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The Nature of Velma Pollard
Soon after beginning my undergraduate degree at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, I came face to face with Velma Pollard in a corridor between classrooms. The nature of Velma-her love and empathy for people, her respect for the environment and different cultures, her expansive knowledge and innate curiosity, her celebration of life-is there in her poems. Velma, who could talk for hours about the ravages of war, the plight of the disenfranchised, the effects of natural disasters and still manage to squeeze in advice about our health and general welfare, is still with us in her poems.
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Fire rush
Yamaye lives for the weekend, when she can go raving with her friends at The Crypt, an underground club in the industrial town on the outskirts of London. A young woman unsure of her future, the sound is her guide - a chance to discover who she really is in the rhythms of those smoke-filled nights. In the dance-hall darkness, dub is the music of her soul, her friendships, her ancestry. But everything changes when she meets Moose, the man she falls deeply in love with, and who offers her the chance of freedom and escape. When their relationship is brutally cut short, Yamaye goes on a dramatic journey of transformation where past and present collide with explosive consequences.
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The zooarchaeology and isotopic ecology of the Bahamian hutia
Bahamian hutias (Geocapromys ingrahami) are the only endemic terrestrial mammal in The Bahamas and are currently classified as a vulnerable species. Drawing on zooarchaeological and new geochemical datasets, this study investigates human management of Bahamian hutias as cultural practice at indigenous Lucayan settlements in The Bahamas and the Turks & Caicos Islands. In order to determine how hutia diet and distribution together were influenced by Lucayan groups we conducted isotopic analysis on native hutia bone and tooth enamel recovered at the Major's Landing site on Crooked Island in The Bahamas and introduced hutias from the Palmetto Junction site on Providenciales in the Turks & Caicos Islands. Results indicate that some hutias consumed .sup.13 C-enriched foods that were either provisioned or available for opportunistic consumption. Strontium isotope ratios for hutia tooth enamel show a narrow range consistent with local origin for all of the archaeological specimens. In contrast, analysis of strontium isotopes in modern Bahamian hutia teeth from animals relocated to Florida from The Bahamas demonstrates that these animals rapidly lost their Bahamian signature and adopted a Florida signature. Therefore, strontium should be used cautiously for determining hutia provenance, particularly for individuals that were translocated between islands. Overall, our findings suggest that ancient human presence did not always result in hutia vulnerability and that the impact to hutia populations was variable across pre-Columbian indigenous settlements.
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How to love a Jamaican : stories
\"Sweeping from close-knit island communities to the streets of New York City and Midwestern university towns, these eleven stories form a portrait of a nation, a people, and a way of life\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Velma Pollard, Leaving Traces: A Tribute
Velma Pollard This note was handcrafted with her own photograph of the Hibiscus rosa-sinensis flower on the front cover and her stamp, Velart, on the back (fig. 1). After Velma's retirement, she found more time to indulge her native curiosity and interest in all things literary and in all the opportunities for intellectual reflection: book launches, readings, seminars, conferences, literary festivals. When she stopped driving, I was pleased to provide her a ride home from an event at UWI or to pick her up to attend a dinner party at Victor's. On my Christmas visit to Jamaica in December 2023, she regretted not being able to attend Eddie Baugh's celebration service because of a trip abroad, but on her return, she invited my family, along with Olive Senior, for lunch on December 30.
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On the troglobitic velvet worm Speleoperipatus spelaeus Peck, 1975 (Onychophora, Peripatidae): assessing the status of a Critically Endangered Jamaican invertebrate
The velvet worm Speleoperipatus spelaeus Peck, 1975 is one of the rarest velvet worm species reported, as it is only known from its type locality, Pedro Great Cave, Clarendon Parish, Jamaica. The type material of the species, the only four specimens available in known scientific collections, was obtained in the early 1970’s, and since then, no additional specimens have been available for research. More recently, observations of three probably conspecific specimens by the Jamaican Caves Organisation, not collected, have been made in a different location, Swansea Cave, Saint Catherine Parish. Here we report and document five specimens of this rare species from the type locality, Pedro Great Cave, as well as some observations about their behavior. Placing this species in a phylogenetic context should be attempted in the future, to better understand the significance of Speleoperipatus spelaeus and its evolutionary origins, its relationship to the Swansea Cave specimens, and to determine what are its closest relatives and whether those are other Jamaican species or velvet worms from other geographical areas.
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Queenie : a novel
\"Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she's constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle class peers. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places--including several hazardous men who do a good job of occupying brain space and a bad job of affirming self-worth\"-- Provided by publisher.
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SCRIPTS OF SEXUAL ETHICS: TENSIONS AND VIOLENCE WITHIN THE PERFORMANCE OF JAMAICAN CITIZENSHIP
When considering questions of sexual citizenship and independence in Jamaica, undoing the lethal histories of colonialism remains a Sisyphean project. Since Britain's terrifying reign, over-prescriptive laws govern \"appropriate\" colonial subjects. Jamaican queer bodies face difficulties in their aspirations to a queer politics devoid of persecution. Against discourses of sovereign power, biopolitics, performativity, state apparatuses, habitus, homonationalism, and sexual citizenship in Jamaica, I seek to delineate how the Buggery Act of 1533 gets embedded in the sexual mores of Jamaican normative practices. I discuss how the singularization of Jamaicanness forecloses other ways of being and knowing. Against the protracted notions of \"fabricated homogeneity\" (Walcott 99), I question who gets to partake in the \"independence\" project. I ask how we see (to borrow from Rinaldo Walcott) \"the social classifications that allocate human worth according to differential racial markers and sexual practices\" (Walcott 184) playing out in post-emancipation/independence in Jamaica. I answer these questions by offering a contemporary reading of David Myers, a deceased citizen of Britain in the 1800s, who was executed because he broke the country's code of conduct of \"appropriate\" sexuality. I use the account of Myers's violent punishment to trace erasure and the performativity of the law in determining who lives and who dies in the nineteenth-century and the contemporary performance of exclusion in the here and now of Jamaica's sexual politics.
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