The Jamaica reader : history, culture, politics
(Book)

I. Becoming Jamaica. Taíno society / Kit W. Wesler ; Taíno worship / Ramón Pané ; The first European account of Jamaica / Andrés Bernáldez ; A Spanish settler in Jamaica / Pedro de Maçuelo ; The Spanish capital / James Robertson ; Slavery in Spanish Jamaica / Francisco Morales Padrón ; A description of Spanish Jamaica / Francisco Marques de Villalobos ; The economy of Spanish Jamaica / Alonzo de Miranda ; The western design / Juan Ramírez ; Mountains of gold turned into dross / Anonymous ; The establishment of Maroon society / Robert Sedgwicke and William Goodson

II. From English conquest to slave society. Pirate stronghold / Nuala Zahedieh ; Port Royal destroyed / Anonymous ; White servants / Government of Jamaica ; The rise of slave society / Richard S. Dunn ; African music in Jamaica / Hans Sloane ; A Maroon tradition / collected by Kenneth M. Bilby ; Treaty between the British and the Maroons / Anonymous ; African arrivals / Audra A. Diptee ; Spiritual terror / Vincent Brown ; Two enslaved lives / Trevor Burnard ; Increase and decrease / managers of Haughton Tower Estate ; A free Black poet / Francis Williams ; Jamaica talk / Frederic G. Cassidy ; The War of 1760-1761 / Edward Long

III. Enlightenment Slavery. Creole society / Edward (Kamau) Brathwaite ; Cane and coffee / Robert Charles Dallas ; Women's and men's work under slavery / Lucille Mathurin Mair ; Although a slave me is born and bred / recorded by J.B. Moreton ; Capture and enslavement / Archibald John Monteath ; The Black church / George Liele ; British missionaries / Mary Turner ; The Second Maroon War / representatives of the Trelawney Town Maroons ; Jonkanoo / Michael Scott ; Provision grounds / Sidney Mintz ; The Liberation War of 1831 / Henry Bleby ; Apprenticeship and its conflicts / Diana Paton ; An apprentice's story / James Williams ; Because of 1833 / Andrew Salkey

IV. Colonial Freedom. Free villages / Jean Besson ; Cholera / Samuel Jones ; Black voters / Swithin Wilmot ; Religion after slavery / Hope Waddell ; Indentured workers / Verene Shepherd ; The Morant Bay Rebellion / Gad Heuman ; Dear Lucy / George William Gordon ; Vindicating the race / Rev. R. Gordon ; August Town craze / Frederick S. Sanguinetti ; Anansi and the tiger / Walter Jekyll ; The 1907 earthquake / Dick Chislett ; Traveling from Kingston to Montego Bay / Herbert de Lisser

V. Jamaica arise. Life in rural Jamaica / Lorna Goodison ; An amazing island / W.E.B. Du Bois ; Marcus Garvey comes to the United States / Marcus Garvey ; Jamaica and the Great War / Daily Gleaner ; Returning from war / Glenford Howe ; Self government for Jamaica / W. Adolphe Roberts ; The 1938 Rebellion / Richard Hart ; Remembering the Rebellion / Lucius Watson ; Now we know / Roger Mais ; Cookshop culture / Planters' Punch ; My mother who fathered me / Edith Clarke ; The origins of dreadlocks / Barry Chevannes ; Pleasure Island / Esther Chapman ; Hurricane Charlie / Spotlight ; Jamaican East Indians / Laxmi and Ajai Mansingh ; Blackness and beauty / Rochelle Rowe ; Chinese Jamaica / Easton Lee ; Bauxite / Sherry Keith and Robert Girling ; The West Indies Federation / Michele A. Johnson ; Rastafari and the new nation / Michael G. Smith, Roy Augier, and Rex Nettleford

VI. Independence and After. A date with destiny / Daily Gleaner ; The meaning of independence / Government of Jamaica ; The assets we have / Norman Washington Manley ; Rastafari and the Coral Gardens incident / John Maxwell and Mortimo Togo Desta Planno ; Country boy / The Heptones ; How to be a "face-man" / The Star ; Cancer in West Kingston / Edward Seaga ; Birth of the sound system / Norman C. Stolzoff ; Rudie, oh Rudie! / Garth White ; 1968 revisited / Rupert Lewis ; The visual arts / Anne Walmsley and Stanley Greaves ; Better mus' come / Delroy Wilson ; Bob Marley's fame / Ed McCormack ; Ganja smoking / Daily News ; We are not for sale / Michael Manley ; Zig-zag politics and the IMF / George L. Beckford ; Yesterday/today/tomorrow / Oku Onuora ; Equal rights / Committee of Women for Progress ; A helper's story / Sistren, with Honor Ford Smith

VII. Jamaica in the age of neoliberalism. Nine months of turmoil / Barbara Nelson ; Seaga v. Manley / Carl Stone ; Born fi' dead / Laurie Gunst ; Sunsplash 1984 / Roger Steffens ; Walking jewellery store / Yellowman ; Hurricane story, 1988 / Olive Senior ; Wild Gilbert / Lloyd Lovindeer ; Showing skin teeth / A. Lynn Bolles ; Slackness / Lady Saw ; Downtown ladies / Gina A. Ulysse ; Jamaica's shame / Thomas Glave ; Woman time now / HG Helps ; A wild ride / Robert Lalah ; Skin bleaching / Carolyn Cooper ; Tragedy in Tivoli / W. Earl Witter and Livern Barrett ; The cell phone and the economy of communication / Heather A. Horst and Daniel Miller ; Unsustainable development / Esther Figueroa ; The case for reparations / P.J. Patterson ; These islands of love and hate / Kei Miller

VIII. Jamaicans in the World. In the Canal Zone / Alfred Mitchell S. ; A diaspora story / Lok C.D. Siu and Fernando Jackson ; Going to Cuba / "Man-Boy" ; Tropics in New York / Claude McKay ; Little brown girl / Una Marson ; Colonization in reverse / Louise Bennett ; A farmworker in Florida / Delroy Livingston ; Reggae and possible Africas / Louis Chude-Sokei ; Canadian-Jamaican / Carl E. James and Andrea Davis ; A maid in New York City / Shellee Colen ; My great shun / Mutabaruka ; Homecomers / C.S. Reid ; Return to Jamaica / Emma Brooker ; Things change / Buju Banton ; Jamaica to the world / Ingrid Brown.