Race/class : Jamaica's discourse of heritable identity

Argues that Jamaican notions of 'race' and 'class' can be rendered as a discourse of heritable biological and environmental identity. There has been a movement in the meaning of colour categories from an emphasis on biology, to a greater emphasis on environment. This transition h...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Diane J. Austin-Broos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BRILL 1994-07-01
Series:NWIG
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Online Access:http://www.kitlv-journals.nl/index.php/nwig/article/view/3287