Ethnic minorities
Chen, Ray, The Shopkeepers: Commemorating 150 years of the Chinese in Jamaica 1854-2004 (Kingston, Periwinkle Publishers, 2005); Erickson, Edgar, ‘The Introduction of East Indian Coolies into the British West Indies’, Journal of Modern History, VI, 2, 1934; Henriques, Fernando, Family and Colour in Jamaica (London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1953); Karras, Alan L, Sojourners in the Sun: Scottish migrants in Jamaica and the Chesapeake 1740-1800 (Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1992); Mansingh, Laxmi and Mansingh, Ajai, ‘Indian Heritage in Jamaica’, Jamaica Journal, X, 2, 3, 4, 1976, and Home Away from Home: 150 years of Indian presence in Jamaica 1845-1995 (Kingston, Ian Randle Publications, 1999); Ranston, Jackie, The Lindo Legacy (London, Toucan Books, 2000); Sardar, Ziauddin, Balti Britain: A journey through the British Asian experience (London, Granta, 2008); Stoppi, Maurice, Hope Road (New York, TFG Press, 2004).
Fiction
Berry, James, Windrush Songs (Tarset, Bloodaxe Books, 2007); Cezair-Thompson, Margaret, The Pirate’s Daughter (London, Headline, 2007); Cumberland, Richard, ‘The West Indian: A Comedy in Five Acts’, in The London Stage: A collection of the most reputed tragedies, comedies, operas, melo-dramas, farces and interludes, vol. I (London, Sherwood and Jones, 1830); Ellis, Garfield, For Nothing At All (Oxford, Macmillan Caribbean, 2005); Hughes, Richard, A High Wind in Jamaica (London, The Harvill Press, 1995); Johnson, Linton Kwesi, Mi Revalueshanary Fren: Selected poems (London, Penguin Books, 2002); Jones, Evan, Stone Haven (London, Heinemann, 1993); Kennaway, Guy, One People (Edinburgh, Payback Press, 1997); Miller, Kei, The Same Earth (London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008); Ross, Jacob, Pynter Bender, (London, Fourth Estate, 2008); Thelwell, Michael, The Harder They Come (London, Pluto Press, 1980).
Index
Aarons, Charles
abengs
Abyssinians (group)
Africa: dreams of return to; and Jamaican culture; Maroon sense of African identity; as place of ancestral shame; slavery; see also Ethiopia
agriculture, see also coffee; sugar industry
AIDS see HIV/AIDS
Aitken, Laurel
‘Al Capone’ (Prince Buster)
Albert, Monsignor Richard
Allen, Madge
Althea and Donna
Amin
Amis, Martin
Anansi stories
Andy, Bob
Andy, Horace
Angola
Annotto Bay
Antigua
Aristide, Jean-Bertrand
Arthur’s Seat
Asbroeck, Herman van
Ascension Trust
Ashanti
Ashwood, Amy
Attenborough, David
Attlee, Mary
Augier, Roy
Baker, Lorenzo Dow
Balcarres, Earl of
Banbury, T.
Banton, Buju
Baptists
Barbados
Barber, Francis
Barrett, Aston ‘Family Man’
Barrett, Carlton ‘Carly’
Barrett, Edward (18th century)
Barrett, Edward (19th century)
Barrett Town
bauxite
Beaton, Cecil
Beckett, Harry
Beckford, William
Bedward, Alexander
Bedwardite Movement
Beenie Man
Beeston, Sir William
Beginner, Lord
Belafonte, Harry
Bellevue
Beng, Chacha
Benjamin, Arthur
Bennett, Headley
Bennett, Val
Bentinck, Tim
Berbick, Trevor
Berlin (Jamaica)
Bernard, Isaac
Bernard, Winston ‘Bobcat’
Berry, James
Besson, Jean
Bethel Town
Betton, Ann
Betton, Bob
Bilby, Kenneth M.
