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Rough Riding

Tanya Stephens and the Power of Music to Transform Society

Edited by Adwoa Ntozake Onuora, Anna Kasafi Perkins and Ajamu Nangwaya

Rough Riding: Tanya Stephens and the Power of Music to Transform Society is a groundbreaking collection of articles that explore the contribution of the cultural worker, feminist organic intellectual, and controversial reggae and dancehall artiste Tanya Stephens. An accomplished lyricist on par with the genre’s celebrated male performers, Stephens has been producing socially conscious and transformative music that is associated with revolutionary reggae music of the 1970s and 1980s. The contributors to this anthology – a diverse group of scholars, activists and reggae professionals – explore the range of ideas and issues raised in Stephens’s extensive body of work and examine the important role cultural workers play in inspiring shifts in consciousness and, ultimately, the social order.

Masculinity and Fathering in Jamaica

by Patricia Anderson

Why do many Jamaican men acknowledge the importance of love, but also believe that men have the right to physically discipline their partners? How far does fathering become a journey of personal self-development? What happens to “outside children” when the father also has children at home? Why do fathers believe that they must toughen their sons? These are some of the questions which are carefully explored in this groundbreaking study of Jamaican fathers. The study departs from the tradition of Caribbean family research in which the focus has usually been placed on women and on households and instead gives men the opportunity to speak for themselves. Unlike the familiar emphasis on low-income households, this new study interviewed men across a range of social classes and within different community contexts. As a result, the impact of harsh economic conditions is unmistakable in limiting the ability of Jamaican men to translate their fathering commitment into active and continuing involvement.

Interviewing the Caribbean
Volume 6 Issue 1
Special issue in honour of Kamau Brathwaite
Edited by Professor Opal Palmer Adisa

Featuring:

Sean by Kamau Brathwaite
Eric by Kamau Brathwaite
Foreword by Prime Minister Mottley
Words are Nails and the Poet Kamau Brathwaite is the Hammer by Professor Opal Palmer Adisa
Haiku for KamauE. Ethelbert Miller

and so much more.

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