The African-Caribbean worldview and the making of Caribbean society / edited by Horace Levy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levy, Horace, editor.

Chevannes, Barry, honouree.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chevannes, Barry.

Ethnicity--Caribbean Area.

Ethnicity.

Identity (Psychology)--Caribbean Area.

Identity (Psychology).

Caribbean Area--Civilization--African influences.

Caribbean Area.

Jamaica--Civilization--African influences.

Jamaica.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jamaica : University of West Indies Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book brings together contributions from a broad spectrum of authors on the most challenging issue for the Caribbean: resisting the dominating efforts of European colonizers and their descendants and understanding the long-standing struggle of Caribbean people to fashion a culture and society that would give full space to the African heritage of the majority while accommodating their new and evolving circumstances. The book presents contemporary readings of Caribbean religion, education, language, music, race, sexual behaviour in a time of the AIDS pandemic, and the economy. It grew out of a conference held in 2006 in honour of the scholarship of internationally acclaimed Alston Barrington Chevannes, professor of social anthropology at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. This collection is unique, therefore, in both the breadth of its focus and range of topics as well as the specific issues considered, most essays being useful case studies in particular fields. The geographical span includes Jamaica, Martinique, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, indeed the Caribbean as a whole. There is perhaps no other publication with such an aim, range and relevance. The theme of a Caribbean worldview makes this book a pioneering contribution to Caribbean studies. The Collection also contains an autobiographical essay by Barry Chevannes. Book jacket.

Contents:

Jamaica, the Caribbean, Africa: some oppositions and their politics / Diane Austin-Broos

Myal, revival and Rastafari in the making of Western Jamaica: dialogues with Chevannes / Jean Besson

Colonial injustice: the Crown v. the Bedwardites, 27 April 1921 / Veront M. Satchell

Education, race and respectability in Jamaica, circa the 1938 labour rebellion / Khitanya Petgrave

No space for race? the bleaching of the nation in postcolonial Jamaica / Annie Paul

Museography and places of remembrance of slavery in Martinique, or the gaps in a memory difficult to express / Christine Chivallon

"Reflection" from the margin: Jah Cure and Rastafari celebrity in contemporary Jamaica / Jahlani Niaah and Sonjah Stanley Niaah

If yuh iron good you is king: pan in 3-D / Kim Johnson

Don Drummond: just how good was he? / Herbie Miller

"Blak up! Blak up!": liturgical compositions of Barry Chevannes / Anna Kasafi Perkins

Creoles as linguistic markers of national identity: examples from Jamaica and Guyana / Beatrice Boufoy-Bastick

Understanding sexual behaviour in Jamaica / J. Peter Figueroa

The third crisis: Jamaica in the Neoliberal era / Don Robotham

An autobiographical note / Barry Chevannes.

Notes:

Papers presented at a conference to celebrate the work of Professor Barry Chevannes held at the University of West Indies, Mona campus, Jamaica, January 19-21, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4416-2029-X

OCLC:

940437489