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Bennett, Hazel E. "A history of libraries in Jamaica, 1697-1987." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1987. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/7497.
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The History traces the development of libraries in Jamaica from the late seventeenth century to the present day. It examines reasons for the spate of anti-popery material in the earliest collections, and treats the subsequent story within the context of socio-economic conditions. Note is taken of the efforts of Ministers of Religion to inculcate the habit of reading among both the white and black population, as a means of improving their minds and strengthening their moral fibre. Increasing respect for books and demand for information appear, as the country puts aside its colonial status and assumes responsibility for its own destiny. The History documents the growth of the Jamaica Library Service, the emergence of the National Library of Jamaica, and the establishment of NACOLADS (the National Council on Libraries, Archives and Documentation Services) now regarded as a model for such development in the Third World.
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Ringenberg, Roger. "A history of Jamaica Theological Seminary, 1960-1992." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.
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Milson-Whyte, Vivette Ruth. "A History of Writing Instruction for Jamaican University Students: A Case for Moving beyond the Rhetoric of Transparent Disciplinarity at The University of the West Indies, Mona." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194079.
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In this dissertation, I trace academics' attitudes to writing and its instruction through the six-decade history of The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, in Jamaica. I establish that while the institution's general writing courses facilitate students' initiation into the academy, these courses reflect assumptions about writing and learning that need to be reassessed to yield versatile writers and disassociate the courses and writing from the alarmist rhetoric that often emerges in the media and in academe. In Jamaica, critics of university students' writing often promote what Mike Rose calls the "myth of transience" and perpetuate the "the rhetoric of transparent disciplinarity." According to the myth of transience, if writing is taught correctly at pre-university levels, students will not need writing instruction in the academy. The concept that I call "the rhetoric of transparent disciplinarity" is defined in the work of David Russell, who examines the view that writing is a single, mechanical, generalizable skill that is learned once and for all. Advocates of this view consider writing as a transparent recording of reality or completed thought that can be taught separate from disciplinary knowledge. Based on my analysis of archival materials and data gathered from questionnaires and interviews with past and current writing specialists, this view has been evident at the UWI, Mona, since the institution's earliest years. Academics there have perpetuated a certain tacit assumption that writing is a natural process. By recalling the country's history of education, I demonstrate how this assumption parallels colonial administrators' determination that Jamaican Creole speakers should naturally learn English to advance in society. I argue that if the university wants to widen participation while maintaining excellence, then academics should foster knowledge production (rather than only reproduction) by acknowledging the extent to which disciplines are rhetorically constructed through writing. If writing specialists and other content faculty draw on rhetoric's attention to audience, situation, and purpose, they can foster learning by helping students see how writing contributes to knowledge-making inside the academy and beyond. This study contributes to international discussions about how students learn to write and use writing in higher education.
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Williams, Jan Mark. "Stretching the Chains: Runaway Slaves in South Carolina and Jamaica." W&M ScholarWorks, 1991. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625689.
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Powell, Steven. "Dread rites : an account of Rastafarian music and ritual process in popular culture." Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=55647.
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Kelly, Kenneth Goodley. "Historic Archaeology of Jamaican Tenant-Manager Relations: A Case Study from Drax Hall and Seville Estates, St Ann, Jamaica." W&M ScholarWorks, 1989. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625497.
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Lewis, Jovan Scott. "Sufferer's market : sufferation and economic ethics in Jamaica." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2014. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3497/.
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In Jamaica the economic environment is characterized by abiding foreign dependence, stagnant growth, and deficient development. This thesis, based on fifteen months of fieldwork in Montego Bay is concerned with the everyday understanding and management of Jamaica's adverse economy. This is explored through an ethnographic analysis of economic practice among five groups variously involved in Montego Bay's tourist sector. These groups include Sindhi merchants, local craft vendors, an artisan cooperative, a Rastafarian tour village, and local lottery scammers. Their dynamic case studies illustrate a diverse set of responses to the constricted political, economic, and social structures of the Jamaican economy, depicted as one of comprehensive and inescapable precariousness, or as a state of sufferation. This thesis examines these groups' everyday strategies and ethics of survival in sufferation, which include articulations of market failure, production, commercial skill, cultural property, and capital seizure. From these strategies emerges an understanding of how notions of history, citizenship, race, and cooperation structure the formation of economic practice, and bear upon constructions of the market.
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Williams, Stephanie E. (Stephanie Evangeline). "On folk music as the basis of a Jamaican primary school music programme." Thesis, McGill University, 1985. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=63211.
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Reid, Ahmed N. "Economic growth in a slave plantation society : the case of Jamaica, 1750-1805." Thesis, University of Hull, 2007. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:16426.
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This dissertation is an economic impact assessment of Jamaica's plantation economy from 1750 to 1805. In doing so, it measures and examines growth in completely new ways by employing, as indicators, output, land prices, labour flows and prices, national income, and productivity trends. The study maintains that, rather than declining, the economy was growing, with most of that growth taking place during the decade before the Transatlantic Trade in Africans was abolished in 1807. Growth was also facilitated by the policies adopted by planters to reorganize the plantation system. The presence of enslaved labour did not render the system inefficient. In fact, the economic reality was quite the opposite. The conclusion, therefore, is that with sufficient evidence of growth and productivity, abolition was not predicated only on negative cost benefit considerations.
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Lapp-Szymanski, Jean-Paul. "Technology inna rub-a-dub style : technology and dub in the Jamaican sound system and recording studio." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=98547.
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This thesis attempts to chart the development of a Jamaican musical form known as dub. This development is considered primarily in terms of the island's encounter with a series of new playback, amplification, recording, and sound treatment technologies. Section I focuses on the formation of the Jamaican sound system (a network of powerful mobile discos) and its pivotal role in the birth of a fertile domestic record industry. Section II extends the investigation to the Jamaican recording studio and record industry. What distinguishes this work from others on Jamaican dub is its emphasis on technology, and theories of technology, within a geo-political framework. In Section I, this emphasis is most notably informed by the work of Harold Innis, Karl Marx and Lewis Mumford, with Marshall McLuhan and Walter Benjamin becoming more prominent in Section II. Key technologies in this analysis include mechanization (mechanical reproducibility), the Williamson amplification circuit, the House of Joy speaker, the dub plate (acetate phonograph) and vinyl record, twin-turntables and the microphone, the magnetic tape recorder, and perhaps most importantly, the multi-track recorder and interface (the multi-track mixing-board).
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Trahey, Erin Malone. "Free women and the making of colonial Jamaican economy and society, 1760-1834." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/285098.
