Dr. Matthew Chin Dr. Matthew Chin

Fractal Repair: Queer Histories of Modern Jamaica

Chang identified himself as “General Secretary, Gay Freedom Movement, P.O. Box 343, Stony Hill,” thereby introducing the first self-proclaimed gay activist organization in the anglophone Caribbean to the Gleaner’s reading public and providing a way to communicate with the organization. Other Jamaicans would come to learn of GFM and reach out to Chang upon reading the letters he wrote not only to the Daily Gleaner but also the Jamaica Daily News and the Jamaica Star.

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Dr. Holger Henke Dr. Holger Henke

Foreign Policy and Dependency: The Case of Jamaica, 1972-89

In early November 1975 the Cuban Government had decided to send regular combat troops to Angola in order to help the beleaguered liberation movement MPLA to resist the two rival movements fighting alongside the South African white supremacists' army and the CIA. Towards the end of December the Jamaican Government found itself pressed to take a position.

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Leo Zeilig Leo Zeilig

Revolutionary for Our Time: The Walter Rodney Story

Walter’s passion was history. Stimulated by Moore’s encouragement and teaching, he became the president of the history society at the school, as well as vice president of the debating society and editor of the school magazine, The Lictor. In 1960, at the age of seventeen, Rodney left Guyana for the first time to start a degree at the University of the West Indies (UWI).

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Dr. Cezley Sampson Dr. Cezley Sampson

From State to Markets : Journey of the Jamaican Economy

The book provides a sweeping history of the country’s economic experience of what can be described as the ‘socialist economic adventure’ of the 1970s and its replacement by the takeover of Jamaica’s economic policymaking into a forcible clientelist relationship with the International Financial Institutions of the 1980s and beyond.

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Dr. Charles Price Dr. Charles Price

Rastafari: The Evolution of a People and Their Identity

Misunderstood, misappropriated, belittled: though the Rastafari feature frequently in media and culture, they have most often been misrepresented, their political and religious significance minimized. But they have not been vanquished.

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