Colin Clarke

Race, Class, and the Politics of Decolonization (eBook, PDF)

Jamaica Journals, 1961 and 1968

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a detailed picture of Jamaica before and after independence. A 1961 journal sheds light on the political and social context before independence, while a 1968 journal shows how independence dissolved dissident forces and identifies the origins of Jamaica's current two party politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137540782
• Artikelnr.: 44229493

Autorenporträt

Colin Clarke is an Emeritus Professor at Oxford University and an Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, UK. He is a Caribbeanist and his research interests are in race, ethnicity, and class in urban and rural communities and national contexts. His most recent publications include Decolonizing the Colonial City: Urbanization and Stratification in Kingston, Jamaica (2006) and, with Gillian Clarke, Post-Colonial Trinidad: An Ethnographic Journal (2010).

Rezensionen

"The diaries are supplemented by comprehensive footnotes and several fairly short elaborations, and there is a thorough introduction that seeks to position the diaries in their historical and political contexts. ... they provide a record of interesting and turbulent times in Jamaica's social and political history ... . these diaries tell us much of note about a decolonising and postcolonial society, about the author himself, and about how the two came together at a particular moment in time." (David Dodman, Bulletin of Latin America Research, Vol. 36 (4), 2017)