Family and Colour in JamaicaEyre & Spottiswoode, 1953 - 196 pages |
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... problem . Dogmatic opinions abound ; and fruitless efforts have been made from the point of view of current Anglo - Saxon ideals of family life , to remedy this state of affairs . But scientific study to find out just what it stands for ...
... problem . Dogmatic opinions abound ; and fruitless efforts have been made from the point of view of current Anglo - Saxon ideals of family life , to remedy this state of affairs . But scientific study to find out just what it stands for ...
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... problems and family structure . As a Carnegie Research Fellow I was enabled to spend several months in the field . I ... problem of scale by concentrating in a particular area in the north - east corner of the island , the parish of ...
... problems and family structure . As a Carnegie Research Fellow I was enabled to spend several months in the field . I ... problem of scale by concentrating in a particular area in the north - east corner of the island , the parish of ...
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... problems chiefly in that the majority of the Jamaican population is black or coloured while the cultural background of ... problem began in Jamaica the day the first slave was landed on the island , or that the contemporary illegitimacy ...
... problems chiefly in that the majority of the Jamaican population is black or coloured while the cultural background of ... problem began in Jamaica the day the first slave was landed on the island , or that the contemporary illegitimacy ...
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