Family and Colour in JamaicaEyre & Spottiswoode, 1953 - 196 pages |
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... African origin throughout the New World . These investigations have convincingly shown that many beliefs and practices widely followed in the West Indies are of African origin . Having myself worked in West Africa , I certainly , am ...
... African origin throughout the New World . These investigations have convincingly shown that many beliefs and practices widely followed in the West Indies are of African origin . Having myself worked in West Africa , I certainly , am ...
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... Africa has been detribalization . It appears that African tribal structure cannot survive in the face of industrialization . But the policy of apartheid in South Africa , which means the social and political subjugation of the African ...
... Africa has been detribalization . It appears that African tribal structure cannot survive in the face of industrialization . But the policy of apartheid in South Africa , which means the social and political subjugation of the African ...
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... African tribes was , in the ensuing historical process , deprived of the greater part of its African culture . The emergence of a coloured class , the result of illicit unions between black and white , which took over the European ...
... African tribes was , in the ensuing historical process , deprived of the greater part of its African culture . The emergence of a coloured class , the result of illicit unions between black and white , which took over the European ...
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