"Brand Jamaica is an empirical look at the postindependence national image and branding project of Jamaica within the context of nation-branding practices at large. Although a tiny Caribbean island inhabited by only 2.8 million people, Jamaica commands a remarkably large presenc…
"Brand Jamaica is an empirical look at the postindependence national image and branding project of Jamaica within the context of nation-branding practices at large. Although a tiny Caribbean island inhabited by only 2.8 million people, Jamaica commands a remarkably large presenc…
"Brand Jamaica is an empirical look at the postindependence national image and branding project of Jamaica within the context of nation-branding practices at large. Although a tiny Caribbean island inhabited by only 2.8 million people, Jamaica commands a remarkably large presenc…
Black music journalist Lloyd Bradley describes reggae music's origins and its development in Jamaica, from ska to rock-steady to dub and then to reggae itself, a local music which conquered the world.
Black music journalist Lloyd Bradley describes reggae music's origins and its development in Jamaica, from ska to rock-steady to dub and then to reggae itself, a local music which conquered the world.
Jamaica -- Colonial landscapes, colonial subjects -- The two Jamaicas -- Thinking the Caribbean: Creolizing thinking -- Race and its disavowal -- Leaving Jamaica -- Conscripts of modernity -- Journey to an illusion -- Encountering Oxford: the makings of a diasporic self -- Carib…
by Hall, Stuart
fromStuart Hall : selected writings
Growing up in a middle-class family in 1930s Kingston, Jamaica, still then a British colony, the young Stuart Hall found himself uncomfortable in his own home. He lived among Kingston's stiflingly respectable brown middle class, who, in their habits and ambitions, measured thems…
by Hall, Stuart
fromStuart Hall : selected writings
With great insight, compassion, and wit Stuart Hall (1932-2014) tells how his experiences-from growing up in colonial Jamaica and attending Oxford to participating in the thorny politics of 1950s and 1960s Britain-shaped his intellectual and political work to become one of his a…
"This is the first biography of the extraordinary, but ordinary life of, Patrick Nelson. His experiences touched on some of the most important and intriguing historical themes of the twentieth century. He was a black migrant to interwar Britain; an aristocrat's valet in rural Wa…
