The Jamaican Family
Author : Elsa Leo-Rhynie
Publisher : Grace Kennedy Foundation
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 33,59 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :
Author : Elsa Leo-Rhynie
Publisher : Grace Kennedy Foundation
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 33,59 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :
Author : Jennifer O'Sullivan-Sirjue
Publisher : Arawak Publications
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 10,24 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Jamaica
ISBN : 9789768189486
Author : Daniel Archer Melville
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,9 MB
Release : 2020-12-15
Category :
ISBN : 9789768286246
Lost Stitches is a remarkable book that's part family memoir - full of family intrigue and heartbreak - part American history, part romance, and part love-letter to Jamaica. Told in a heartfelt yet humble, candid and relatable way, Danny recounts the
Author : Fernando Henriques
Publisher : London : Macgibbon & Kee
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,60 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Fara Brown
Publisher :
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 38,77 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Domestic relations
ISBN : 9789768167910
Author : Leonard Archie Wilson
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 45,17 MB
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1644265214
A Jamaican Family’s Saga 2 By: Leonard Archie Wilson A Jamaican Family’s Saga 2 is a continuation and climax of A Jamaican Family’s Saga, the original work by Leonard Archie Wilson, a fictionalized biography of the life of Althea Ulrica Richardson, his actual mother. The matriarch is portrayed by Ulrica Richards, from her birth to her death. The story resurrects a true incident in the life of Althea. In the 1940s in Jamaica, her youngest brother, Real, was either murdered or accidentally devoured by sharks off the coast of the island. In the fictionalized account, one of her sons and his wife pull off a Macmillan and Wife style investigation to almost solve this seventy-two-year-old mystery.
Author : Daniel Livesay
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 31,67 MB
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1469634449
By tracing the largely forgotten eighteenth-century migration of elite mixed-race individuals from Jamaica to Great Britain, Children of Uncertain Fortune reinterprets the evolution of British racial ideologies as a matter of negotiating family membership. Using wills, legal petitions, family correspondences, and inheritance lawsuits, Daniel Livesay is the first scholar to follow the hundreds of children born to white planters and Caribbean women of color who crossed the ocean for educational opportunities, professional apprenticeships, marriage prospects, or refuge from colonial prejudices. The presence of these elite children of color in Britain pushed popular opinion in the British Atlantic world toward narrower conceptions of race and kinship. Members of Parliament, colonial assemblymen, merchant kings, and cultural arbiters--the very people who decided Britain's colonial policies, debated abolition, passed marital laws, and arbitrated inheritance disputes--rubbed shoulders with these mixed-race Caribbean migrants in parlors and sitting rooms. Upper-class Britons also resented colonial transplants and coveted their inheritances; family intimacy gave way to racial exclusion. By the early nineteenth century, relatives had become strangers.
Author : Maisy Card
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 26,63 MB
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1982117443
PEN/Hemingway Award For Debut Novel Finalist Shortlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A “rich, ambitious debut novel” (The New York Times Book Review) that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures over generations, in the tradition of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. Stanford Solomon’s shocking, thirty-year-old secret is about to change the lives of everyone around him. Stanford has done something no one could ever imagine. He is a man who faked his own death and stole the identity of his best friend. Stanford Solomon is actually Abel Paisley. And now, nearing the end of his life, Stanford is about to meet his firstborn daughter, Irene Paisley, a home health aide who has unwittingly shown up for her first day of work to tend to the father she thought was dead. These Ghosts Are Family revolves around the consequences of Abel’s decision and tells the story of the Paisley family from colonial Jamaica to present-day Harlem. There is Vera, whose widowhood forced her into the role of a single mother. There are two daughters and a granddaughter who have never known they are related. And there are others, like the houseboy who loved Vera, whose lives might have taken different courses if not for Abel Paisley’s actions. This “rich and layered story” (Kirkus Reviews) explores the ways each character wrestles with their ghosts and struggles to forge independent identities outside of the family and their trauma. The result is a “beguiling…vividly drawn, and compelling” (BookPage, starred review) portrait of a family and individuals caught in the sweep of history, slavery, migration, and the more personal dramas of infidelity, lost love, and regret.
Author : Lisa Douglass
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,39 MB
Release : 1992-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Yet the kinship practices of the family elite do not merely serve to maintain their position or promote their interests, as some critics have suggested. The elite marry according to enduring cultural dispositions about the proper ordering of color, gender, and class relations, following their sense of what "feels right." In their view, they marry not out of self-interest, but "for love." The Power of Sentiment breaks new ground in ethnographic studies of kinship. Lisa Douglass examines the upper class, a group previously neglected in research on the Caribbean family despite its integral role in the kinship system. She provides fresh insights into what earlier studies termed the color/ class hierarchy by considering how gender both affects what these categories represent and is itself a distinct dimension of the social order. The author also makes a significant contribution to theories of ideology and practice.
Author : George Edward Cumper
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 13,51 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Families
ISBN :