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Public Secrets: Race and Colour in Colonial and Independent Jamaica
Contributor(s): Altink, Henrice (Author)

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 ISBN: 1789620007     ISBN-13: 9781789620009
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
OUR PRICE: $157.50  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Colonialism & Post-colonialism
- History | Americas (north Central South West Indies)
- Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations
Dewey: 305.896
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" L (1.25 lbs) 280 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
Informed by Critical Race Theory and based on a wide range of sources, including official sources, memoirs, and anthropological studies, this book examines multiple forms of racial discrimination in Jamaica and how they were talked about and experienced, from the end of the First World War
until the demise of democratic socialism in the 1980. It also pays attention to practices devoid of racial content but which equally helped to sustain a society stratified by race and colour, such as voting qualifications. Case studies on, amongst others, the labour market, education, the family and
legal system demonstrate the extent to which race and colour shaped social relations in the island in the decades preceding and following independence and argue that racial discrimination was a public secret - everybody knew it took place but few dared to openly discuss or criticise it. The book
ends with an examination of race and colour in contemporary Jamaica to show that after independence race and colour have lost little of their power and offers some suggestions to overcome the silence on race to facilitate equality of opportunity for all.
 
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