Radicalism and social change in Jamaica, 1960-1972 /

Radicalism and social change in Jamaica, 1960-1972 /

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Author / Creator:Gray, Obika, 1948-
Imprint:Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1990.
Description:xiv, 289 p ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Radicalism -- Jamaica.
Social movements -- Jamaica.
Politics and government
Radicalism.
Social movements.
Jamaica -- Politics and government -- 1962-
Jamaica.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1098491
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ISBN:0870496603 (alk. paper) : $42.50
0870496611 (pbk. : alk. paper) : $19.95
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Authoritarian Democracy, Social Movements, and Change in Jamaica
  • States, Societies, and Social Movements in the Third World: Contrasting Views
  • The Specificity of Authoritarian Democracy in Jamaica
  • Postindependence Social Movements in Jamaica: A Reappraisal
  • 2. The Travail of Decolonization
  • The Peculiarities of Native Consciousness: The Intermediate Class
  • The Political Economy of Middle-Class Consciousness
  • Popular Consciousness and Revolt: Worker-Peasant Anticolonialism to 1937
  • The Advent of Nationalist Leadership: The Emergence of Alexander Bustamante and Norman Manley
  • The 1938 Rebellion and Its Aftermath
  • The Advent of National Trade Unions and Political Parties
  • Authoritarianism and Dependent Development
  • Decline of the Left and New Economic Developments
  • The Dominance of Foreign Capital in the Economy
  • Dependent Capitalism and Class Formation
  • The Subordinate Classes
  • The Urban Working Class
  • Conclusion
  • 3. The End of Apprenticeship: Autocratic Rule and the Two Nationalisms
  • 4. Militant Laborism and Popular Protest
  • The Origins of the Unemployed Workers' Council
  • The Specificity of the Urban Unemployed: The City of Kingston
  • The Phenomenon of the Rebellious Urban Youths
  • UWC Activism Among Unemployed Workers
  • Exceptionalism and the Politics of Ethnic Chauvinism
  • 5. The Politics of the Young Socialist League
  • Organization and Educational Work
  • The Struggle at the YSL's Second Congress
  • Democratic Socialism and the Abortive November 1964 PNP Conference
  • The Young Socialists Respond
  • The Debacle in the Sugar Fields
  • 6. The Deepening Crisis of the Regime: Social Disorder and the Advent of a Nationalist Intelligentsia
  • The University as a Site of Conflict: The Politics of the Intelligentsia, 1960-67
  • The Origins of the University of the West Indies: Caribbean Upheaval and Imperial Fait Accompli
  • The Emergence of the New World Group
  • Anomalies of Theoretical Activism: Rationality and Anti Politics
  • 7. The Advent of Black Power and the State's Reaction
  • Black Power in Jamaica
  • The Authoritarian Counter-Offensive: The Regime and the Daily Gleaner Respond
  • 8. The Apogee of Black Power Ideology: The Abeng Newspaper Movement
  • 9. Activism and Political Change, 1969-72
  • The Advent of Independent Workers' Unions: The ITAC
  • The Crisis Deepens at Mona: The Expansion of Student Protest
  • The JLP's Political Decline
  • The Recuperation of the PNP
  • The Enigma of the PNP's Victory
  • 10. The Dissident Movement and Social Change, 1960-72
  • 11. Epilogue: The Fate of the Opposition, 1972-88
  • Ascent and Decline of the Left, 1972-80
  • A Pyrrhic Electoral Victory, 1977-80
  • Recriminations, Leftwing Disarray, and a PNP Revival: The Seaga Years, 1981-88
  • Perspective on an Era: Social Movements and the Struggle for Change in Jamaica, 1960-88
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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