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This study considers the social and economic lives of free women in Jamaica from 1760 to 1834. Throughout the period studied Jamaica was Britain's most important imperial holding. The colony's slave economy, driven by the labour of hundreds of thousands of enslaved men and women, generated incredible wealth. Still, Jamaica was the deadliest place to live in British America. Due to the endemic nature of tropical disease and atrocious mortality rates, neither the enslaved population nor the white population maintained itself naturally prior to emancipation. However, an environment characterized by death and demographic crisis engendered heightened opportunities for women to take part in tropical enterprise and to shape the futures of their families. Inheritance norms were weakened by the omnipresence of death, precipitating more generous inheritance bequests for women and a greater role given to wives and daughters-both white women, and those of mixed-race descent-in tropical commerce. Additionally, as slave ownership was not limited by gender or race, free women of all races took part in the slave economy. Free women's visibility in the island's formal as well as informal economies, and the wealth accumulated by some, was unsurpassed in a British American context. However, in this slave society, free women's prosperity rested upon the exploitation and oppression of others. In contrast to familiar historical trajectories that have presented Caribbean participation in Atlantic markets of slavery and capital as male-driven ventures, this study argues that free women of all races were vital participants in the slave economy and principle beneficiaries of plantation profits. This project moves beyond previous studies on women in colonial Jamaica by revealing how women's enterprise and relations with one another shaped the nature of this economy and society, including the commercial, familial and kin networks that bound it together. In doing so, it enhances our understanding of this colony and the operation of race and gendered power within it.
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Day, Thomas R. "Jamaican Revolts in British Press and Politics, 1760-1865." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4089.
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This research examines the changes over time in British Newspaper reports covering the Jamaican rebellions of 1760, 1832 and 1865. The uprisings: Tacky’s Rebellion, the Baptist War and the Morant Bay Rebellion respectively, represented three key moments in the history of race, slavery and the British Empire. Though all three rebellions have been studied, this work compares the three events as moments of crisis challenging the British public discourse on slavery, race and subjecthood as it related to the changing Atlantic Empire. British newspapers provided the most direct way in which popular readers and the growing literate public examined and explored distant relations with colonial peoples. This research sheds light on the significant impact these rebellions had on rhetorical choices regarding race and slavery, and establishes that by forcing a public discourse on the topics of subjecthood and race, the rebellions in Jamaica had a dramatic trans-Atlantic impact.
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Collier, Michael W. "Political corruption in the Caribbean basin : a comparative analysis of Jamaica and Costa Rica." FIU Digital Commons, 2000. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2408.
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Political corruption in the Caribbean Basin retards state economic growth and development, undermines government legitimacy, and threatens state security. In spite of recent anti-corruption efforts of intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations (IGO/NGOs), Caribbean political corruption problems appear to be worsening in the post-Cold War period. This dissertation discovers why IGO/NGO efforts to arrest corruption are failing by investigating the domestic and international causes of political corruption in the Caribbean. The dissertation’s theoretical framework centers on an interdisciplinary model of the causes of political corruption built within the rule-oriented constructivist approach to social science. The model first employs a rational choice analysis that broadly explains the varying levels of political corruption found across the region. The constructivist theory of social rules is then used to develop the structural mechanisms that further explain the region’s levels of political corruption. The dissertation advances its theory of the causes of political corruption through qualitative disciplined-configurative case studies of political corruption in Jamaica and Costa Rica. The dissertation finds that IGO/NGO sponsored anti-corruption programs are failing because they employ only technical measures (issuing anti-corruption laws and regulations, providing transparency in accounting procedures, improving freedom of the press, establishing electoral reforms, etc.). While these IGO/NGO technical measures are necessary, they are not sufficient to arrest the Caribbean’s political corruption problems. This dissertation concludes that to be successful, IGO/NGO anti-corruption programs must also include social measures, e.g., building civil societies and modernizing political cultures, for there to be any hope of lowering political corruption levels and improving Caribbean social conditions. The dissertation also highlights the key role of Caribbean governing elite in constructing the political and economic structures that cause their states’ political corruption problems.
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Nicholas, Phillip Bancroft. "Across The Atlantic To Jamaica: Enslavement And Cultural Transformations Of The Gold Coast Diaspora During The 18th Century." W&M ScholarWorks, 2020. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1616444490.
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As the Asante emerged in the 18th century as a political dominant state and continued to expand and consolidate territory in the Gold Coast, the defeated enemies were enslaved and forcibly transported to slave markets. Simultaneously, coastal people in Fante territory convicted of crimes for violating social and cultural norms or kidnapped by private coastal agents were enslaved and taken to slave markets where European buyers purchased them. Those casualties of war and coastal captives were ripped from their families, communities, and culture in the Gold Coast, and then experienced further isolation during the middle passage. The Gold Coast captives shipped to and sold in Jamaica had to adapt to their new environment while encountering white oppression and attempts to control their agency. The slaves’ initial responses against white supremacy were isolated resistances. Despite being separated from their homes, families, and communities, Gold Coast slaves in the mid to late 18th century Jamaica changed their tactical approach against white supremacy by establishing bonds with their former enemies and different ethnic groups. From those new collectives, the isolated resistance expanded to encompass larger geographical territory. In the process, a cultural transformation emerged as Gold Coast slaves shared their customs, rituals, and traditions with Igbo, Congo, and Creole, Jamaican-born slaves to survive in Jamaica.
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Ono-George, Meleisa. "'To be despised' : discourses of sexual-economic exchange in nineteenth-century Jamaica, c.1780-1890." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2014. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/69375/.
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This thesis is concerned with the changes and continuities in the discourses surrounding sexual-economic exchange in colonial Jamaica in the ‘long’ nineteenth century. More specifically, it explores the shifting relationship between representations of concubinage and street-based sexual labour amongst women of African ancestry and broader socio-cultural and political developments in Jamaica from the 1780s to the 1890s. The central argument of the thesis is that heightened discussions about sexual-economic exchange amongst local and imperial elites reflected concerns about race, labour, disease and civilization in the colony. Further, as Jamaica transitioned from a slave society to free and modern nation, the operation of sexual-economic exchange became an increasingly regulated and stigmatized form of sexual praxis amongst poor, subordinate women. Drawing on the theoretical framework developed by feminist scholars in the emerging subfield of Caribbean Sexualities, this thesis examines practices of sexual-economic exchange in nineteenth-century Jamaica as a form of women’s labour. While it recognizes the centrality of sexual violence and rape in the lives of poor, subordinate women, particularly during the period of slavery, this thesis seeks to broaden the discussions of black and brown women’s sexual experiences within the historiography of slave and post-slavery Caribbean societies. Thus, one of the central premises of this thesis is that despite the confines of slavery, patriarchy, and colonialism, some women engaged in transactional sex as a means of achieving financial stability and social mobility. In this way, this thesis contributes to emerging research on the centrality of sexual praxis to the developments and transformations in Jamaican society.
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Sivapragasam, Michael. "After the treaties : a social, economic and demographic history of Maroon society in Jamaica, 1739-1842." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2018. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/423482/.
