Family and Colour in JamaicaEyre & Spottiswoode, 1953 - 196 pages |
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Page 31
... means of subsistence . The method is for the government to buy a large estate and divide it up into lots of varying sizes . Indivi- duals are able to rent or lease lots on favourable terms . Loans can be obtained from agricultural banks ...
... means of subsistence . The method is for the government to buy a large estate and divide it up into lots of varying sizes . Indivi- duals are able to rent or lease lots on favourable terms . Loans can be obtained from agricultural banks ...
Page 78
... means to provide themselves with adequate clothes will gather outside the church during a service , but will go away before the congre- gation comes out . Shoes are rare amongst the lower class , but great efforts are made to obtain a ...
... means to provide themselves with adequate clothes will gather outside the church during a service , but will go away before the congre- gation comes out . Shoes are rare amongst the lower class , but great efforts are made to obtain a ...
Page 130
... means whereby a person may be lifted up from poverty and agriculture to become a clerk or a professional man . As those who do achieve these positions are few in number this attitude gives to the whole of education an unreal atmosphere ...
... means whereby a person may be lifted up from poverty and agriculture to become a clerk or a professional man . As those who do achieve these positions are few in number this attitude gives to the whole of education an unreal atmosphere ...
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acceptance acres African American appears attitude banana become behaviour called cent century child Christian church colour complete concubinage dependent distinction domestic group economic European existence expression extremely fact factor fair farms father feeling figures function girl give given greater hair hand Herskovits household important Indian Indies individual island Jamaica labour land less living London lower class majority marriage married means middle class moral mother Negro never Obeah occur origin parents parish particular pattern peasant period person planters play population Port Portland position poverty practice problem produce regarded relatives result seen sense served sexual shows similar slavery slaves social society status structure sugar TABLE taken tend tion town union United upper upper class West whole wife woman women