The African-Caribbean worldview and the making of a Caribbean society
By: edited by Horace Levy
Contributors: Chevannes, Barry
Publisher: University of West Indies Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Kingston, Jamaica
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9789766402105
Subjects: Civilization; Ethnicity; African influences; Identity (Psychology)
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.

Mode of access: Internet.
Table of contents: title: Jamaica, the Caribbean, Africa : some oppositions and their politics  -- Diane Austin-Broos; title: Myal, revival and Rastafari in the making of Western Jamaica : dialogues with Chevannes  -- Jean Besson; title: Colonial injustice : the Crown v. the Bedwardites, 27 April 1921  -- Veront M. Satchell; title: Education, race and respectability in Jamaica, circa the 1938 labour rebellion  -- Khitanya Petgrave; title: No space for race? : the bleaching of the nation in postcolonial Jamaica  -- Annie Paul; title: Museography and places of remembrance of slavery in Martinique, or the gaps in a memory difficult to express -- Christine Chivallon.; title: "Reflection" from the margin : Jah Cure and Rastsfari celebrity in contemporary Jamaica  -- Jahlani Niaah and Sonjah Stanley Niaah; title: If yuh iron good you is king : pan in 3-D  -- Kim Johnson; title: Don Drummond : just how good was he?  -- Herbie Miller; title: "Blak up! Blak up!" : liturgical compositions of Barry Chevannes  -- Anna Kasafi Perkins; title: Creoles as linguistic markers of national identity : examples from Jamaica and Guyana  -- Béatrice Boufoy-Bastick; title: Understanding sexual behaviour in Jamaica  -- J. Peter Figueroa; title: Third crisis : Jamaica in the Neoliberal era  -- Don Robotham; title: Autobiographical note -- Barry Chevannes.