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This study is built on an investigation of a large number of archival sources, but in particular the Journals and Votes of the House of the Assembly of Jamaica, drawn from resources in Britain and Jamaica. Using data drawn from these primary sources, I assess how the Maroons of Jamaica forged an identity for themselves in the century under slavery following the peace treaties of 1739 and 1740. I will argue that the story of the Maroons of Jamaica is more complicated than previously thought. First, I analyse the origins of the Maroons, and the circumstances that led to them signing peace treaties with the colonial authorities. Second, I consider how the white superintendents usurped the authority of the Maroons in five official towns. Third, I scrutinize the Maroon response to the requirements of the treaties concerning suppressing slave revolts and hunting runaway slaves. Fourth, I examine the relationship between Trelawny Town and the colonial authorities. This allows me to demonstrate that while the colonial elite made concessions over land disputes with other Maroon towns, their reluctance to do so with Trelawny Town eventually culminated in the Second Maroon War of 1795-6. Fifth, I consider the relationship between Trelawny Town and runaway slaves, and the effect it had on the rise in runaway communities in western Jamaica in the nineteenth century. Finally, I explore the changing relationship between the Maroons remaining in Jamaica and the colonial authorities in the aftermath of the Second Maroon War. As a whole, my PhD challenges the simplistic view of the Maroons as collaborators, and argues that their story was a complex one of divisions between Maroon towns, a lack of coherence, and they were often inefficient hunters of runaways. The Maroons sometimes collaborated with the colonial authorities, and then assisted runaways to escape during the Second Maroon War.
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Scribellito, Giorgia <1981>. "An analysis of Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place (1988): Between History and Auto-Biography, Modernism and Postmodernism." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/4693.
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This thesis is an analyses of the book by Jamaica Kincaid entitled A Small Place. Although this book has spurred some controversies because of its critical tone,I argue that it is in fact a very important book for literature. It helps understand Jamaica Kincaid's literary production and it also revisits some important notions such as history and feminism in a postcolonial key. Thus, Kincaid provides an innovative interpretation of gender and of what history means and is, as well as of colonialism and neo-colonialism. The book starts from the situation of Antiguans today but it provides a wider insight into the situation of the Caribbean region. It also establishes links between the situation of black Antiguans and that of other populations who have suffered from slavery and colonialism. I analyze the book in itself and within the context of Kincaid’s literary production. I consider the context in which the book was written and what it tells about the life and thoughts of the author. I use the thought of some famous Caribbean thinkers such as Edouard Glissant to shed light on some aspects of Kincaid’s thought.
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Malaki, Akhil. "Informal Finance and Microfinance in Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago : An Institutional Study." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis : Almqvist & Wiksell International [distributör], 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-766.
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McCullough, Kayli L. "Lady Maria Nugent: A Woman's Approach to the British Empire." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1345068824.
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Rosa, Maristane de Sousa. "O REGGAE NA “JAMAICA BRASILEIRA”: cidadania e política a partir de letras musicais." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, 2009. http://localhost:8080/tede/handle/tede/3427.
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Previous issue date: 2009-12-18<br>The city of St. Louis was seduced by a rhythm that captured the soul of a large population of
low income black Maranhao, the reggae. Once nominated Brazilian in Athens, City of Tiles,
Island of Love, the capital of Maranhão has given the codename of 'Brazilian Jamaica', in
reference to music of the Caribbean that are proliferating in every corner of the island. The
Culture from Maranhão - widely recognized by the drum-to-Creole, the bumba-meu-boi, the
cacuriá, the Feast of the Divine and terreiros Mine - now, therefore, to be represented by
reggae, which came in waves of the cultural industry from the mid-l970. Although disputed
by some advocates of "cultural authenticity", the Jamaican roots were adopted by large
segments of the population and the Ludovicense black youth, becoming an important element
of ethnic identity and leisure. This dissertation investigates mystical characteristics, religious
and political inequalities that condemn ethnic and social differences, from the lyrics and
music played widely known in the city and showing how the Jeje diaspora overcome
problems of construction of identity, to incorporate the reggae as its cultural heritage. The
results collected in the ethnographic field research indicate the broad social significance of
this heritage, embodied in rituals, in Pan-African colors and recurring images of lion-man
who has set propitious scenario for claims of citizenship and political rights. The phenomenon
studied provides visibility to the bluff of traditions attributed to a restricted social group
dominant in Maranhão and processes of "cleaning" historically experienced by Africans and
descendants. To better situate the complex social and symbolic in which the party was
conceived and established as language identity, this interpretative bias resubmit the Jamaican
rhythm, seeking the roots in Ancient Egypt to the aesthetic use of Dreadlocks and the ancient
rite of passage from a Masai people emblematic figure of the lion.<br>A cidade de São Luís foi seduzida por um ritmo que conquistou a alma de grande parte da
população maranhense negra de baixa renda, o reggae. Outrora nomeada de Atenas Brasileira,
Cidade dos Azulejos, Ilha do Amor, a capital do Maranhão passou a receber o codinome de
'Jamaica brasileira', em menção à música do Caribe que se proliferou por todos os cantos da
ilha. A cultura maranhense - amplamente reconhecida pelo tambor-de-crioula, o bumba-meuboi,
o cacuriá, a Festa do Divino e os terreiros Mina - passou, assim, a ser representada pelo
reggae, que veio nas ondas da indústria cultural a partir de meados da década de l970. Apesar
de contestado por alguns defensores da “autenticidade cultural”, o roots jamaicano foi
adotado por amplos segmentos da população e da juventude negra ludovicense, tornando-se
um importante elemento de lazer e identidade étnica. Esta dissertação investiga características
místicas, religiosas e políticas que denunciam desigualdades étnicas e sociais, partindo das
letras musicais amplamente tocadas e conhecidas na cidade e revelando como a diáspora jeje
superou problemas de construção da identidade, ao incorporar o reggae como seu patrimônio
cultural. Os resultados colhidos na pesquisa de campo etnográfica indicam o amplo
significado social deste patrimônio, materializado nos rituais, nas roupas coloridas com cores
panafricanas e nas recorrentes imagens de lion-man que passou a configurar cenário propício
para reivindicações de cidadania e direitos políticos. O fenômeno estudado fornece
visibilidade ao blefe de tradições atribuídas a um restrito grupo social dominante no
Maranhão e aos processos de “higienização” vivenciados historicamente pelos africanos e
descendentes. Para melhor situar a complexidade social e simbólica na qual o reggae foi
concebido e estabelecido como linguagem identitária, este viés interpretativo reapresenta o
ritmo jamaicano, buscando no Egito Antigo as raízes estéticas para o uso dos dreadlocks e no
milenar ritual de passagem do povo Masai a figura emblemática do leão.
