...Anthony C. Winkler The author's thesis is that the patois term “Ole negar” which Jamaicans use to vilify and categorize the uneducated among them is more than a simple pejorative meant to stigmatize a whole class of people. From the various contexts in which the phrase ole negar is used can...

...” in the community: Dan, Willie, Perce, Mother Hen, and White Hen are, respectively, Reverend Simpson, the Baptist minister; the necromancer Ole African; Mass Cyrus, the myalman; Miss Gatha, the leader of a Kumina tabernacle; and Maydene Brassington, 21. Colette Maximin, “Distinction...

... Robinson-Walcott 118 What Do Jamaicans Mean by Ole Negar? Anthony C. Winkler 29 Visual Memory 128 The Photograph as a Receptacle of Memory July 2009...

... dread in us until the fi rst Sunday after Paul chewed up Gran’s dentures. You see, we had actually become used to the idea of seeing good ol’ Gran with her mash mouth when it suddenly struck us that she was still going to church with us even if she looked like she’d survived...

... want to think about: “If I should bring it up, she says it is an old story (‘e’ a’ ole time ‘tory; you lub ole-time ‘tory, me a warn you and for my mother an old story is a bad story, a story with an ending she does not like.”25 Kincaid’s memory and method of sharing stories is objectionable...

... * ought as Critical Social * eory, Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998), 44–76. 3 7 . C ol l i n s ,Fighting Words, 66–67; see also Angela Davis, Women, Culture and Politics (New York: Random House...

... “Boots”—historian James Carnegie—about a diary I had kept during the Black Power “revolution” of 1970, he wrote again: Boots tell me ’bout de Diary. Think it great great great. I int see it yet, you got to settle down now, ole man, and give we a book. No fuckin’ collection of articles. You got to write...

... in the Atlantic World (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004); and Benjamin Schmidt, “‘Imperfect Chaos’: Tropical Medicine and Exotic Natural History, c. 1700,” in Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham, eds., Medicine and Religion in Enlightenment Europe (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2007), 145–72. 7...

... in the apostrophe, which would only cause it to look choke up. So Guts boat get baptize, with some fellas on the beach drinking rum and beer from Harry club, ‘ole talking and cussing politicians until it get dark and the bottles empty. 1 at was before the Syrians come and say the estate that stretching...

... Trelawney Wentworth, The West India Sketch Book , 2nd ed., 2 vols. (London: Whittaker, 1835), 1:242 (italics in original). “Fine Time o’ Day” can also be read as a satirical portrayal of the master that carried masked criticism and ridicule. See William D. Pierson, “Puttin’ Down Ole Massa: African Satire...

... have it like some ole cross to bear. You are just obsessed with race. You just want to be black. Th at’s all. (“Disputed Truths,” Last Dance, p. 67) Th e result is alienation both from her family (“Yuh can’t even go back to your risto yard...

... and the Dominican Republic. In both situations the educational campaigns were needed; for a long time, information had been transmitted by way of “ole talk,” influencing to a high degree the “educational diet” of the masses. 48 The educational campaigns of 1946–56 led by Da Costa Gomez were no different, though...

.... Maurice Bishop dead, Bernard Coard in prison, newspaper people that the revolution did imprison outside, all thing that turn ole mass after a time now released and starting, uncertain, to try to find a way again. Still, and then later, and more. Some come, some go. Politicians join hands...

...? Because you used to visit the ghetto on holiday and I used to live there. Because your father is a painter and my ole man was a thief. Because your mother was a pilot and mine is a maid” (p. 55). A dead-on critique, but Ian’s shortcom- ings are weightier than his class analysis. After years...

... of culture and cultural commodities. Annual celebrations of carnival in New York, Miami, Washington D.C., Toronto, and London are the best examples of this cross-cultural trade. Caribbean-style carnival (ole mas, steel-pan, calypso) exists as a counterculture within the multicultural melting pot...

...: “Neither Europeans, nor Africans, nor Asians, we proclaim ourselves Cre- oles,” the tract begins, establishing its commitment to what Chris Bongie calls a “foundation- alist politics of identity” that substitutes creoleness for earlier filiated forms of belonging like Negritude.28 The kind of cultural...

... home surveillance video recordings. 25 From inside this terrible cinema of murder that mek big harden ole time police officers bawl , her multicolored nylon dress and heeled brown shoes reach into time and intertwine themselves in the political and literary history of killing in this patriarchal...

... with the piece o’ ol’ bicycle, I going walk pass him, straight as him come in here this evening— and I not looking back. For I can’t take it any more. So just wait until him come here this evening, make six o’clock come and catch him outside there this evening and see. Let one minute past six catch him out...

... insults. She insults his mouth (“mash,” “like ripe bread-fruit his nose (“jam samplatta nose his feet (he has “big an’ ugly ole tu’n-foot” with “chigger” looking “like herrin’ roe All in all he 6 1 . Harlem Shadows (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922), hereafter...

.... In fact, Brodber’s Myal makes a wonderfully nuanced analysis of the interplay and transformative mobilization of “cultural survivals” (not least in the figure of Ole African) in the context of the creolization of cultural forms.19 Thus Brodber’s reclamation of historical...