myth of independence
Subtitle: middle class politics and non mobilization in Jamaica
By: Louis Lindsay.
Contributors: University of the West Indies (Mona, Jamaica). Institute of Social and Economic Research
Series: Working paper / Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies -- no. 6; Working paper (University of the West Indies (Mona, Jamaica). Institute of Social and Economic Research) -- no. 6.
Publisher: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Mona, Jamaica
Language: eng
Number of pages: 73
Subjects: Political participation -- Jamaica.; Jamaica -- Politics and government.
Description: Table of Contents
Acknowledgements	5
List of Acronyms	6
List of Contributors	7
Reflections on the Myth of Independence Louis Lindsay	8
Caribbean Fanonism Revisited: A Note	
Norman Girvan	28
Globalization and Mobilization: The Search for Independence	
William Harris	40
A Brief Commentary on Louis Lindsay’s Myth of Independence	
Richard Hart	50
A Lost Opportunity? A Commentary on the Jamaican Experience of Independence	
Taitu Heron	55
Race, Identity and the Challenges of National Development: A Comment on Louis Lindsay’s Myth Essays	
Rupert Lewis	73
Retrospective on Louis Lindsay’s Myth of Independence: Middle Class Politics and Non-mobilization in Jamaica	
Vaughn Lewis	80

The Way We Were? Comments on Louis Lindsay’s Myth of Independence	
Herman McKenzie	84
On Debunking Political Myths	
Michael Witter	87
The Myth of Independence: Middle Class Politics and Non-Mobilization in Jamaica	
Louis Lindsay	90
I: The Devaluation of the Concept of Independence	90
II: Fanon and the Notion of Pseudo-Independence	93
III: Middle Class Anglophilism and Colonial Status Quo Politics	99
IV: The Absence of National Self-Confidence and the Failure of the Left	108
V.  The Materialist Fallacy and the New Mother Country Complex	119
VI: Conceptualising the Quest for Self Government - Problems of Language and Problems of Thought	123
Conclusion	131
Notes: Bibliography: p. 66-73.
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