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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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  • Christmas Eve
  • Christmas stories; City and town life; Rural life; Interpersonal relations; loss
  • Christmas Eve is usually a time of food, laughter and good cheer, but for some like Connie, there is little cause to celebrate. In the country, she listens to her family’s chatter as they express their wishes for a better new year. Mass Jim talks...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Miracle on a sidewalk
  • Beggars; Integrity
  • A poor beggar desperate for food begs on the sidewalk before a church where the shadow of Christ cast a shadow on him. Like an answer to his prayer for food, someone dropped an envelope with a pound note near him. Considering it a miracle, he takes...
  • 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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  • Still life with Oleanders
  • Family relations; Death ; Childhood and youth
  • Thaddeus, a young boy, mourns the passing of his grandmother as he soon realizes that his life is about to change and those of his adult relatives too who must each work through their own problems brought on by the old lady’s death.
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Storm Warning
  • Hurricanes
  • A hurricane is approaching and already the heavy rains are causing physical destruction and severe hardship for the people. For example, Silver has a terrible toothache and because of the storm he is unable to get to the dentist; Pinkie, desperate...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • The Talisman
  • Love; Man-woman relationship
  • He decided that the wonderful almost mystical bonding between them as lovers had to be broken, and to him fell the unpleasant task. He felt that he had given his all to the affair while to her it was not serious but something she could set aside...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • World's End
  • Death; Loss; Fathers and sons
  • The old man’s world seems to have come to an end with the death of his donkey, his only means of making a living. As he and his son inform the regular customers on his donkey cart route, a few show sympathy but most appear indifferent. Only when he...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Montserrat - undergraduate actors in a scene from the play "One Short of my Quota" in Montserrat.
  • Student activities; College students - Travel - Montserrat; Amateur theater - Caribbean Area, English-speaking;
  • The undergraduates enjoy plays at the Montserrat Grammar School. Dennis Scott and Gervaise Harry were among recurring actors in the plays. This is a scene from the play “One Short of My Quota”.
  • West Indian Journey of a 1961 undergraduate
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  • Montserrat - undergraduates acting in the play "Chippy" .
  • Student activities; College students - Travel - Montserrat; Amateur theater - Caribbean Area, English-speaking; Scott, Dennis; Harry, Gervaise.
  • The undergraduates enjoyed plays at the Montserrat Grammar School. Dennis Scott Left) and Gervaise Harry (right) were among recurring actors in the plays and they are seen together here on stage in the play “Chippy”.
  • West Indian Journey of a 1961 undergraduate
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  • Montserrat - undergraduates acting in the play "Chippy".
  • Student activities; College students -Travel - Montserrat; Amateur theater - Caribbean Area, English-speaking; Scott, Dennis; Harry, Gervaise.
  • The undergraduates enjoyed plays at the Montserrat Grammar School. Dennis Scott and Gervaise Harry were among recurring actors in the plays. Seen in this photo is a fight scene from the play “Chippy”.
  • West Indian Journey of a 1961 undergraduate
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  • Montserrat - undergraduates engaged in a debate.
  • Student activities; College students - Travel - Montserrat; Debates and debating - Montserrat.
  • The undergraduates engaged in a debate at the Montserrat Grammar School.
  • West Indian Journey of a 1961 undergraduate
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  • West Indian Sportsman 1967 Vol. 21 No. 8
  • Sports-Periodicals; Sports-Caribbean Area; Sports-Social aspects; Sports and tourism-Jamaica; Sports sponsorship-Jamaica; Automobiles, racing-Jamaica; school sports-Jamaica; Jamaica Jamboree Golf Tournament (5th : 1968 : Montego Bay, Jamaica);...
  • Sports journal of the Caribbean. It provides news, analysis, commentaries and updates on many sports including cricket, football, tennis and more.
  • West Indian Sportsman
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  • West Indian Sportsman 1970 Vol. 23 No. 6
  • Sports-Periodicals; Sports-Caribbean Area; Sports-Social aspects; Sports-Political aspects-South Africa; World Cup (soccer); Horse racing-Jamaica; Polo-Jamaica; Tennis-Jamaica; Yachting-Jamaica; Bird watching; School sports-Jamaica; Beauty...
  • Sports journal of the Caribbean. It provides news, analysis, commentaries and updates on many sports including cricket, football, tennis and more.
  • West Indian Sportsman
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  • West Indian Sportsman 1975 Vol, 27 No. 4
  • Sports-Periodicals; Sports-Caribbean Area; Sports-Social aspects;Ali, Muhammad, 1942-2016; Boxers (Sports)-United States; Cricket; National Dragon Club Championship (1974 : Kingston, Jamaica); Royal Jamaica Yatch Club-Jamaica; Horse racing-History;...
  • Sports journal of the Caribbean. It provides news, analysis, commentaries and updates on many sports including cricket, football, tennis and more.
  • West Indian Sportsman
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  • West Indian Sportsman 1960 Vol.15 no. 8
  • Sports-Periodicals; Sports-Caribbean Area; Sports-Social aspects; Cricket-Political aspects-Caribbean Area; Cricket-Australia; Cricket-Great Britain, Cricket-New Zealand; Cricket-West Indies; Horse racing-Political aspects-Jamaica; Field hockey;...
  • Sports journal of the Caribbean. It provides news, analysis, commentaries and updates on many sports including cricket, football, tennis and more.
  • West Indian Sportsman
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  • West Indian Sportsman 1964 Vol. 20 no. 7
  • Sports-Periodicals; Sports-Caribbean Area; Sports-Social aspects; Yatching-Jamaica; Golf players-Jamaica; Golf-Tournaments; Upland game bird shooting-Jamaica; School sports-Jamaica; Swimming-Competitions-Jamaica; Soccer-Tournaments; Soccer-Social...
  • Sports journal of the Caribbean. It provides news, analysis, commentaries and updates on many sports including cricket, football, tennis and more.
  • West Indian Sportsman

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