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Werden-Greenfield, Ariella. "Warriors and Prophets of Livity: Samson and Moses as Moral Exemplars in Rastafari." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2016. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/404360.
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Religion<br>Ph.D.<br>Since the early 1970’s, Rastafari has enjoyed public notoriety disproportionate to the movement’s size and humble origins in the slums of Kingston, Jamaica roughly forty years earlier. Yet, though numerous academics study Rastafari, a certain lacuna exists in contemporary scholarship in regards to the movement’s scriptural basis. By interrogating Rastafari’s recovery of the Hebrew Bible from colonial powers and Rastas’ adoption of an Israelite identity, this dissertation illuminates the biblical foundation of Rastafari ethics and symbolic registry. An analysis of the body of scholarship on Rastafari, as well as of the reggae canon, reveals the centrality of an Israelite identity for Rastas and its enabling of Rastafari resistance to racial oppression. Furthermore, the Hebrew Bible is, for Rastas, key to an intimate relationship with Jah, for it reveals their chosenness and their inherent divine nature. They both textually confirm this election and enact it through ritual practice. By interrogating the methods Rastas apply to the pages of the Bible in order to ascertain their appointment and decipher proper ritual practice, this dissertation expands scholarly conversations about Rastafari biblical hermeneutics. Centering on readings of Samson and Moses, it suggests that these two biblical actors function as moral exemplars and models of livity for Rastas. Despite the transgressive nature of Samson and Moses, Rastas adopt them as co-practitioners and paradigms of Rastafari election because when Samson and Moses are Rastas, all Rastas can claim their chosenness, strength, and relationship with Jah.<br>Temple University--Theses
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Davis, Christopher Anderson. "The Racial Equation: Pan-Atlantic Eugenics, Race, And Colonialism in the Early Twentieth Century British Caribbean." FIU Digital Commons, 2018. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3899.
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This dissertation explores the intellectual discourse on race in the early twentieth century, particularly from 1919 to 1958, examining how British and American eugenicists and Caribbean nationalists debated the limits of colonial politics in the British Caribbean using academic and scientific language. These discussions emerged in the aftermath of World War I, the economic crises that led to the Great Depression, the political and labor unrest in the British Caribbean, and consequences of the Second World War. The dissertation’s goal is to examine how residents of the British Caribbean understood, appropriated, and challenged some of the principles of eugenics, particularly those espousing ideas of white superiority. The dissertation has taken great consideration of both private and published sources from white and black intellectuals in the Anglophone Caribbean to document the dissemination of concepts of race, ethnicity, and identity in the region during the interwar period. Additionally, focusing on such critical areas as education and social policies, it explores whether eugenic ideas influenced the twentieth-century governance of British West Indian colonies.
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Alford, Brandon Wade. "Robert Searle and the Rise of the English in the Caribbean." UNF Digital Commons, 2019. https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/885.
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This research examines the career of Robert Searle, an English privateer, that conducted state-sponsored attacks against the Spanish and Dutch in the Caribbean from 1655 to 1671. Set within the Buccaneering Period of the Golden Age of Piracy (1650-1680), Robert Searle’s personal actions contributed to the rise of the English in the Caribbean to a position of dominance over Spain, which dominated the region from 1492 until the 1670s. Searle serves as a window into the contributions of thousands of nameless men who journeyed to the Caribbean as a member of Oliver Cromwell’s Western Design Fleet. These men failed in their endeavor to take Hispaniola from the Spanish, successfully invaded Jamaica, and spent the next fifteen years securing England’s largest possession in the region, transitioning Jamaica from a military outpost to a successful plantation colony. These men, including Searle himself, have been overshadowed in the history of English Jamaica by more well-known figures such as Sir Henry Morgan, the famed “Admiral of the Buccaneers.”
Searle and his compatriots pursued the objectives of the core in London throughout the contested periphery of the Caribbean region. These goals were first framed as the complete destruction of the Spanish Empire in the Americas and later as achieving trade between Jamaica and Spain’s American colonies. The examination of Robert Searle through the core-periphery relationship between the metropole and the Caribbean illustrates how the totality of his actions contributed to the rising English position in the Caribbean. Ultimately, Searle and his fellow privateers proved vital to Spain conceding to England the rights of trade and formal recognition of their colonies in the region with a series of succeeding Treaties of Madrid.
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Upton, Corbett Earl 1970. "Canon and corpus: The making of American poetry." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11286.
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viii, 233 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.<br>This dissertation argues that certain iconic poems have shaped the canon of American poetry. Not merely "canonical" in the usual sense, iconic poems enjoy a special cultural sanction and influence; they have become discourses themselves, generating our notions about American poetry. By "iconic" I mean extraordinarily famous works like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride," Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself," and Claude McKay's "If We Must Die," that do not merely reside in the national memory but that have determined each poet's reception and thus have shaped the history of American poetry. Through case studies, I examine longstanding assumptions about these poets and the literary histories and myths surrounding their legendary texts. In carefully historicized readings of these and other iconic poems, I elucidate the pressure a single poem can exert on a poet's reputation and on American poetry broadly. I study the iconic poem in the context of the poet's corpus to demonstrate its role within the poet's oeuvre and the role assigned to it by canon makers. By tracing a poem's reception, I aim to identify the national, periodic, political, and formal boundaries these poems enforce and the distortions they create.
Because iconic poems often direct and justify our inclusions and exclusions, they are of particular use in clarifying persistent obstacles to the canon reformation work of the last thirty years. While anthologies have become more inclusive in their selections and self-conscious about their ideological motives, many of the practices regarding individual poets and poems have remained unchanged over the last fifty years. Even as we include more poets in the canon, we often ironically do so by isolating a particular portion of the career, impulse in the work, or even a single poem, narrowing rather than expanding the horizon of our national literature. Through close readings situated in historical and cultural contexts, I illustrate the varying effects of iconic poems on the poet, other poems, and literary history.<br>Committee in charge: Dr. Karen J. Ford, Chair;
Dr. John T. Gage, Member;
Dr. Ernesto J. Martinez, Member;
Dr. Leah W. Middlebrook, Outside Member
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Graham, Tracey E. "Jamaican migration to Cuba, 1912--1940." Thesis, The University of Chicago, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3557406.
