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Contains seventeen articles reflecting scholarship in traditional and emerging areas of social psychology. Major topics addressed include the subjective evaluation of emotions; the psychology of values; self-definition; priming and racial stereotyping; self-harming; visual communication and emotion recognition; comparative studies of values; duration of romantic relationships; social psychological antecedents of burnout; and social integration and language effects on bilinguals.

From its first appearance in 1939 with a group of men knocking on pots and pans to the 1951 Trinidad All-Steel Percussion Orchestra (TASPO), steelband has fascinated the world. Relying largely on oral histories, this work investigates and documents the different technical, musical and organisational steps by which the steelband movement was born and grew to maturity.

A biography of Edward Philip George Seaga, retired prime minister of Jamaica (1980-1989) and former leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (1974-2005). It examines Seaga in light of the 20th-century history of Jamaica, which experienced the challenges of race, colour, the transition from the British colonial period to independence in 1962.

A History of Money and Banking in Barbados documents the development of money and commercial banking in Barbados from the date of the settlement in 1627 to the establishment of the Central Bank of Barbados in 1973. It examines the early years of barter; the introduction of British coins by the Royal Proclamations of 1825 and 1838; the issue of colonial coins (anchor money); the introduction and circulation of foreign coins; the debate over the legal tender of British silver coins and the share of the seigniorage of these coins. Armstrong examines the first banks, the Colonial Bank and the West India Bank, in the nineteenth century, the introduction of Canadian banks in the twentieth century, the expansion of Barclays Bank as well as the issue of Barbados government currency notes; the measures taken by the British government and the Caribbean governments during the Second World War to ensure an adequate supply of currency; and the agreement between Barbados, Trinidad and British Guiana (Guyana) to make their government currency legal tender in each country. Armstrong analyses the establishment and operation of the British Caribbean Currency Board and its acrimonious demise, the establishment of the East Caribbean Currency Authority, the withdrawal of Barbados from the Authority, and the establishment of the Central Bank of Barbados.

In contemporary times, the bindi (red dot between the eyebrows) is decorative as well as religious, and is worn by women of any marital status, Hindu or non-Hindu, in India, its diaspora and globally. Rosanne Kanhai uses the ""bindi"" to chracterise how Indo-Caribbean women come into their own in multiple ways.

Brings together a number of monographs from the mid to late eighteenth century on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of African and Creole slaves in the English-speaking Caribbean.

Documents the history of Caribbean airlines and attempts to demystify the complexities of concepts such as deregulation, yield management, hedging of oil prices, fare setting, fuel surcharges and a la carte pricing. This title also explores the impact of the global economic meltdown of 2008-2009 on air transportation and Caribbean tourism.

Although many studies exist on poverty in developing countries, traditionally they tend to utilize either a subjective or an objective approach. This study is part of an emerging trend and embraces both methodologies and utilizes qualitative and quantitative data to study poverty in five Jamaican communities. In the course of his research, Benfield found that individuals often defined themselves as poor when the government did not and vice versa. In many cases, individuals did not participate in social and economic programmes because they did not believe they were "poor" although the government objectively defined them as such. For many of these households, their definition of their economic status depended on their access to education, their neighbourhood, their purchasing power for consumable goods, whether or not they received remittances from abroad, and their gender. Poverty and Perception in Jamaica has major policy implications for Jamaica and the increased economic well-being of its citizens. Benfield proposes problem-solving measures for poverty alleviation and this work makes a significant contribution to the theoretical literature on poverty measurement.

Examining the work of Robert Antoni, the Trinidadian/ Bahamian Caribbean writer, this title places his work in the multiple contexts of Caribbean storytelling, twentieth-century literature and contemporary Caribbean fiction. It explores each of his innovative and complex texts.

Discusses the development of Caribbean English usage since 1992, after ""The Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage"" was completed. This title comprises about 700 items, including words with senses or usages, acronyms, and abbreviations that have emerged out of the ecological and cultural domains of the CARICOM territories, from Guyana to Belize.

A pioneering work on the experiences of Grenadian women over two centuries of British colonialism, "Gairyism" and socialist revolution. It moves away from a narrow approach of highlighting outstanding figures and revolutionary women to one that encompasses the experiences of women of all walks of life.

Deals with the problems faced in analyzing the economics of small countries and seeks to apply these concepts to West Indian economies. This title states that economic development and the achievement of self-sustained growth cannot be considered in isolation from the size of the country.

