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Public Secrets - Race and Colour in Colonial and Independent Jamaica (Hardcover)
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Public Secrets - Race and Colour in Colonial and Independent Jamaica (Hardcover)
Series: Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines, 22
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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 1980s. 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 the
labour market, education, the family and legal system, among other
areas, 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 race and
colour have lost little of their power since independence and
offers some suggestions to overcome the silence on race to
facilitate equality of opportunity for all.
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