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<p> This study helps to broaden a growing body of literature by examining the growth of an urban Jamaican community in the southeastern port of Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.</p><p> <i>Background:</i> When the British colony of Jamaica abolished slavery in 1838, the upper classes attempted to tie free workers to sugar plantations; ex–slaves attempted to move away from the estates as soon as possible. Despite an increase in internal migration after abolition, the majority of the black population remained in rural areas, and dedicated their labor to the land. The Jamaican elite successfully argued for the introduction of contract laborers from Asia as a replacement for the slavery system. It brought the planters some limited economic success as export crops—particularly sugar—had the chance to rebound, but planters used immigrants to drive down wages. Increasing population pressure on the land, a series of natural disasters, few economic opportunities, and ineligibility for political participation prompted Jamaicans to look outside of their homeland for socioeconomic improvement by the late 1800s. Travelers emigrated in significant numbers to Panama, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua with the hope of earning higher wages, sending remittances to family members, and returning home with enough money to live independently. As work on the Panama Canal ended by the 1910s, Jamaicans turned their sights back to the Caribbean. During the second half of the 19th century, Cuba was one of Spain's two remaining Caribbean colonies despite attempting several wars of independence. At the end of the final effort in 1898, the United States intervened against the metropolis; the two powers reached an agreement giving possession of Cuba to the US, who would help to establish political order and assist the islanders in ruling themselves. US investment in Cuban industry, especially in sugar, allowed foreigners to purchase enormous tracts of land and to influence the restructuring of the island's political, social, and economic landscape. The seasonal sugar cane harvest attracted foreign workers from Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean seeking better wages than what they could find at home; between 1912 and 1920, thousands of British West Indians traveled to Cuba to labor in the agricultural industry or to occupy niches in the service industry. </p><p> However, Cubans scrutinized and discriminated against them for being black, for being foreign, for driving down wages, or some combination thereof. Though Cubans claimed to live in a color-blind society, racial discrimination persisted and the white elite supported a policy of “whitening” the island through selective immigration from Spain and miscegenation; these racial and cultural prejudices were particularly divisive given that a significant percentage of Cubans were of African descent. Furthermore, the general population was frustrated by the lack of Cuban sovereignty and saw foreign workers as complicit in the US intervention. As a result, calls for nationalism tended to veer into xenophobia and racism during economic downturns in the early 1920s and 1930s. </p><p> <i>Methods/Sources:</i> Due to limited access to archival sources in Cuba, the bulk of the data is from the British National Archives: the consular reports summarized political and social upheaval in Cuba, collected publications from the Cuban government, and gave a perspective of the migration from the viewpoint of the British government. Similar information came from the U.S. National Archives at College Park, Maryland. The provincial archive of Santiago de Cuba provided information on migrant activities: marriage and citizenship documents; and social, cultural, and political organizations. It also yielded the Cuban government's responses to West Indian immigration. Correspondence between colonial officials and international organizations came from the Jamaican National Archives; the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona, held interviews of Jamaicans who lived during the period under study. Cuban and Jamaican newspaper reports detailed economic and political conditions in the two islands from journalists' investigations, letters from migrants, and governmental decrees. </p><p> <i>Findings:</i> I relate how different groups in Cuba reacted to Jamaican migration: the support for and against it, how this support changed over time, and how it differed by geography. I also attempt to give a fuller description of who these migrants were. I discuss their relationships with other West Indians and Cubans, their marriages, and the paths that they took to Cuban citizenship. How gender influenced and differentiated Jamaicans' experiences when they went abroad—how they were perceived and treated, and how they fared—receives special attention.</p><p> The work concludes by examining the reaction of the British officials who represented British West Indians in Cuba. It also puts the migration into a broader context by examining black British subjects who traveled to other parts of Latin America and the Caribbean during this era. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)</p>
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Stiles, Carol. "Vineyard: A Jamaican Cattle Pen, 1750-1751." W&M ScholarWorks, 1985. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625316.
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Padgett, Keith Wagner. "Sufferation, Han, and the Blues: Collective Oppression in Artistic and Theological Expression." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1276627655.
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Shepherd, Verene Albertha. "Pens and pen-keepers in a plantation society : aspects of Jamaican social and economic history, 1740-1845." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1988. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272366.
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Snyder, Amanda J. "Pirates, Exiles, and Empire: English Seamen, Atlantic Expansion, and Jamaican Settlement, 1558-1658." FIU Digital Commons, 2013. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/857.
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A life of piracy offered marginal men a profession with a degree of autonomy, despite the brand of “outlaw” and the fear of prosecution. At various times throughout history, governments and crowned heads suspended much of their piracy prosecution, licensing men to work as “privateers” for the state, supplementing naval forces. This practice has a long history, but in sixteenth-century England, Elizabeth I (1558-1603) significantly altered this tradition. Recognizing her own weakness in effectively prosecuting these men and the profit they could contribute to the government, Elizabeth began incorporating pirates into the English naval corps in peacetime—not just in war. This practice increased English naval resources, income, and presence in the emerging Atlantic World, but also increased conflict with the powerful Spanish empire.
By 1605, making peace with Spain, James VI/I (1603-1625) retracted Elizabeth’s privateering promotion, prompting an emigration of English seamen to the American outposts they had developed in the previous century. Now exiles, no longer beholden to the Crown, seamen reverted back to piracy. The Carolinas and Jamaica served as bases for these rover communities. In 1650, the revolutionary leader Oliver Cromwell (1649-1658) once again recognized the merits of such policies. Determined to demonstrate his authority and solidify his rule, Cromwell offered citizenship and state support to Caribbean exiles in exchange for their aiding of his navy in the taking of Spanish Jamaica. Official chartering of Port Royal, Jamaica served as reward for these men’s efforts and as the culmination of a century-long cycle of piracy legislation, creating one of England’s most lucrative colonies in the middle of a traditionally Spanish Caribbean empire.
Through legal and diplomatic records, correspondence, and naval and demographic records from England and Spain, this dissertation explores early modern piracy/privateering policy and its impact on the development of the Atlantic World. European disputes and imperial competition converged in these piracy debates with significant consequences for the definitions of criminality and citizenship and for the development of Atlantic empire.
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Kowalski, Amy B. "Breadnut Island Pen: Thomas Thistlewood's Jamaican Provisioning Estate, 1767-1768." W&M ScholarWorks, 1991. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625697.
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Steel, Mark James. "Power, prejudice and profit : the world view of the Jamaican slaveowning elite, 1788-1834." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.329104.
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Fenton, Connor. "’Wretched Petitioners’: Jamaican Maroon’s Petitions/ Catiline and Caesar in Early American Insults and the Whiskey Rebellion." W&M ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1516639575.
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The ‘Wretched Petitioners’: Jamaican Maroon’s Petitions, 1795-1800 In 1795 the Jamaican Maroons from Trelawney Town revolted against the British. The rebellion was short lived but sent shockwaves across the Island that saw the British Governor, Lord Balcarres, gather the Assembly of Jamaica and order the removal of the rebellious Maroons. The Jamaican Maroons responded to Barclarres, not with renewed violence, but with British legal strategies by employing petitions in order to try and salvage their stay on the Island. Sic Semper Tyrannis: Catiline and Caesar in Early American Insults, Allusions, and The Whiskey Rebellion, 1789-1804 The use of classical allusions in Early America was commonplace amongst elites. But the way these allusions were employed as insults during the Whiskey Rebellion helps to better understand what was at stake for both the rebels and the government trying to crush them.