birds
Birmingham
Black and White Social Club
Black Power (Carmichael and Hamilton)
Black Power movement
Black River (town and river)
Black Star Line
Black Uhuru
Blackwell, Blanche
Blackwell, Chris
Blagrove, Peter and Alice
Blagrove family
Blair, Tony
Blake, William
Blue Mountains
Bluefields house
Bluefields village
Bogle, Clovis
Bogle, Paul
Bolan, Marc
Bond books and films
Boothe, Ken
Bounty Killer
Braithwaite, Junior
Brawne, Fanny
Bridges, Revd George Wilson
Britain: 1958 riots; buses; colonial legacy to Jamaica; Jamaican immigrants; and Jamaican independence; Jamaican influence on culture; Jamaican nostalgia for; Jamaican rule and colonialism; Maroons’ anglophilia; modern influence in Jamaica; NHS; postcolonial links with Jamaica; race relations; and slavery; see also London
British Commonwealth
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Bull Bay
Burnin’ (Bob Marley and the Wailers)
Burning Spear
Burns, Robert
buses: Jamaica, London
Bushman
Bustamante, Alexander
Bustamante Industrial Trade Union
Buster, Prince
butterflies
Byles, Junior
Byron, George Gordon Lord
‘Call the Hearse’ (Bushman)
Campaign Against Racial Discrimination (CARD)
Campbell, Janice
Campbell, Leeroy James
Canada
capital punishment
Cardiff Hall
Cargill, Morris
Caribbean Artists Movement
Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI)
Carlyle, Thomas
Carmichael, Stokely
Cash, Johnny
Casino Royale (Fleming)
Castle Comfort village
Castro, Fidel
Catch a Fire (Bob Marley and the Wailers)
Catholic Church
CBI see Caribbean Basin Initiative
Chamberlain, Leslie
Champagnie, Leeka
Charles I, King
Charles, Prince
Charles, Ray
Chattersingh, Mr
Chester Castle
Chevannes, Barry
Chicago
childcare
Chin, Ilene and Winston
Chin, Michael Lee
Chin, Vincent ‘Randy’
China: Japanese invasion
Chinese Benevolent Society
Chinese Jamaicans
Chong, Sheila
Chong Sang, George
Christian, Charlie
Christianity see Baptists; Catholic Church; Moravian Brethren; Pentecostalism; Quakers; Revivalism; Seventh Day Adventists
Churchill, Winston
CIA
cinchona
Cinchona Gardens
Cinnamon Hill
Clapton, Eric
Clarke, Billy
Clarke, Edith
Clarke, Robert
Clarkson, Thomas
Clash
Cliff, Jimmy
Coburn, James
cocaine
Cochrane, Kelso
Codner, Lloyd
coffee
Coleyville
Colombia
colonialism see Britain
Columbus, Christopher
Columbus, Diego
Comitas, Lambros
Cooke, Sir Howard
Cooke, Ian
Cooper, Laura Facey
Cooper, Michael ‘Ibo’
Coore, Stephen ‘Cat’
Cornwall Barracks village
Cotton Tre
e
cotton trees
Count Ossie and the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari
Cousins, Linval
Cousins, Lorenzo ‘Larry’
Coward, Noel
Creoles
cricket
‘Cricket, Lovely Cricket’ (Lord Kitchener)
crime: causes; Jamaican criminals deported home; punishments; see also legal and justice system; murder
Crimean War
crocodiles
Cromwell, Oliver
Crum-Ewing, Robin
Cuba: Bustamante’s attitude; homophobia; Jamaican proximity; Manley’s support for; and Obama; and PNP Brigadista programme
