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...Rochelle Rowe The “Ten Types-One People” multiracial beauty contest was launched in 1955 in Jamaica, then a British colony on the cusp of independence. Jamaican nationalists designed “Ten Types” as a central part of the “Jamaica 300” tercentenary celebrations, the colony's first foray...

... for his body. I flew to Jamaica to help Vinny’s wife, Winsome, prepare for his funeral and for the nine-night celebration that would precede it.5 We went up to the house (which, after Vinny’s murder, had been abandoned by family members who had scattered for safety) to pack up some of Vinny’s...

... urban, working-class spaces of labor, residence, and leisure. Finally, ska’s descendent musical forms weave together white and black youth through a variety of genres and practices linking Jamaica, Great Britain, and the United States. The Three Waves...

...? Each of the books reviewed here offers well-grounded and reasoned responses to that question. Drawing on evidence of policing and punishment in Jamaica, South Asia, Peru, the United States, and Germany, and spanning from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth century, they contribute...

... the ecological differentiation of single islands, as in the case of Puerto Rico or Jamaica; or as between islands of approximately the same size, but physiographically very different, as between Martinique and Guadeloupe, or Barbados and Dominica; or as between sectors of the mainland...

... of Britain and Jamaica, along with the Duke University – based art historian Richard Powell — was to elevate the African diaspora as a shared com- munity of art and visual production implicating three national locations: the United States, Britain, and Jamaica. A didactic sequence of themes...

..., went from Savannah to Kingston, Jamaica, in 1782 and formed its first Baptist church two years later. "Preaching took very good effect with the poorer sort, especially the slaves," he wrote. By the turn of the century Baptist congregations were segregated. In 1800 Gabriel Prosser led...

... Dipesh Chakrabarty, Rethinking Working-Class Histo y: Bengal, 2890- 2940. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. $39.50. Thomas C. Holt, The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 2832-2938. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. $65.00 (cloth...

... Claudius McKay Laura A. Harris Kotti Sree Ramesh and Kandula Nirupa Rani, Claude McKay: The Literary Identity from Jamaica to Harlem and Beyond. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006. Josh Gosciak, The Shadowed Country: Claude McKay and the Romance of the Victorians. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers...

..., then, that her next project more explicitly explores this question by focusing on folk culture and religion in the other America, specifically the Caribbean. Tell My Horse Hurston published Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica in 1938, just...

.... There are certain classes of natives who are proud of being African."14 Unrest was 370 RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW most prominent in the West Indies, particularly during 1937 and 1938 in Trinidad and Jamaica. Between 1935 and 1940, forty seven people were killed, over 400 injured, and more...

... islands. In Jamaica in 2004, where Aris- tide himself was in short exile, Sharon E. Clarke argues that the initial positive response of the Jamaican government to the hundreds displaced after the coup was a “grand gesture of goodwill” (137). There were pockets of popular discontent over...

... was in revolt against the trading regime imposed from the metropole. In this context, the French scored a series of naval victories against British possessions in the Antilles. Naval blockades and an embargo against the former thirteen colonies fell quite hard upon islands like Barbados and Jamaica.13...

..., a study of the people who were hanged, is forthcoming with Penguin. The collective Midnight Notes can be reached at P.O. Box 204, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130. Spencer Olin teaches modern American and California history at the University of California, Irvine, and is fhe author of California Politics...

... determined that Akan affiliation was crucial to certain developments in Antigua and Jamaica, respectively, while Michael Mullin has likewise emphasized the Akan element in revolts throughout the English colo- nies, particularly Jamaica. Some of the more fascinating work on ethnic- ity...

... of slavery and emancipation whose research on Jamaica has been enmeshed in debates around comparative slavery and emancipations. The other, after writing a book on American (that is, U.S.—involvement in this program has led all of us to be more aware of our use...

... with Catherine Hall’s essays on Jamaica. Maurice Goldring’s Pleasant the Scholar’s Life and Partha Chatterjee’s The Nation and Its Fragments both investigate the elaboration of anti-colonial nationalism by the middle class intelli- gentsias of Ireland and India. These nationalist intellectuals did...

... in Jamaica); Richmond and Staten Island Community College will become a four- year college on Staten Island (assuming the two current presidents don't outfox each other so totally that they destroy the compromise engineered by Staten Island leaders). The fate of Hostos now located in the South...

... of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica (2004) and the coeditor of the volume Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness (2006). She is also the coeditor of the journal Transforming...

..., Mona, Jamaica. He is the author of Red and Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1 9 3 4  – 1 9 5 7 (2009). Karen Sotiropoulos is associate professor of history at Cleveland State University and a member of the Radical History Review Editorial Collective. She is the author...