Cultural DNA builds on developments within indigenous Caribbean feminisms and gender studies as well as feminist anthropological currents to explore the nature of the rural Afro-Jamaican gender system, drawing on more than a decade of fieldwork in rural Jamaica. It is a cultural story of gender in rural Jamaica, specifically an ethnography of anthropological knowledge about the gender systems of rural Afro-Jamaicans in the community of Frankfield, Clarendon. It makes significant contributions to Caribbean feminist thought by offering novel ways of conceiving, portraying and reflecting on the significance of the dominant gender system through the use of a unique metaphor that posits a figurative relationship, comparing the role of gender in culture to DNA in biological life. In so doing, it asserts an ongoing, important role for non-native ethnography in the study of Caribbean gender dynamics.

Presents an examination of freedmen in the slave society of Barbados from the earliest periods of the slave society to emancipation in 1834. This book shows how the freedmen's struggle for civil rights was a collective effort to maximize their free status and to avoid a position of permanent intermediacy between white and enslaved.

Widening the cultural lens to include diasporic studies, art, and questions of race and gender, this book exposes how the history of Haiti has shaped our ideas of race, nation and civilization in ways that we are often unaware of. It explores the cultural echoes of the revolution in Haiti, the Caribbean, the United States and Europe.

Presents contemporary readings that contest in the areas of Caribbean religion, education, language, music, race, sexual behavior in a time of the AIDS pandemic, and the economy.

What was it like to be a small boy growing up in Kingston, Jamaica in the 1930s? The author presents his boyhood, and in his own voice talked about it in his radio programme "When Me Was a Boy". He brings his school days to life: the tramcar and horse-and-buggy days when cars were few and far between and taking a walk was a social occasion.

Chronicles the Tobago movement for autonomy from Trinidad from the time of the union of these two Caribbean islands from 1889 to 1980 when Tobago gained internal self-government. This book argues that the problems Tobagonians were longstanding and can be traced throughout the history of the union.

Based upon the records of the Barclays Bank (DCO), as well as Colonial Office records and other documentation, this history provides a detailed examination of the performance and strategies of the bank during periods of crisis and change in the West Indies. It also examines the bank's performance during the Depression years.

Reconstructs a biography of enslaved Archibald Monteath, an Igbo, who was brought to Jamaica around 1802, became active in the Moravian Church and later purchased his freedom. This book explores the sociology of slavery from 1750 to the 1860s through Monteath's biography.

Presents a case study of a Jamaican high school, formerly known as a junior secondary high school. This work demonstrates the continuing education problem encountered by students and teachers in a two-tiered educational system. It provides several solutions for the transformation of schools as places for learning and character development.

Dame Eugenia Charles was the female prime minister in the Caribbean. This book features nine essays that capture critical elements of her life and times and her motivations as prime minister of Dominica. It reveals an admiration for her as a purpose-driven female leader, who never acted out of malice or vindictiveness.

Haiti, its revolution and its culture remain largely unknown or misunderstood in the English-speaking world. This collection of essays seeks to elucidate aspects of Haitian history and culture and addresses questions, such as: What were, what are the cultural repercussions of Haiti's revolution, in Haiti and elsewhere?

Discusses mainly economic factors influencing Barbadian economic development since the Second World War. This work provides an interpretation of the role of foreign investment and public policy in the development process, within the conceptual framework of institutional structural analysis.

The Caribbean Heritage series is designed to publish new editions of historically significant works of fiction from our region. The first three volumes in the series comprise four Trinidadian novels published between 1838 and 1907.

This book offers a preliminary overview of writing by white West Indians, identifying stereotypes and relating Anthony C. Winkler's books to prevalent trends demonstrated by other white West Indians.

The book presents a representative selection of the papers presented at the second Conference on Caribbean Culture in honour of Kamau Brathwaite.

his book is a study of how African slave and freed women used their fashion and style of dressing as a symbol of resistance to slavery and accommodation to white culture in pre and post-emancipation society. Africans brought aspects of their culture such as folklore, music, language, religion and dress with them to the Americas.

A collection of lectures delivered between 1987 and 1998. The book is divided into two sections: slavery and freedom, which features critical research on slavery and post-emancipation society, and gender.

Originally published in 1992, this text considers out-migration from the Caribbean in an analytical manner. Its comparative approach, involving three islands (Jamaica, Barbados and St Vincent) and the range of micro-environments within those islands, is based on extensive surveys and interviews.