Culture
Cumberland, Richard
Cummings, Lloyd
Cushing, Peter
dancehall (ragga)
dancehallese
Darien
Darlingford
Darwin, Charles
Davis, Captain John
Dawes, Neville
death: funerary customs
Deep Purple
Dekker, Desmond
Desnoes, Joanie
Desulmé, Myrtha
Dickens, Charles
Dillon, Leonard ‘Sparrow’
‘Do the Reggay’ (Toots and the Maytals)
Dodd, Clement ‘Sir Coxsone’
Dodd, Norma
domestic servants
dominoes
Donnell, Adaina
Dr Dre
Dr No (Fleming)
Dr No (film)
Dragonaires
Drax Hall sugar estate
dreadlocks
drugs: and crime; ganja; smuggling; Drummond, Don
Duncker, Patricia
Duncker, Sheila
Dunham, Katherine
Dunphy, Hugh
Dunphy, Ouida
Duvalier, Papa Doc
Dylan, Bob
Eden, Anthony
Edgar Broughton Band
education; musical see also literacy
Edwards, Prince Emmanuel
Elephant Man
Elizabeth II, Queen
Elizabeth, Queen, Queen Mother
Ellis, Alton
Ellis, Garfield
emigration: Britain; Panama; returnees; USA
Epworth district
Eric Dean’s Orchestra
Escalante, HMS
Ethiopia; see also Haile Selassie, King Emperor
Ethiopian Coptic Church of Zion
Ethiopian Salvation Society
Ethiopians (group)
evangelism
Evans, David
Evelyn, John
‘Everything Crash’ (Ethiopians)
Eyre, Edward
Facey, Maurice
Facey, Valerie
Fairweather, Helen
Fairweather, James
Fairweather, Roy
Falmouth; Barrett House
families
Fanti
Farrakhan, Louis
Father and Son (Gosse)
Fatherless Crew
Ferguson, ‘Judge’
Finch, Peter
Firefly
First Africa Corps
Fleming, Ann
Fleming, Ian: attitude to hybridity; characters; Gothicism; Jamaican presence in novels; life; and Walsh
Fleming, Peter
Flynn, Errol: habits; Jamaican properties; lovers
folklore and superstitions: Anansi stories; cotton trees
Foot, Sir Hugh
Foot, Isaac
Foot, Michael
Foot, Oliver
For Nothing At All (Ellis)
For Your Eyes Only (Fleming)
Foxy’s International
Fraser, Norma
Friesen, Father Francis
funerals and funerary customs
Fyffes banana company
gambling and gaming
ganja
Gardner, Olga
Garvey, Marcus: Bobo Ashanti attitude to; first burial place; on Haile Selassie; and Maroons; and Negro World; overview; prophecies; repatriation of remains; return to Jamaica; and skin lightening
George III, King
George V, King
Georgia farm
German Jamaicans
Gladdy and the Groove Syndicate
Golden Grove
Goldeneye
Goldfinger (Fleming)
Golding, Bruce
Golding, Sir John
Gomes, Carolyn
Gordon, George
Goretti, Sister Maria
Gosse, Edmund
Gosse, Philip
Graham, Aston
Graham, Lancel
Grant, Esther
Gray, Henry
Green Bay Massacre
Green Castle estate
Green Hill coffee farm
Greene, Graham
Greene, Richard
Greenwood
Grenada
Griffiths, Marcia
guard dogs
Guevara, Che
guns: Manley’s measures against; sources
‘Guns of Brixton’ (Clash)
Guyana
Haile Selassie, King Emperor: attitude to Rastafarians; colonial British attitude to; Garvey on feudalism; and Manley; and Mussolini’s invasion; Rastafarian attitude to; and slavery; state visit to Jamaica
Hailey, Benita
Haiti (formerly Saint Domingue)
Hall, Dr Horace
Hamilton, Charles V.
