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“d a dunkley”

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  • Readings in Caribbean History and Culture

    Breaking Ground

    by Dalea Bean, Eldon V. Birthwright, Trevor Burnard, D A. Dunkley, Dennis Gill, Claudia Hucke, Coreen J. Leacock, Russell Lord, Michael Niblett, Raymond Ramcharitar, Shivani Sivagurunathan, Benita P. Thompson, S Joel Warrican, D.A. Dunkley ...
    This collection of eleven essays is designed to highlight some important new voices who have been doing research on the general subject areas of the history and culture of the Caribbean. The essays in this volume also address a number of themes which are critical to developing an understanding of current scholarly work on the two broad subject areas. Among the themes examined are colonialism, ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Agency of the Enslaved

    Jamaica and the Culture of Freedom in the Atlantic World

    by D.A. Dunkley ...
    In Agency of the Enslaved: Jamaica and the Culture of Freedom in the Atlantic World, D.A. Dunkley challenges the notion that enslavement fostered the culture of freedom in the former colonies of Western Europe in the Americas. Dunkley argues the point that the preconception that out of slavery came freedom has discouraged scholars from fully exploring the importance of the agency displayed by ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Leonard Percival Howell and the Genesis of Rastafari

    Edited by Clinton A. Hutton, Michael A. Barnett, D. A. Dunkley and Jahlani A.H. Niaah ...
    This volume is the product of interest in both Howell and the genesis of the Rastafari movement. The volume was conceived and compiled by Rastafari scholars that hail from a range of disciplines at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, Jamaica, thus assuring a cross-disciplinary feel for this important contribution to Rastafari scholarship. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Leonard Percival Howell & the Genesis of Rastafari

    Edited by Clinton A. Hutton, Michael A. Barnett, D.A Dunkley, Jahlani A.H Niaah ...
    This volume is the product of interest in both Howell and the genesis of the Rastafari movement. The volume was conceived and compiled by Rastafari scholars that hail from a range of disciplines at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, thus assuring a cross-disciplinary feel for this important contribution to Rastafari scholarship. ... Read more

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  • Black Resistance in the Americas

    Edited by D.A. Dunkley, Stephanie Shonekan ...
    All across the US in the last few years, there has been a resurgence of Black protest against structural racism and other forms of racial injustice. Black Resistance in the Americas draws attention to this renewed energy and how this theme of resistance intersects with other communities of Black people around the world. This edited collection examines in depth stories of resistance against slavery ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • The Dead Yard

    A Story of Modern Jamaica

    by Ian Thomson ...
    Named the Dolman Travel Book of the Year, The Dead Yard paints an unforgettable portrait of modern Jamaica. Since independence, Jamaica has gradually become associated with twin images--a resort-style travel Eden for foreigners and a new kind of hell for Jamaicans, a society where gangs control the areas where most Jamaicans live and drug lords like Christopher Coke rule elites and the poor alike ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Rastafari: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ennis B. Edmonds ...
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    From its obscure beginnings in Jamaica in the early 1930s, Rastafari has grown into an international socio-religious movement. It is estimated that 700,000 to 1 million people worldwide have embraced Rastafari, and adherents of the movement can be found in most of the major population centres and many outposts of the world. Rastafari: A Very Short Introduction provides an account of this ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Becoming Rasta

    Origins of Rastafari Identity in Jamaica

    by Charles Price ...
    An exploration into why and how Jamaicans become Rastafari in spite of increasing incrimination of the religionSo much has been written about the Rastafari, yet we know so little about why and how people join the Rastafari movement. Although popular understandings evoke images of dreadlocks, reggae, and marijuana, Rastafarians were persecuted in their country, becoming a people seeking social ... Read more

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  • Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire

    Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World

    by Trevor Burnard ...
    Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain’s largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous social order. Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica’s vibrant but harsh African and European cultures with a comprehensive examination of the extraordinary diary of plantation owner Thomas Thistlewood.Thistlewood’s diary, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Rastafarians

    Twentieth Anniversary Edition

    by Leonard Barrett, Leonard E. Barrett ...
    The classic work on the history and beliefs of the Rastafarians, whose roots of protest go back to the seventeenth-century maroon societies of escaped slaves in Jamaica. Based on an extensive study of the Rastafarians, their history, their ideology, and their influence in Jamaica, The Rastafarians is an important contribution to the sociology of religion and to our knowledge of the variety of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Bob Marley

    by William English ...
    This eBook will attempt to tell the story of Jamaicas greatest son, in a manner which will give the reader a broad spectrum in a small space. A lot of this book will not be about Marley himself, but about the places, times and people that shaped him. It will explore how his upbringing, his faith and the historical context into which he was born had and such an immense impact. The story of the ... Read more

    $3.50 USD

  • Bob Marley: Lyrical Genius

    by Kwame Dawes ...
    The quintessential folk poet of the Third World, Bob Marley influenced generations of musicians and writers. He was a performer who held true to his religious and cultural heritage, who rallied against injustice, and who became an internationally revered musical icon.Renowned poet and scholar Kwame Dawes analyses in detail his verses and lyrics, matching them against the social and political ... Read more

    $12.99 USD