Family and Colour in JamaicaEyre & Spottiswoode, 1953 - 196 pages |
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Page 27
... Herskovits is of the same opinion regarding Haiti.1 Slavery remains the motif of Jamaican society throughout the eighteenth century but as the century progresses the structure begins to be disturbed . The era of tremendous opulence when ...
... Herskovits is of the same opinion regarding Haiti.1 Slavery remains the motif of Jamaican society throughout the eighteenth century but as the century progresses the structure begins to be disturbed . The era of tremendous opulence when ...
Page 49
... Herskovits explains it in terms of an under - privileged minority taking over an out- standing characteristic of the dominant majority , and on the grounds that the lighter coloured Negro with white blood is both socially and ...
... Herskovits explains it in terms of an under - privileged minority taking over an out- standing characteristic of the dominant majority , and on the grounds that the lighter coloured Negro with white blood is both socially and ...
Page 103
... Herskovits.1 Substantiation of this would depend for example upon demon- strating that patrilineal influence in Haiti has produced a different type of family organization from that which is extant in Jamaica , where the predominant ...
... Herskovits.1 Substantiation of this would depend for example upon demon- strating that patrilineal influence in Haiti has produced a different type of family organization from that which is extant in Jamaica , where the predominant ...
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