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| The Story of the Jamaican People | 
| Authors: Philip Manderson Sherlock, Hazel Bennett
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
Category: Book
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 1,603,472
Media: Paperback
Pages: 434
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.4 x 1.3
ISBN: 1558761462
Dewey Decimal Number: 972.92
EAN: 9781558761469
ASIN: 1558761462
Publication Date: December 1997
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The last general history of Jamaica was published in 1960. Since then the country has become an independent nation and has developed a new sense of national identity out of the experience of 450 years of European colonization, African slavery, and the transplanting of immigrant populations from India, China, Lebanon, and Syria. The Jamaican people have never accepted what was presented to them as the history of Jamaica. The heroes of the British Empire are not their heroes, and their battlefields are in Jamaica, the Caribbean and Afro-America, wherever Afro-American freedom fighters have struggled for liberty. A new interpretation of the Jamaican experience is long overdue. In this book, Sir Philip Sherlock teams up with documentarian Dr. Hazel Bennett to tell the story of the Jamaican people from an Afro-Jamaican rather than a European perspective. Africa is at the center of the story; by claiming Africa as homeland, Jamaicans gain a sense of historical continuity, of identity, of roots-an experience they share with fifty million Afro-Americans throughout the Americas and across four centuries. This is a book for the 1990s and beyond; for the present generation and generations to come; for Jamaicans at home and abroad; and for all Afro-Americans who are descendants of the great diaspora.
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 Beautifully descriptive May 2, 2008
S. Wirth
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I very much appreciate the thoughtful and deliberate way the text invites you into the human experience. There are plenty of histories that detail dates of events and leaders names. This work effectively draws the reader into the people's story in an engaging way.
 So What's Been Going On? March 3, 2001
Brian Siegel (Greenville, SC United States)
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
This book's Jamaican-African perspective seems to run out of steam about the time of Independence (1962). Coverage of the 20th century revolves around Marcus Garvey, Alexander Bustamente, and Norman Manley. The six post-Independence Prime Ministers appear in photos, but only Bustamente is discussed. There is no mention of the 1970s social unrest, nor of the rivalry between Michael Manley and Edward Seaga. Considerable attention is given to athletics and the creative arts, but very little to political economy. "Development," we learn, "is a state of mind" (410), and Jamaica's biggest development problem is not the lack of gainful employment (a view attributed to the Rastas and a group of women writers), but the Eurocentric, colonial system of education (402). This deliberate evasion of any possible controversy and of contemporary history suggests this book was written as a secondary school textbook.
History from the African-Jamaican point of view March 26, 2000
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
In any history the selection of the important points which make up that history will make or break the work. Philip Sherlock and Hazel Bennett have written a work which selects people, places and events from the Afraican-Jamaican point of view rather than from a European point of view. The normal list of government officals and events is either not contained in this work or is played down. At the same time the African-Jamican is showcased. For example, Columbus gets about five pages in this book while Gargey has his own chapter and many additional pages. As the authors point out, this work differs significantly from other histories, most of which have been written from the perspective of the coloniser. The book presents a new perspective on Jamaican history which needs to be read and understood but done so with the other works. Only then will the failues of each type balance out to give the reader a total picture of Jamaican history.
A non-British history of Jamaica. January 6, 2000
Steven Panning, Jamiacan Historical Society
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Sherlock does a lengthy look at Jamaican history from a Jamaican point of view, with a special emphasis and sympathy to the enlsaved majority of Jamaica. Although most of the material in the book is not new, the interpretation is fresh, and from a perspective that has not been heard from often in works dealing with Caribbean history.
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