Tag: Jamaica

  • Black & White: Search for roots uncovers forgotten family secret National Post Toronto, Canada 2012-02-17 Sarah Boesveld, General Assignment Writer About 20 years ago, David Dossett watched his grandfather politely shut down a woman who called to say she was a relative and that their family had come to Canada from Jamaica and that they…

  • Hitting the Right Rhythm to Tell Marley’s Story The New York Times 2012-04-06 John Anderson Of all the friends, lovers, relatives and Rastas that the director Kevin Macdonald wrangled into his new documentary, “Marley,” one of his favorite finds was Dudley Sibley, a onetime recording artist and the janitor at the Jamaican recording studio where…

  • Bob Marley: the regret that haunted his life The Guardian 2012-04-07 Tim Adams, Staff Writer Director Kevin Macdonald explains how he pieced together his new film about reggae legend Bob Marley, from troubled early years in Jamaica to worldwide adulation – even after death In 2005, the director Kevin Macdonald was working in Uganda on…

  • Mixed Race Jamaicans in England A Parcel of Ribbons: Eighteenth century Jamaica viewed throught family stories and documents 2012-01-28 Ann Powers The status of  mixed race Jamaicans in eighteenth century Jamaica was always going to be less than than of white colonists, but it was possible for them to become established and successful in England.…

  • This first full-length biography of the first published Asian North American fiction writer portrays both the woman and her times.

  • The decline of Jamaica’s interracial households and the fall of the planter class, 1733–1823 Atlantic Studies Volume 9, Issue 1, (January, 2012)  (Special Issue: Rethinking the Fall of the Planter Class) pages 107-123 DOI: 10.1080/14788810.2012.637002 Daniel Livesay, Assistant Professor of History Drury University, Springfield, Missouri The theory of planter decline traditionally implied that social and…

  • Mixed-race People and Emancipation-Era Jamaica Emancipation: The Caribbean Experience Bulding Communities University of Miami Fall 2001 Kiara Bell This website was created by the students of History 300: Caribbean History: Emancipation and Freedom, in Fall 2001 at the University of Miami, with the assistance of the staff of Richter Library’s Archives and Special Collections. Following…

  • The Planter’s Fictions: Identity, Intimacy, and the Negotiations of Power in Colonial Jamaica University of Victoria, Canada 2010 127 pages Meleisa Ono-George A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Masters of Art In the Department of History By the latter quarter of the eighteenth century, as the movement against…

  • Hierarchies of whiteness in the geographies of empire: Thomas Thistlewood and the Barrets of Jamaica New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids Volume 80, Numbers 1&2 (2006) pages 5-43 DOI: 10.1163/13822373-90002486 Cecilla A. Green, Associate Professor, Sociology Maxwell School of Syracuse University Shows how a racial solidarity between whites in colonial Jamaica during slavery…

  • Reggae superstar Bob Marley suffered due to his mixed-race background