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Huston, Annette. "British policy, Jamaican nationalism and the failure of the West Indies Federation 1945-1962." Thesis, This resource online, 1990. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06102009-063032/.
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Savery, Heidi. "The management and marketing of Jamaica's past archaeology and heritage tourism /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2009.
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Díaz, Muñoz Natalia. "Re-vivir el pasado, proyectar un futuro: escritura autobiográfica como estrategia para la reivindicación sexual en Autobiografía de mi madre de Jamaica Kincaid." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2014. http://www.repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/129942.
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Monsonego, Hélène. ""Demander, le sujet n'a jamais fait que ça. . . " : pour une histoire du concept de demande." Strasbourg 1, 1985. http://www.theses.fr/1985STR1M180.
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Kirkham, Stephanie. "Écriture féminine and Cixous' Voice-cry, in Marcelle Brisson's Plus jamais l'amour éternel and Daphne Marlatt's Ana historic." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0020/MQ46759.pdf.
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Kirkham, Stéphanie. "Écriture féminine and Cixous "Voice-Cry" in Marcelle Brisson's Plus jamais l'amour éternel and Daphne Marlatt's Ana Historic." Mémoire, Université de Sherbrooke, 1998. http://savoirs.usherbrooke.ca/handle/11143/2106.
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This thesis proposes a study of Hélène Cixous' theory of écriture féminine as applied to two novels, Plus jamais l'amour éternel by Marcelle Brisson and Ana Historic by Daphne Marlatt. It also aims to identify and elaborate Cixous' concept of a 'voice-cry', developed in her theoretical essay entitled La jeune née. Essential to Cixous' theory of an écriture féminine is a feminine libidinal economy which manifests itself in both genders as a form of 'dépense', a giving or 'life-giving' force within the text. It consists of drives and pulsions which challenge traditional grammatical and narrative structures and disrupt the linear trajectory and univocal authority of conventional discourses. Cixous' theory of a libidinal economy is often misinterpreted as an example of a biological essentialism because it recognises the feminine body as site and source of a potent energy which feeds the Imaginary. The Imaginary, banished from the dominant masculine Symbolic, and long repressed, is deprived of space in which to express its depth and diversity. It is within écriture féminine that the difference of the other is given free range to articulate and communicate its presence, and thus the body acknowledged as a prime factor in the elaboration of difference."--Résumé abrégé par UMI.
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Kirkham, Stéphanie. "Écriture féminine and Cixous' "Voice-Cry" in Marcelle Brisson's Plus jamais l'amour éternel and Daphne Marlatt's Ana Historic." Sherbrooke : Université de Sherbrooke, 1999.
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Hébert, Christine. "Là où la main de l'homme n'a jamais mis le pied : une netnographie des Duggies." Thesis, Université Laval, 2012. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2012/29323/29323.pdf.
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Bellotti, Michele. "Un livre jamais paru ? Le manuscrit Riccardiano 2354 et l’héritage épistolaire de Giorgio Vasari." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA153.
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Précieuse source d’informations sur l’auteur des Vies des meilleurs peintres, sculpteurs et architectes, la correspondance de Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) est bien connue des historiens de l’art depuis son édition par Karl Frey (1923-1930). La conservation rigoureuse de ses nombreuses lettres ainsi que la remarquable qualité stylistique d’une grande partie d’entre elles, invitent à s’interroger sur la valeur que Vasari lui-même pouvait attribuer à son écriture épistolaire. Voyait-il ses lettres comme une partie fondamentale de son legs culturel ? On peut se demander s’il avait pu caresser le projet de les publier sous forme de recueil, conformément à une pratique très diffusée chez les hommes doctes du XVIe siècle. C’est justement un recueil qui se distingue tout particulièrement au sein du riche carteggio vasarien : le manuscrit Riccardiano 2354, de la Bibliothèque Riccardiana de Florence. Datant de la fin du XVIe siècle, ce petit codex contient quarante-huit missives copiées par le neveu et principal hériter de l’artiste arétin, Giorgio Vasari le Jeune (1562-1625), fonctionnaire médicéen versé dans différents savoirs techniques et scientifiques. Cette étude analyse les opérations de sélection, de transcription et de possible transformation menées par Vasari le Jeune à partir des sources épistolaires originales de son oncle, aujourd’hui introuvables. Des indices matériels et textuels laissent penser que le volume de la Riccardiana pourrait avoir été conçu comme un « livre de lettres » destiné à la publication, mais finalement jamais paru. Une initiative éditoriale avortée donc, visant la célébration posthume de la vie et de l’œuvre de Vasari à travers la valorisation de son héritage épistolaire. La lecture croisée des textes du recueil et d’autres missives qui y furent exclues, permet de reconnaître, en amont de l’entreprise de Giorgio le Jeune, un dessein de reconstitution biographique qui privilégie certains aspects de la figure de Vasari, en omet d’autres et, parfois, plie l’héritage culturel de l’artiste aux exigences d’affirmation personnelle du neveu dans le contexte médicéen de son temps. La résultante principale de cette recherche est une réflexion sur les dynamiques propres à l’écriture épistolaire de Vasari, sur les fonctions diverses qu’elle pouvait endosser dans les différentes phases de sa carrière d’artiste et d’écrivain. Car la pratique épistolaire fut pour Vasari un outil privilégié pour la mise en représentation de soi vis-à-vis de son réseau de correspondants, pour l’apprentissage de la parole littéraire et pour l’élaboration des procédés de l’ekphrasis, plus largement développés dans les Vies<br>A valuable source of information on the author of The Lives of the Artists, the correspondence of Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) is well known to art historians, mainly since its almost complete edition published by Karl Frey (1923-1930). If we consider the fact that Vasari zealously kept his numerous letters during his whole life, as well as the remarkable stylistic quality of many of these texts, we realise the importance of inquiring into how significant his epistolary writing could have been to him. Did Vasari see his missives as an essential part of his cultural legacy? In this case, it has to be questioned whether the artist could have ever conceived the project of publishing a selection of his letters, in accordance with a widespread practice among literates in the Fifteenth century. A collection of Vasari’s letters was actually gathered and still stands out from the large number of documents of his vast carteggio: it’s the manuscript Riccardiano 2354, held by the Biblioteca Riccardiana in Florence. Dating from the late Fifteenth century, this small codex contains forty-eight letters posthumously copied by the artist’s nephew and principal heir of his estate, Giorgio Vasari the Younger (1562-1625), an official of the Medicean Court deeply versed in several scientific and technical disciplines. This study investigates the process of selection, transcription and possible manipulation conducted by Vasari the Younger on his uncle’s original epistolary sources, which are nowadays still missing. Several material or textual hints can suggest that the Riccardiana’s volume might have been a “libro di lettere”, a book of letters designed for publication, but finally never printed. The chief aim of this editorial effort would have been a posthumous celebration of Vasari’s life and artistic achievements, through the highlighting of his missives. The comparison between the texts included in the Riccardiana’s manuscript and other excluded letters, allows us to recognise, as the essential mainstay in Giorgio the Younger’s work, the design of a biographical depiction of Vasari’s figure, focusing on specific traits and omitting others. The artist’s epistolary legacy seems to be occasionally subject to his nephew’s personal career requirements in the Medicean context of his time. The result of this research is a series of considerations on the dynamics inherent in Vasari’s epistolary writing, such as the various functions that it could assume according to the different phases of the artist’s career. Epistolarity has been Vasari’s main tool for self-fashioning towards his correspondents; as well as for literary learning and for the conception of the device of ekphrasis, developed on a larger scale in the Lives
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Eybalin, Casseus Clara Rachel. "Les migrants, acteurs transnationaux du développement : Les associations haïtiennes en France et jamaïcaines au Royaume-Uni." Thesis, Poitiers, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013POIT5017.
