Overview
Examines the connections between race, language and national identity in Jamaica, a majority black nation with complex European-descended institutions and attitudes
Presents case studies on intersectionality of language, race and national identity as evidenced by children, adults, and corporate entities in Jamaica
Explores Jamaica's influence on the wider world, both through its diaspora communities and through the export of its culture and industry
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
Keywords
- creole
- Jamaica
- Caribbean culture
- patois
- self-concept
- national identity
- language and race
- postcolonialism
- language ideology
- Jamaican Language Unit
- Language Attitude Surveys
- Language Competence Survey of Jamaica
- phenotype
- multimodality
- advertising
- cultural production
- intersectionality
- English as a World Language
- media representation
- minority languages
About this book
This book examines the racial and socio-linguistic dynamics of Jamaica, a majority black nation where the dominant ideology continues to look to white countries as models, yet which continues to defy the odds. The authors trace the history of how a nation of less than three million people has come to be at the centre of cultural, racial and linguistic influence globally; producing a culture than has transformed the way that the world listens to music, and a dialect that has formed the lingua franca for a generation of young people. The book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of Caribbean linguistics, Africana studies, diaspora studies, sociology of language and sociolinguistics more broadly.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Hubert Devonish is Professor Emeritus in the Jamaican Language Unit at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. He is the author of Language and Liberation: Creole Language Politics in the Caribbean (1986), Talking in Tones: A Study of Tone in Afro-European Creole Languages (1989) and Talking Rhythm, Stressing Tone: Prominence in Anglo-West African Creole Languages (2002).
Karen Carpenter is Acting Head of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies at Mona and Director of the Caribbean Sexuality Research Group in Kingston, Jamaica. She is the editor of Interweaving Tapestries of Culture and Sexuality in the Caribbean (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and author of Questioning Jewish Caribbean Identity (2018).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Language, Race and the Global Jamaican
Authors: Hubert Devonish, Karen Carpenter
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45748-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45747-1Published: 24 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45750-1Published: 24 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-45748-8Published: 23 June 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 126
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociolinguistics, Multilingualism, Minority Languages, Latin American/Caribbean Literature, Latin American and Caribbean Economics, Developmental Psychology