Hamilton, Sheila
The Harder They Come (film)
‘The Harder They Come’ (Cliff)
Harlem Renaissance
Harriott, Joe
Hart, Richard
Headley, Melford
Hearne, John
Hearne, Leeta
Hector’s River
Henriques, Ainsley
Henriques, Emanuel ‘Manny’
Henry, Claudius
Henry, Lena ‘Dimple’
Henry, Ronald
Henzell, Justine
Henzell, Perry
Henzell, Sally
Heptones
Hepworth family
A High Wind in Jamaica (film)
Hinds, Donald
Hindus
Hitler, Adolf
HIV/AIDS
Holland Bay
homosexuality
Honeygan, Havelyn
Hope, Bun Man
Hope Road (Stoppi)
Hordley
Hosay
Howell, Leonard Percival
Hudson, Zede and Millicent
Huggins, Molly
Huntley, Eric
Hurston, Zora Neale
Huxley, Thomas
Hyam, Lina
‘I Don’t Want To See You Cry’ (Andy)
‘I’ve Got To Go Back Home’ (Andy)
In the Light (Andy)
‘Independent Jamaica’ (Lord Creator)
Indian Jamaicans
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Isaac, Les
Islam
Island Records see also Blackwell, Chris
Israel Vibration
Itopia
Jackson, Horace
Jagger, Mick
‘Jamaica’ (Coward)
Jamaica and Jamaicans: 1938 riots; 1944 election; 1976 election; colonial legacy; ethnic origins; etymology; history; influence abroad; Manley’s government; nationalism and independence; postcolonial government and politics; Seaga’s government; Shearer’s government; State of Emergency (1976)
Jamaica Labour Party (JLP): and 1944 election; bribery and corruption; foundation; Green Bay Massacre; and homosexuality; plots against Manley; and republicanism; rivalry with PNP; Seaga’s government; Shearer’s government
Jamaican Coffee Board
Jamaicans for Justice
James II, King
James, Jimmy
James, Marlon
James, Zimroy ‘Zim’ and Chrisida
; Japan: invasion of China
jazz
Jefferson, Andy
Jefferson, Mark
Jesuits
Jews
Jimmy James and the Vagabonds
JLP see Jamaica Labour Party
John, Augustus
John Crowe’s Devil (James)
Johnson, Linton Kwesi
Johnson, Lyndon
Johnson, Dr Samuel
Johnston, Denzil
Jones, Claudia
Jones, Evan
Jones, Gloria
Jones, Grace
Jones, Ken
Jones, Mick
Jones, Richard
Journey to an Illusion (Hinds)
justice system see legal and justice system
Kaempfert, Bert
Kingsley, Charles
Kingston: Alpha Boys’ School; anti-Chinese riots; August Town; Backtu; buses; Chinatown; Chinese Benevolent Society HQ; Coronation Market; as drug smuggling hub; Duke Street synagogue; financial district; Hagley Park Road Hindu Temple; Gemini nightclub; government housing estates; Grants Pen; Gun Court detention centre; Hanna’s Betta Buy; Hannah Town; Hanover Street; history; Hunts Bay Jewish cemetery; Joy Town Learning Centre; Mandarin restaurant; Nuttall Hospital; Operation Restoration; Orange Street; overview; Patrick City; Port Bustamante container terminal; Portmore; Princess Peace Gardens; rail station; Red Stripe brewery; Rema; Riverton City; rural migration to; St Anne’s church; St George’s Jesuit College; Seventh Street; slave depot and slavery; Spanish Town Road; Studio One; Supreme Court; Tivoli Gardens; traffic congestion; Trench Town; Victoria Jubilee Hospital; Wolmer’s Girls School
Kinkead, Cookie
Kinkead, Dick
Kissinger, Henry
Knibb, William
Koestler, Arthur
Kong, Leslie
Kool DJ Herc
Kray brothers
Ku Klux Klan
Kumina
Lamming, George
Lamont, Marjorie
land ownership
Langford, Cecil
Langford, Mary
language: dancehallese; Jamaican admiration for verbal dexterity; Jamaicans and aitches; Maroons; patwa
Lee, Byron
legal and justice system: under British rule; capital punishment; inoperability; Jamaican current; mob vengeance; prisons punishments; wrongful acquittals; see also police
leprosy
Levy, Earl
Lewis, Matthew ‘Monk’
Lichfield, Patrick
lighthouses
Lindo, Alexandre
Lindo, Louis
Lindo, Myra
literacy
literature see novels; poetry
Little, Kenneth
Livingstone, ‘Ras Dizzy’