Public Secrets: Race and Colour in Colonial and Independent Jamaica

Henrice Altink

Public Secrets

Race and Colour in Colonial and Independent Jamaica

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Informed by critical race theory and based on a wide range of sources, including official sources, memoirs, and anthropological studies, this book examines multiple forms of racial discrimination in Jamaica and how they were talked about and experienced from the end of the First World War until the demise of democratic socialism in the 1980s. It also pays attention to practices devoid of racial content but which equally helped to sustain a society stratified by race and colour, such as voting qualifications. Case studies on the labour market, education, the family and legal system, among other areas, demonstrate the extent to which race and colour shaped social relations in the island in the decades preceding and following independence and argue that racial discrimination was a public secret - everybody knew it took place but few dared to openly discuss or criticise it. The book ends with an examination of race and colour in contemporary Jamaica to show that race and colour have lost little of their power since independence and offers some suggestions to overcome the silence on race to facilitate equality of opportunity for all.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Illustrations, Figures, Tables, and Maps
pp ix-x

Acknowledgements
pp xi-xii

List of Abbreviations
pp xiii-xiv

Introduction
pp 1-20

1 - Race at Work
pp 21-65

2 - ‘Equality of Opportunity for All Children’
pp 66-114

3 - Race in Everyday Life
pp 115-159

4 - Commitment to Colour-Blindness
pp 160-208

5 - The Silence and Salience of Race
pp 209-236

Bibliography
pp 237-256

Index
pp 257-262

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