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Dans un contexte où l'importance croissante de la mondialisation des flux migratoires en provenance de la région caraïbéenne s'intensifie et se diversifie, une prise en compte plus détaillée de l'évolution des stratégies de migrants au sein des sociétés d'accueil et de leur impact socioéconomique et politique sur les sociétés de départ s'impose. Notre thèse déclinée en trois parties s'inscrit précisément dans une réflexion sur l'engagement associatif à distance du migrant-acteur haïtien et jamaïcain, dans un cadre institutionnel français pour l'un et britannique pour l'autre. Au cœur d'un dispositif qui lie responsables locaux du pays d'origine et élus de la société d'accueil mettant en interaction différentes formes d'intervention de l'État d'origine, comment donc ce dernier peut-il alors agir et avoir un rôle incitatif en favorisant la participation de cette communauté transnationale ou encore en coordonnant des actions des associations de migrants ? En quoi le cadre associatif transnational est-il favorable au développement dans le contexte haïtien / jamaïcain ? En considérant l'émergence puis l'évolution du tissu associatif haïtien en terre française, et celles du tissu associatif jamaïcain en terre britannique, nous avons voulu chercher à comprendre les motivations derrière l'engagement de porter des projets de développement dans le pays d'origine. Notre travail de terrain, ainsi que notre dispositif méthodologique dans une approche de terrain multi-situé, nous a permis de mieux saisir les mécanismes de solidarité collective et de mise en commun de ressources. Partant d'un fait observé, une dynamique associative, qui s'est amplifiée au lendemain du séisme en Haïti<br>In a context where the growing importance of the globalization of migratory flows from the Caribbean region is intensifying and diversifying, a detailed attention on the evolution of migrants' strategies within host societies as well as their socioeconomic and political impact on the origin societies is required. Our thesis in three parts inscribes itself in a reflection on long-distance associative engagement of the Haitian and Jamaican migrant-actor, in a French institutional framework as well as a British one. At the heart of a model between local officials of the country of origin and elected officials of the host society, how can it act in an incentive capacity to foster or to better coordinate the actions taken by migrants' associations? How can a transnational associative framework be beneficiary to the development in the Haitian/Jamaican context? In considering the emergence and evolution of the Haitian associative landscape (France) and Jamaican (the United Kingdom), we wanted to understand the motivations behind the long-distance commitment to bring about development projects in the country of origin. Our fieldwork as well as our methodological approach in a multi-sited terrain helped us better grasp some of the mechanisms of bounded solidarity and of shared resources.Starting from an observed fact, an associative dynamic, which grew significantly in the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti in January 2010, our study highlights three key elements: the relevance of the sense of belonging of migrants associations, the paramount importance of the relationship between the origin State and the its citizens abroad, and the growing, diverse and complex evolution
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"Motherhood and Teaching in Jamaica: A Modified Life History Approach." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2015-08-2195.
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This study uses a modified life history approach to gain deeper insights into the lived experiences of three teachers who became mothers while serving in Jamaica. This study was conceptualized as a result of my experiences as a teacher who became a mother. I was desirous of investigating if other teachers who became mothers in Jamaica experienced similar personal and professional transformation as a result of motherhood. The use of a life history approach necessitates an exploration of the wider historical, familial, socio-political, cultural, and economic factors influencing the lived experiences of participants and the meanings they give to their experiences.
Dominant themes highlighted in the data include: the ideology that the overarching goal of education in Jamaica is for social mobility and an escape mechanism from poverty. Becoming a mother has resulted in participants taking greater levels of interest in the holistic development of students, rather than only emphasizing their academic development as they did prior to becoming mothers. Participants also developed more empathy for parents and closer collegial relationships when they became mothers. Participants’ relationships with administration were two-fold; on one hand they lobbied for improvements to their working conditions which may have a positive impact on their family life; while on the other hand, they also cared more about self-preservation in order to adequately meet the needs of their families. Motherhood also provided opportunities for participants to become more involved in various social groups in their communities. Various socio-political and economic challenges in Jamaica resulted in participants migrating to a Prairie city with their families. However, living in a multi-cultural society where they are racial minorities has presented its own challenges. Participants are negotiating the notion of home and being outsiders.
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Chen, Hsin-Chi, and 陳信智. "Writing Self, Narrating History: TextualPolitics in Jamaica Kincaid''s Novels." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/79005638163247166124.
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In this thesis, I attempt to examine Jamaica Kincaid’s re-negotiation with the politics of power relations in her novels. Kncaid’s novels, through the strategic deployment of autobiographical writing, redress the power dimension in the notions of self and history. The fact that Kincaid frames the field of power relations within the thematic recurrence of mother-daughter relations structures her novels in a way that conflates her personal stories with her group history. Moreover, such a structure emphatically registers the self-positioning act of Kincaid’s writing as a strategy for survival. The first chapter explores how Kincaid mobilizes her self-writing as an act of political resistance. On the one hand, Kincaid opposes her writing which is delivered in the name of herself or her culture to the poststructuralist pronouncements of the general demise of a writing subject. On the other hand, Kincaid, through implicating the poststructuralist fracture of self in the protocol of decolonization, attempts to strategically inhabit in what Homi Bhabha calls the in-between space to define herself. The second chapter deals with the inscription of historical forces on the body. Foucault’s genealogical unpacking of history in the body here helps to investigate how Kincaid’s fictional alter egos bear and, more importantly, act out against the inscription of power. The third chapter focuses on the politics of Kincaid’s autobiographical writing. At first, I unpack the relations between history and the politics of women’s writing in the West Indies, and borrow the poststructuralist interrogation of Western historical knowledge to contradict the West’s epistemological claims to West Indian history. And then I turn to the analysis of Kincaid’s autobiographical writing, which, through its thematic deployment of mother-daughter relations, turns on the political empowerment in her strategic integration of her personal and collective history.
