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  • Learning to Blow the Abeng: A Critical Look at Anti-establishment Movements of the 1960s and 1970s
  • Blacks-Race identity-Caribbean Area; Black power-West Indies-History; Caribbean Area-Race relations; Caribbean Area-Politics and government; Rastafarian movement; Workers Party of Jamaica; People's National Party (Jamaica)
  • An examination of the movements in the 1960s and 1970s concerned with eliminating the legacies of racial, economic and class oppression from the colonial experience that continued after political independence.
  • Rupert Lewis Collection
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  • Pan-Africanism — Ethical Challenges
  • Pan-Africanism; Haiti-Politics and government; Grenada-Politics and government; South Africa-Politics and government; Jamaica-Social conditions; South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission-History; Truth commissions-Haiti; Truth...
  • This paper features individuals who have been champions of Pan-Africanism and black power empowerment. It looks briefly at the political crisis in Haiti, Grenada, and South Africa and crime and violence in Jamaica. It also examines the factors that...
  • Rupert Lewis Collection
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  • A Little cloud in the sky
  • Jamaica ; Nationalism
  • After a lecture the students gather to discuss philosophy and the need for a Jamaican university that would teach students how to think, furnish them with a background of education and culture, and increase access to tertiary education.
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • A Ladder to the stars
  • Political fiction ; Jamaica - Politics and government
  • Blake, Barlow, Osgood and company discuss the pros and the cons of self-government for Jamaica and the country’s readiness to take that path. Central to this concept is the establishment of a university which Barlow finds exciting as he gazes at...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Hot water
  • City and urban life; Interpersonal relations
  • A variety of scenes from city life: a vagrant arrested for loitering sentenced in court the next day; three mischievous boys playing on the beach; a man courting a somewhat reluctant nursemaid; an attempted blackmail that goes awry; a pregnant...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Trinidad and Tobago - undergraduates at Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture (ICTA).
  • Student activities; College students - Travel - Trinidad and Tobago; Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture (Trinidad).
  • While in Trinidad, the undergraduates visited the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture (ICTA) campus. The ICTA was a forerunner to the University of the West Indies; established in 1921 in Trinidad and Tobago. It was incorporated into the...
  • West Indian Journey of a 1961 undergraduate

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