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Publications. The Jamaica Journal is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Institute of Jamaica since 1967. It publishes scholarly articles on the history, natural history, science, art, literature, music, and culture of Jamaica. The Jamaica Journal is the Caribbean’s leading cultural publication on Jamaican Heritage, contemporary ...
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The Caribbean’s leading cultural publication on Jamaican Heritage. The Jamaica Journal is a peer-reviewed academic journal, featuring scholarly articles on Jamaica’s history, natural history, science, art, literature, music, and culture. The Back issues are available for research purpose on the Digital Library of the Caribbean “DLOC”.
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Jamaica, one of the Greater Antilles, is situated south of Cuba. Divided into fourteen parishes, it is 4,244 square miles (10,990 square kilometers) in area. In 1872, Kingston, with a quarter of the population, became the capital. Demography. The population in 1998 was 2.75 million.
Fast facts about the geography, people, and political parties are provided that give a broad overview of Jamaica. In addition, several articles discuss the influences on Jamaican folk tradition, the differences between the Arawak and Taíno, and the importance of caves to the culture, including a list of petroglyph and pictographic sites.
- Kai Alexis Smith
- 2016
- Historical Antecedents of Race-Making
- Nation-Building Ideology
- Contemporary Racial Dynamics
- Analytical Distinctions Between Racial Category and Skin Color
- The Present Study
The racialized demography of the Caribbean, also found in all the greater Americas, is rooted in the region’s colonized past. During periods of colonization, the differences between West Africans and Europeans “were rendered by the dominant Europeans in terms of ‘race’ as evidenced in color and other attributes imagined and construed to ideological...
Despite the presence of a clear racialized hierarchy, 20th-century Jamaican elites led nation-making projects to unify people from different racial backgrounds. Towards that end, elite actors promoted a creole or multi-racial framing of population diversity in Jamaica (Levi 1992; Meeks 2000; Smith 1990; Thame 2017; Thomas 2002, 2004) that was aided...
Colonial racial structuring and post-abolition nation-building set the stage for contemporary racial dynamics in Jamaica and continue to robustly shape the country’s social fabric. This structuring manifests itself at many different levels, including the continuance of racial discrimination, the privileging of a myriad of descriptive terms for skin...
As evidenced in the abovementioned historical and contemporary racial dynamics in Jamaica, race is ever-present, though often only implicitly. Descriptor terms, which are perceived by many as neutral and often referring to color, explicitly avoid racial terms or categories, such as black and white. Hence, one of the analytical strategies in this pa...
The context of Jamaica’s racial dynamics is generally understood from the class-dominant ideology of racial mixing, at least in official or elite discourse, and is thus viewed as non-racial by virtue of its racial homogeneity. This non-racial framing operates on the island in the form of loose racial categorizations and colloquial skin color design...
- Monique D. A. Kelly
- kellymo5@msu.edu
- 2020
Guy, Henry A, ed. Women of Distinction in Jamaica 301.412097292 Ja Wom. Handbook of Jamaica (1881 – 1969 & 71) (Microfilm available) H354. Jamaica Gleaner Directory of Personalities (1981-2002)* 920 Ja Jam *Except years 1983, 1984, 1988, 1989, 1994, 1997, 2000) Lawrence, Archer. Monumental Inscriptions of British West Indies, Barbados & Jamaica
Apr 10, 2024 · primary sources related to Central, Latin & South America. Suggested terms to look for include - diary, diaries, letters, papers, documents, documentary or correspondence.
