Browsing by Keyword "Jamaica"
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Analyzing Stress Appraisals, Coping Strategies and Defense Mechanisms of Adults in Jamaica and in the United States: A Cross-Cultural Study
(2023-05-01)The chief aim of this study is to explore coping strategies and defense mechanisms in a cross-cultural manner between American and Jamaican individuals. This study is a comparative analysis of the two groups based on ... -
Buying Livity: The Commodification of Rastafari
As the economic, military, and imperial structures which precipitated African diasporic traditions’ emergences have re-formed and evolved into modern descendent structures, we must pay special attention to how African ... -
Dethroning Justice: Race, Law, and Police after Slavery
(2021-08-31)The abolition of slavery in Jamaica and the United States, in 1834 and 1865 respectively, began the process of emancipation. In the three decades following abolition, former slaves and former slave owners struggled over ... -
Evaluation of Jamaica's PATH Conditional Cash Transfer Programme
(Routledge, 2010)This paper summarizes the findings of an evaluation of the Programme of Advancement through Health and Education (PATH), a conditional cash transfer programme implemented by the Government of Jamaica. We find that PATH was ... -
Imperial Crucible: Alcoa and the Transimperial History of American Capitalism, 1888-1953
(2022-07-18)Imperial Crucible tells the story of the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) from the company’s founding in Pittsburgh in 1888 through to the 1950s. Although scholars have long contended that American multinational ... -
“Likkle but Tallawah: Evolution and Phylogeography of a Caribbean Adaptive Radiation, the Anoline Lizards of Jamaica”
(2023-11-21)Understanding diversification is a major goal of evolutionary biology, and the study of adaptive radiations has been a key part of this pursuit – especially replicate adaptive radiations, the natural experiments that help ... -
Waters of Liberation: An Environmental History of Nineteenth-Century Jamaica
(2023-05-11)The structural conditions that gave rise to present-day climate refugees of the Caribbean harken back to the history of endemic water and food scarcity in the largest, most profitable, and deadliest slave society of the ...