the United States

Download or read book Hendricks Commercial Register of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: