Author: April E. Diggs
Publisher: April E Diggs
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
JAMAICA JOURNAL: IN THE LAND OF NO WORRIES EVERYTHING AINT IRIE is a raw eye view of a woman traveler who is daring and brave enough to take on the entire Island of Jamaica Parish by Parish solo. With Divine courage and faith. April E. Diggs opens up the eyes of her readers to see the real experiences, good and bad, of taking on such a feat. The author engages you with an array of emotions, so the reader can feel the essence of Jamaica through foreign eyes. The book encompasses the true heartbeat of Jamaica, with vivid images and the Patois language native to Jamaica. The intention of this book from the author is to educate as well as inspire in search of the deeper meaning of Roots and Culture. The intention of this book is also meant to provide more resources to the community, as a grand bulk of this book's proceeds will be utilized to pay it forward and assist in the economic growth of the characters in this book and the overall well-being of Jamaica and its beautiful citizens".
Jamaica Journal
Author: April E. Diggs
Publisher: April E Diggs
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
JAMAICA JOURNAL: IN THE LAND OF NO WORRIES EVERYTHING AINT IRIE is a raw eye view of a woman traveler who is daring and brave enough to take on the entire Island of Jamaica Parish by Parish solo. With Divine courage and faith. April E. Diggs opens up the eyes of her readers to see the real experiences, good and bad, of taking on such a feat. The author engages you with an array of emotions, so the reader can feel the essence of Jamaica through foreign eyes. The book encompasses the true heartbeat of Jamaica, with vivid images and the Patois language native to Jamaica. The intention of this book from the author is to educate as well as inspire in search of the deeper meaning of Roots and Culture. The intention of this book is also meant to provide more resources to the community, as a grand bulk of this book's proceeds will be utilized to pay it forward and assist in the economic growth of the characters in this book and the overall well-being of Jamaica and its beautiful citizens".
Publisher: April E Diggs
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
JAMAICA JOURNAL: IN THE LAND OF NO WORRIES EVERYTHING AINT IRIE is a raw eye view of a woman traveler who is daring and brave enough to take on the entire Island of Jamaica Parish by Parish solo. With Divine courage and faith. April E. Diggs opens up the eyes of her readers to see the real experiences, good and bad, of taking on such a feat. The author engages you with an array of emotions, so the reader can feel the essence of Jamaica through foreign eyes. The book encompasses the true heartbeat of Jamaica, with vivid images and the Patois language native to Jamaica. The intention of this book from the author is to educate as well as inspire in search of the deeper meaning of Roots and Culture. The intention of this book is also meant to provide more resources to the community, as a grand bulk of this book's proceeds will be utilized to pay it forward and assist in the economic growth of the characters in this book and the overall well-being of Jamaica and its beautiful citizens".
Jamaica Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jamaica
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jamaica
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Jamaica is Thankful
Author: Juanita Havill
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618982318
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
When her friend Kristin tells her she is unable to keep her kitten and turns to Jamaica for help in giving it a good home, Jamaica faces a dilemma when her brother's allergies are affected by the new arrival.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618982318
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
When her friend Kristin tells her she is unable to keep her kitten and turns to Jamaica for help in giving it a good home, Jamaica faces a dilemma when her brother's allergies are affected by the new arrival.
Lady Nugent's Journal of Her Residence in Jamaica from 1801 to 1805
Author: Lady Maria Nugent
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Personal diary of Lady Nugent, wife of the Governor of Jamaica, the most important of the highly prized British sugar colonies, during a critical period in the Napoleonic War. Entries, mainly concerned with life in the Governor's household, convey fresh impressions of life at the centre of a slave-owning colonial society.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Personal diary of Lady Nugent, wife of the Governor of Jamaica, the most important of the highly prized British sugar colonies, during a critical period in the Napoleonic War. Entries, mainly concerned with life in the Governor's household, convey fresh impressions of life at the centre of a slave-owning colonial society.
The New Jamaica magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The Jamaica Reader
Author: Diana Paton
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478013095
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
From Miss Lou to Bob Marley and Usain Bolt to Kamala Harris, Jamaica has had an outsized reach in global mainstream culture. Yet many of its most important historical, cultural, and political events and aspects are largely unknown beyond the island. The Jamaica Reader presents a panoramic history of the country, from its precontact indigenous origins to the present. Combining more than one hundred classic and lesser-known texts that include journalism, lyrics, memoir, and poetry, the Reader showcases myriad voices from over the centuries: the earliest published black writer in the English-speaking world; contemporary dancehall artists; Marcus Garvey; and anonymous migrant workers. It illuminates the complexities of Jamaica's past, addressing topics such as resistance to slavery, the modern tourist industry, the realities of urban life, and the struggle to find a national identity following independence in 1962. Throughout, it sketches how its residents and visitors have experienced and shaped its place in the world. Providing an unparalleled look at Jamaica's history, culture, and politics, this volume is an ideal companion for anyone interested in learning about this magnetic and dynamic nation.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478013095
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
From Miss Lou to Bob Marley and Usain Bolt to Kamala Harris, Jamaica has had an outsized reach in global mainstream culture. Yet many of its most important historical, cultural, and political events and aspects are largely unknown beyond the island. The Jamaica Reader presents a panoramic history of the country, from its precontact indigenous origins to the present. Combining more than one hundred classic and lesser-known texts that include journalism, lyrics, memoir, and poetry, the Reader showcases myriad voices from over the centuries: the earliest published black writer in the English-speaking world; contemporary dancehall artists; Marcus Garvey; and anonymous migrant workers. It illuminates the complexities of Jamaica's past, addressing topics such as resistance to slavery, the modern tourist industry, the realities of urban life, and the struggle to find a national identity following independence in 1962. Throughout, it sketches how its residents and visitors have experienced and shaped its place in the world. Providing an unparalleled look at Jamaica's history, culture, and politics, this volume is an ideal companion for anyone interested in learning about this magnetic and dynamic nation.
Martha Brae's Two Histories
Author: Jean Besson
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807854099
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Based on historical research and more than thirty years of anthropological fieldwork, this wide-ranging study underlines the importance of Caribbean cultures for anthropology, which has generally marginalized Europe's oldest colonial sphere. Located at
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807854099
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Based on historical research and more than thirty years of anthropological fieldwork, this wide-ranging study underlines the importance of Caribbean cultures for anthropology, which has generally marginalized Europe's oldest colonial sphere. Located at
Slavery, Childhood, and Abolition in Jamaica, 1788-1838
Author: Colleen A. Vasconcellos
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820348031
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
This study examines childhood and slavery in Jamaica from the onset of improved conditions for the island's slaves to the end of all forced or coerced labor throughout the British Caribbean. As Colleen A. Vasconcellos discusses the nature of child development in the plantation complex, she looks at how both colonial Jamaican society and the slave community conceived childhood—and how those ideas changed as the abolitionist movement gained power, the fortunes of planters rose and fell, and the nature of work on Jamaica's estates evolved from slavery to apprenticeship to free labor. Vasconcellos explores the experiences of enslaved children through the lenses of family, resistance, race, status, culture, education, and freedom. In the half-century covered by her study, Jamaican planters alternately saw enslaved children as burdens or investments. At the same time, the childhood experience was shaped by the ethnically, linguistically, and culturally diverse slave community. Vasconcellos adds detail and meaning to these tensions by looking, for instance, at enslaved children of color, legally termed mulattos, who had unique ties to both slave and planter families. In addition, she shows how traditions, beliefs, and practices within the slave community undermined planters' efforts to ensure a compliant workforce by instilling Christian values in enslaved children. These are just a few of the ways that Vasconcellos reveals an overlooked childhood—one that was often defined by Jamaican planters but always contested and redefined by the slaves themselves.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820348031
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
This study examines childhood and slavery in Jamaica from the onset of improved conditions for the island's slaves to the end of all forced or coerced labor throughout the British Caribbean. As Colleen A. Vasconcellos discusses the nature of child development in the plantation complex, she looks at how both colonial Jamaican society and the slave community conceived childhood—and how those ideas changed as the abolitionist movement gained power, the fortunes of planters rose and fell, and the nature of work on Jamaica's estates evolved from slavery to apprenticeship to free labor. Vasconcellos explores the experiences of enslaved children through the lenses of family, resistance, race, status, culture, education, and freedom. In the half-century covered by her study, Jamaican planters alternately saw enslaved children as burdens or investments. At the same time, the childhood experience was shaped by the ethnically, linguistically, and culturally diverse slave community. Vasconcellos adds detail and meaning to these tensions by looking, for instance, at enslaved children of color, legally termed mulattos, who had unique ties to both slave and planter families. In addition, she shows how traditions, beliefs, and practices within the slave community undermined planters' efforts to ensure a compliant workforce by instilling Christian values in enslaved children. These are just a few of the ways that Vasconcellos reveals an overlooked childhood—one that was often defined by Jamaican planters but always contested and redefined by the slaves themselves.
Main Currents in Caribbean Thought
Author: Gordon K. Lewis
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803280298
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Main Currents in Caribbean Thought probes deeply into the multicultural origins of Caribbean society, defining and tracing the evolution of the distinctive ideology that has arisen from the region’s unique historical mixture of peoples and beliefs. Among the topics that noted scholar Gordon K. Lewis covers are the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century beginnings of Caribbean thought, pro- and antislavery ideologies, the growth of Antillean nationalist and anticolonialist thought during the nineteenth century, and the development of the region’s characteristic secret religious cults from imported religions and European thought. Since its original publication in 1983, Main Currents in Caribbean Thought has remained one of the most ambitious works to date by a leader in modern Caribbean scholarship. By looking into the “Caribbean mind,” Lewis shows how European, African, and Asian ideas became creolized and Americanized, creating an entirely new ideology that continues to shape Caribbean thought and society today.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803280298
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Main Currents in Caribbean Thought probes deeply into the multicultural origins of Caribbean society, defining and tracing the evolution of the distinctive ideology that has arisen from the region’s unique historical mixture of peoples and beliefs. Among the topics that noted scholar Gordon K. Lewis covers are the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century beginnings of Caribbean thought, pro- and antislavery ideologies, the growth of Antillean nationalist and anticolonialist thought during the nineteenth century, and the development of the region’s characteristic secret religious cults from imported religions and European thought. Since its original publication in 1983, Main Currents in Caribbean Thought has remained one of the most ambitious works to date by a leader in modern Caribbean scholarship. By looking into the “Caribbean mind,” Lewis shows how European, African, and Asian ideas became creolized and Americanized, creating an entirely new ideology that continues to shape Caribbean thought and society today.
My Political Journey
Author: Percival James Patterson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789766407018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
My Political Journey: Jamaica's Sixth Prime Minister is P.J. Patterson's account of his time as an active and successful participant in the political and social development of Jamaica and the Caribbean from the mid-1950s well into the early 2000s. He was widely regarded as a master political strategist and universally acknowledged as an astute negotiator. Jamaica is an enigma: its global impact belies its population and geographical size. This story of one of its most exceptional citizens is an enlightening revelation of the island's political and cultural narrative. Patterson was born in 1935, the dawn of a new era in the development of Jamaica and the Caribbean. A previously disenfranchised population would gain a voice through universal adult suffrage and have a say in the direction of the nation's affairs. Within a few decades, an independent nation would emerge to make a significant impact on the global landscape. Patterson is both a product of this new Jamaica and one of its architects, and his is a compelling and intimate account of a dramatic era for the young nation. P.J. Patterson led his country with distinction, implementing policies and programmes to foster social renewal and the development of a modern Jamaica that was prepared to face the challenges of the new millennium. Throughout his career in the People's National Party, he gained international respect through the pivotal roles he played in the advancement of the causes of the developing countries of the world. My Political Journey recounts his performance at the national, regional and global levels and is a fascinating record of a nation's postcolonial growth.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789766407018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
My Political Journey: Jamaica's Sixth Prime Minister is P.J. Patterson's account of his time as an active and successful participant in the political and social development of Jamaica and the Caribbean from the mid-1950s well into the early 2000s. He was widely regarded as a master political strategist and universally acknowledged as an astute negotiator. Jamaica is an enigma: its global impact belies its population and geographical size. This story of one of its most exceptional citizens is an enlightening revelation of the island's political and cultural narrative. Patterson was born in 1935, the dawn of a new era in the development of Jamaica and the Caribbean. A previously disenfranchised population would gain a voice through universal adult suffrage and have a say in the direction of the nation's affairs. Within a few decades, an independent nation would emerge to make a significant impact on the global landscape. Patterson is both a product of this new Jamaica and one of its architects, and his is a compelling and intimate account of a dramatic era for the young nation. P.J. Patterson led his country with distinction, implementing policies and programmes to foster social renewal and the development of a modern Jamaica that was prepared to face the challenges of the new millennium. Throughout his career in the People's National Party, he gained international respect through the pivotal roles he played in the advancement of the causes of the developing countries of the world. My Political Journey recounts his performance at the national, regional and global levels and is a fascinating record of a nation's postcolonial growth.