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Duke, Hanoch Marma. "A comparative study of the Christian mission in Jamaica and Karnataka." Thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16721.
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Kenny, Gale L. "Contentious liberties: Gendered power and religious freedom in the nineteenth-century American mission to Jamaica." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/22284.
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In 1839, the year after slavery's end in the British West Indies, a group of young abolitionist graduates of Ohio's Oberlin College established a Protestant mission in Jamaica. Joining the already numerous British missionaries on the island, these mostly Congregationalist white American men and women created mission churches and schools to aid and convert black Jamaicans as well as to show skeptical whites in the United States a successful model of an emancipated society. The fledgling American Missionary Association adopted their project in 1847, and it continued until the end of the American Civil War. The mission failed to be the shining example of an interracial society its founders had intended because in spite of their devotion to their doctrine of Christian liberty, the missionary men and women positioned themselves as perpetual parents over "childlike" Jamaican converts.
The dissertation focuses on the conflicts over the meaning of liberty as different factions in the mission defined it. It does this in two parts: first by showing how abolitionist men committed to liberty instituted mission churches and households based in strictly controlled hierarchies, and second, by examining the challenges brought to those hierarchies by black Jamaicans, white women, and others. The Americans went to Jamaica with an idea of Christian liberty that conflated religious conversion and emancipation. When the missionary men found that few black Jamaicans lived up this initial expectation of a "born again" society, they managed this "licentiousness" by imposing strict church discipline and by becoming increasingly attached to their power as infallible "fathers" overseeing their mission households.
Over the course of the mission's almost thirty-year history, disgruntled members of the mission---both black and white---challenged this hierarchy in direct and indirect ways, and most interestingly, the ministers could, at times, be convinced that they were wrong, especially when a white man had raised the complaint. Black Jamaican men and women and the mission's white women had less success. Occurring as they did in the missionary setting, these periodic disputes over the mission's power structure reflected and distorted American discussions about gender and race, religion, and Christian reform.
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Williams, Kareen. "The Evolution of Poltical Violence in Jamaica 1940-1980." Thesis, 2011. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8WS91D7.
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By the 1960s violence became institutionalized in modern Jamaican politics. This endemic violence fostered an unstable political environment that developed out of a symbiotic relationship between Jamaican labor organizations and political violence. Consequently, the political process was destabilized by the corrosive influence of partisan politics, whereby party loyalists dependent on political patronage were encouraged by the parties to defend local constituencies and participate in political conflict. Within this system the Jamaican general election process became ominous and violent, exemplifying how limited political patronage was dispersed among loyal party supporters. This dissertation examines the role of the political parties and how they mobilized grassroot supporters through inspirational speeches, partisan ideology, complex political patronage networks, and historic party platform issues from 1940 through 1980. The dissertation argues that the development of Jamaican trade unionism and its corresponding leadership created the political framework out of which Jamaica's two major political parties, the Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) and People's National Party (PNP) emerged. Within the evolution of their support base Jamaican politicians such as Alexander Bustamante utilized their influence over local constituencies to create a garrison form of mobilization that relied heavily upon violence. By investigating the social and political connection between local politicians and violence, this dissertation examines how events such as the Henry Rebellion in 1960, the 1978 Green Bay Massacre, and the public murder of the PNP candidate Roy McGann in 1980 demonstrate the failure of traditional Jamaican political patronage to control extremist violence among grassroot supporters, giving rise to a general public dissatisfaction with the established Jamaican leadership. This transformation of the political system resulted in the institutionalization of political violence by the late 1960s, and a pattern of general elections destabilized by vicious conflicts between JLP and PNP gangs. This political violence was reflected in the rise of gang dons such as Jim Brown and Wayne "Sandokhan" Smith who became independent of the patronage system through their exploitation of the drug trade. Consequently, modern Jamaican politics in the twenty-first century is fractured and local political leaders have lost control of the gangs.
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Harris, Laila Zahra. "Roots of History, Seeds of Change: Women Organic Farmers & Environmental Health in Jamaica." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10214/3963.
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This research seeks to address the gap in the literature on women, health, and environments by exploring the factors that motivate Jamaican women farmers to practice organic agriculture and how these might relate to their understandings of environment and health. The experiences and decisions of women farmers are also positioned within wider historical contexts of colonialism and agricultural change. Integrating a variety of theoretical frameworks, including public issues anthropology, ethnoecology, rural sociology, and feminist political ecology, my own scholarly analysis is merged with the perspectives of the women farmers interviewed in this qualitative study. This research found that women organic farmers in Jamaica were motivated by various factors related to environment and health and impacted by the island’s legacy of slavery and industrialization. The findings of this thesis can be used to encourage the practice of organic agriculture and to improve human health and environmental wellbeing in Jamaica and beyond.<br>Richard and Sophia Hungerford Travel Scholarship, Yeandle Family Graduate Scholarship, Richard and Sophia Hungerford Graduate Scholarship, Registrar’s Research Grant for Graduate Students, Registrar’s Research Travel Grant
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Isaacs, Calvin E. "The influence of single-mother migration on social and emotional adjustment of Jamaican adolescents." 2012. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1698513.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between single-mother migration and social and emotional adjustment in Jamaican adolescents, and to ascertain what factors influenced adolescent adjustment. The participants were 187 Jamaican adolescents ages 13 to 17 years, from five high schools and two junior high schools from a rural parish. There were 64 males and 123 females. The participants were divided into two groups – migrant and non-migrant. There were 100 participants in the migrant group and 87 in the non-migrant.
Multivariate analyses of variance (MANOVA) and regression analyses revealed that while there were no significant differences between the groups in social adjustment, the migrant group reported higher self-esteem and lower depression than the non-migrant group, and adolescent adjustment was predicted by family support and single-mother absence.
Implications for future research suggest the utilization of a mixed method approach to examine adolescent adjustment and point to the need for further research to reinforce and expand the findings of this study.<br>Department of Educational Psychology
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Ono-George, Meleisa. "The planter's fictions: identity, intimacy, and the negotiations of power in Colonial Jamaica." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3035.
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By the latter quarter of the eighteenth century, as the movement against the slave trade increased in Britain, Creoles, those of British ancestry born in the West Indies, were increasingly criticized for their involvement in slavery. Simon Taylor, a Jamaican-born planter of Scottish ancestry who lived most of his life in the colony, attempted to negotiate competing and often contradictory sensibilities and subject positions as both British and Creole.
One of the central challenges to Taylor’s negotiation of identity was his long-term relationship with Grace Donne, a free mixed-race woman of colour. An examination of their relationship highlights the ways binary discourses and exclusionary practices devised to create and reinforce rigid racial boundaries were regularly crossed and blurred, even by an individual like Simon Taylor, a person well placed to benefit from the policing and maintenance of those boundaries.