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An ethnography of football and masculinities in Jamaica : letting the football talk
\"What can football among young men in Jamaica tell us about class, wealth, age and concepts of masculinity? William Tantam presents an ethnographic study of the impact of football on men's lives in contemporary Jamaica. He illuminates how the football field relates to social and economic inequalities, and considers whether playing football in a mixed group has the effect of levelling the playing field between the more and less economically wealthy. Tantam presents insights into the life histories and football biographies of individuals, the relationship between wealth, education and class, and explores how socioeconomic inequalities are embodied and enacted. With rich ethnographic detail, he analyses how the experience of watching international football matches and the English Premier League locates groups of spectators in relation to wider movements of capital\"--Back cover.
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Disability and inequality : socioeconomic imperatives and public policy in Jamaica
Disability and Inequality explores the lived experiences of persons with disabilities (PWDs) in Jamaica.
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Words to Our Now
In these lyrical and powerful essays, Thomas Glave draws on his experiences as a politically committed, gay Jamaican American to deliver a condemnation of the prejudices and inhumanities that persist in the United States and elsewhere. From the death of poet Essex Hemphill to the revelations of abuse at Abu Ghraib, Glave puts forth a deeply ethical understanding of human rights._x000B_
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'Legitimacy' and social boundaries: free people of colour and the social order in Jamaican slave society
This article explores relations between free people of colour and white men in early nineteenth-century Jamaica. Using evidence from wills and other contemporary sources, it considers the types of bequests that white slaveholders made to free people of colour and to white people. In a slave society divided by racialized boundaries of rule, slaveholders' liaisons with non-white concubines and the existence of mixed-race children had the potential to undermine the local social order. However, slaveholders sought to limit the wealth of non-whites and did not recognize mixed-race children as their legitimate heirs. Therefore, free people of colour gained only limited benefits from their relations with white men. While free non-whites frequently received bequests of land, personal property and slaves from white testators, the main beneficiaries of slaveholders' wills were almost always white men. These practices kept wealth mainly in the hands of whites and perpetuated racialized boundaries of rule in Jamaica. However, they also led to the emergence of a relatively privileged coloured section of local society that became an important element in social and political life.
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Public Discourse, Popular Culture and Attitudes Towards Homosexuals in Jamaica
This paper utilised data from a convenience sample of working age Jamaicans to explore dimensions of their attitudes towards homosexuals. The results confirm strong negative attitudes towards homosexuals and suggested alignment with attitudes emanating from sources as distinct as the church, the state and the proponents of popular culture (Dancehall DJs). The paper argues that such attitudes are socially and economically unsustainable and that their pervasiveness derives from a strain of hegemonic masculinity that supports the oppression of less powerful groups even while it threatens the viability of the overall economy and society. El presente trabajo parte del estudio de datos extraídos de una muestra de conveniencia de jamaicanos en edad laboral con el objeto de explorar las dimensiones de sus actitudes hacia los homosexuales. Los resultados confirman la existencia de fuertes actitudes negativas hacia los homosexuales y sugieren la alineación con actitudes que emanan de fuentes tan significativas como la iglesia, el estado y los voceros de la cultura popular (Dancehall DJs). El trabajo plantea que tales actitudes son tanto social como económicamente insostenibles y que su influencia se deriva de una tendencia de masculinidad hegemónica que apoya la opresión de los grupos más débiles aun cuando lo mismo amenace la viabilidad de la economía y sociedad en general. Cet article s'est servi de données provenant d'un échantillon aléatoire de jamaïcains en âge de travailler pour explorer les dimensions de leurs attitudes envers les homosexuels. Les résultats confirment des attitudes fortement négatives envers les homosexuels et suggèrent une convergence avec les attitudes émanant de sources aussi distinctes que l'église, l'Etat et les agents de culture populaire (les Deejays de Dancehall). L'article soutient que de telles attitudes ne sont pas durables socialement et économiquement parlant et que leur prépondérance découle d'un courant de masculinité hégémonique qui appuie l'oppression des groupes les plus faibles tout en menaçant la viabilité de l'économie et de la société en général.
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Women's Lives and labour on Radnor, a Jamaican Coffee Plantation, 1822-1826
While it is possible, and perhaps even probable, that the female domestic workers were women of childb earing age, none of these women were recorded in the plantations book as having given birth. [...]while it is possible that some of the five domestics on Radnor were in this demographic group, it is also possible that the domestics were either mature women who were no longer useful to the planter as field labourers or young women who were not yet old enough to be useful as field labourers. Because there was a West African tradition of inoculating children with yaws shortly before they were weaned, it is possible that Grace died as a result of this inoculation. According to her own testimony concerning this incident, the overseer Mr. Murray put me in Dark Hole -place not fit to put Dog in-this rain weather, it is all swamped up with wet-the ground all mud-no board to lie upon, obliged to stand up all night. [...]on Radnor, more women than men chose flight and absences from the plantation as strategies of resistance to the slave regime, despite the threat of apprehension and violent punishment.
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Professionally Successful Women: Some Evidence from the English-Speaking Caribbean
This article reports on a study of professionally successful women in three countries in the English-speaking Caribbean-Barbados, Jamaica, and St. Vincent & the Grenadines. The study is part of a larger study that includes countries throughout the Americas. The overall objective of the study was to identify personal and social characteristics of professionally successful women, and to consider these across nations, by incorporating cultural measures. The study uses both quantitative and qualitative measures. Results suggested that, as hypothesized, professionally successful women scored higher on need for achievement, internal locus of control, and self-efficacy than did a comparative student group. Contrary to expectations, mentoring was not identified as especially important in achieving success, but family support was identified as important. On the cultural variables, successful women and the comparative student group scored similarly-moderate on collectivism/individualism, low on power distance, and high on uncertainty avoidance. The similarities and differences across the three countries included in the study are discussed.
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Gender Compensation Differentials in Jamaica
An investigation is made of the nature of compensation differentials between men and women and occupational segregation in the formal sector in Jamaica. Formal-sector jobs in a developing country are characterized as better paying and having better working conditions than informal-sector jobs or self-employment. In Jamaica, 48.4% of workers were employed in formal-sector jobs in April 1988. If particular members of an economy either are excluded from the formal sector (through discrimination) or do not find it in their interest (in terms of relative rewards) to pursue jobs in the formal sector, the economy loses valuable human productivity and the government loses revenues from those potential taxpayers. The mean salary for women in the Jamaican formal sector is 80% of the mean salary for men. By controlling for various human capital and job characteristics, the degree to which wage differentials in Jamaica are explained by differences in individual characteristics and the degree to which they are left unexplained is identified.
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Paying the Piper Twice: Gender and the Process of Globalization
Examines a feminist anthropological perspective, which analyzes connections between the household and the national economy, to understand the impact of structural adjustment policies and of NAFTA; Caribbean region with special reference to Jamaica.
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