Don Dada
Assessing the Socio-economic and Political Power of Jamaica’s Mafia Bosses
by Damion Keith Blake

With revelatory insight, Don Dada explores the major roles dons play in their communities and how the activities of these non-state criminal actors have influenced the governance process. Focussing on communities in the downtown metropolitan area of Kingston, the capital city, the book investigates the evolution of the don from the 1960s to the present and their roles of security/protection, social welfare, partisan mobilization, and law and order. Blake contends that dons have emerged as embedded governing authorities in Jamaican garrisons based on the socio-economic and political roles they carry out and puts forward a peace-building model to dissolve the power of dons and their gangs in Jamaica’s marginal communities.

Politics in an Island State
Wills O. Isaacs and Jamaica’s Struggle for Development
by Diane Austin-Broos 

Jamaica is most well-known for its popular culture, crime and violence. Government, the state, is viewed as a malign force. In Politics in an Island State noted anthropologist Diane Austin-Broos brings an alternative view of Jamaica, its culture and governance. This history of Jamaica, and more pointedly, the history of politics in Jamaica, is brilliantly told through the biography of Wills O. Isaacs. Never the leader of his party – the People’s National Party – Wills was active in politics from the 1930s and was nonetheless a prominent and notorious figure.

Transferring Professional Learning to Schools in a Caribbean Setting
Context and Culture Matter
by Freddy James, Susan Herbert and Jennifer Yamin-Ali

Transferring Professional Learning addresses the factors that facilitate and inhibit participants from sustainably implementing what they have learnt on a professional preparation programme. The series of cases presented in the book connect readers with real-life stories of individuals whose experiences provide opportunities for reflection on their own practice and pathways for growth individually and collectively.

Journal of Caribbean History
Volume 57 Issue 2
Editor: Professor Kathleen E. A. Monteith

Featuring:

• Intricacies and Issues in Interweaving Public Records to Illuminate the Enslaved Community at Papine Estate, Jamaica in the Early 1800s by Suzanne Francis-Brown
• Sustenance and Power: Provision Grounds and Plantation Enterprise in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Jamaican Slavery by Nicholas Crawford
• John Garrigus, A Secret among the Blacks Dexnell Peters

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Caribbean Quarterly Volume 69 Issue 1

Remembering

Editor: Kim Robinson-Walcott, PhD

Featuring:

• The Cunny Louise Bennett: Values and Craft by Mervyn Morris
• Praise Song for Rohlehr: A Compilation of Tributes by Paula Morgan
• “If You Don’t Make Money, Then You Don’t Make Sense”: Representing Legacies of Wealth in Recent Jamaican Dancehall Music by Nicole A. Plummer and Erin C. MacLeod

and much more.