I Want to Disturb my Neighbour: Lectures on Slavery, Emancipation and Postcolonial Jamaica
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Language
English
ISBN
978-976-637-720-5
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
SECTION I: Historiography and Knowledge Production in Jamaica and the Wider Caribbean
KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION IN THECARIBBEAN: Contemporary Writings, the Construction of ‘Africa(n)’ and the Task of Reconstruction
CULTURE, CREOLIZATION AND MARRONAGE IN THE CARIBBEAN: Engaging with the Writings of Rex Nettleford
‘SEX IN THE TROPICS’: Women, Gender and Sexuality in the Discourses of Asian Labour Migration to the British-Colonized Caribbean
The University of the West Indies and The Decolonization Project
SECTION II: Enslavement and Resistance
ROOTS OF ROUTES: Intra-Caribbean Trade Links Since the Fifteenth Century
‘Groundings’ with Tacky (Takyi) on History, Heritage and Activism
REVOLUTION AND POST REVOLUTION: Re-Imaging and Rethinking Haiti
‘PETTICOAT REBELLION?’: Women in Emancipation in Colonial Jamaica
‘BESIDE EVERY SUCCESSFUL MAN’: The Unsung Activists of the 1831–1832 Emancipation War in Jamaica
SECTION III: Emancipation and migration - Negotiating Free Society
APPRENTICESHIP AND INDENTURESHIP: Re/Placing Slavery in the British-Colonized Caribbean — Historiographical Trends
‘MY FEET IS [SIC] MY ONLY CARRIAGE’: Gender and Labour Mobility in the Post-Slavery Caribbean
THE POLITICS OF MIGRATION OFFICIAL POLICY TOWARDS INDIANS IN JAMAICA, 1845–1945
SECTION IV: Slavery’s Legacies in Postcolonial Jamaica
‘DEAR MRS SEACOLE’: ‘Groundings’ with Mary Seacole on Slavery, Gender and Citizenship
‘UP FROM SLAVERY’: The Legacy of Slavery and the Project of Emancipation in the Commonwealth Caribbean
THE RANKING GAME: Discourses of Belonging in Jamaican History
SECTION V: ‘I Want to Disturb my Neighbour’ - Activism in an Age of Individualism
THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION and August 1, 1838 Text and Context
‘I WANT TO DISTURB MY NEIGHBOUR’ AND 'THE MAN AT THE DOOR’ In an Age of Individualism
AFTER THE EXHIBITION IS GONE: Public Memory in an Age of Historical Amnesia
THE CASE FOR REPARATION: Historical Basis
CHALLENGING MASCULINE MYTHS: Gender, History Education and Development in Jamaica
FROM REDEMPTION SONG TO REMEMBRANCE WALLS: Establishing War Memorials for Anti-Slavery Heroes
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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