NOTES
- Brian Meeks, “Cuba One”, in New Poets from Jamaica, ed. Edward Brathwaite (Kingston: Savacou Publishers, 1979), 58–59.
- See Richard Hart, The End of Empire: Transition to Independence in Jamaica and other Caribbean Region Colonies (Kingston: Arawak Publications, 2006), 335.
- See Francisco Morales Padrón, Spanish Jamaica (Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, 2003).
- See Olive Senior, The Encyclopedia of Jamaican Heritage (Kingston: Twin Guinep, 2003), 295–96.
- Ibid., 488.
- See Anthony Bogues and Brian Meeks, “A Caribbean Life: An Interview with Lloyd Best”, in The Thought of New World: The Quest for Decolonisation, ed. Brian Meeks and Norman Girvan (Kingston and Miami: Ian Randle Publishers, 2010), 307.
- See for instance, Carlos Malcolm and His Afro-Jamaican Rhythms, Ska-Mania: The Sound of the Soil (Up-Beat, 1962).
- Daily Gleaner, 7 April 1960.
- For differing perspectives on Henry's movement, see Anthony Bogues, Black Heretics, Black Prophets: Radical Political Intellectuals (London: Routledge, 2003), 153–85; Brian Meeks, Narratives of Resistance: Jamaica, Trinidad, the Caribbean (Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2000), 25–47; Barrington Chevannes, “The Repairer of the Breach: Reverend Claudius Henry and Jamaican Society”, in Ethnicity in the Americas, ed. Frances Henry (The Hague: Mouton Publishers, 1976), 263–89.
- See the Skatalites, Foundation Ska (Studio One, originally released 1964–65, re-released 1997).
- Michael Thelwell, The Harder They Come (New York: Grove Press, 1980), 377.
- Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Corina Achong was the first female Island Scholarship winner from that country. She met her future husband Charlie Meeks at McGill University in Montreal and later moved back to Jamaica with him, where she worked for the rest of her life between the government information system and private-sector public relations. Following her tenure as Manley's assistant, she was appointed as the Director of the Agency for Public Information (API), resigning from that post after the PNP defeat in the 1980 general election.
- See Associated Press, “Cuba Enjoys Warm Ties with Caribbean Nations”, 9 August 2006, www.msn.com; Robert Huish and John M. Kirk, “Cuban Medical Internationalism and the Development of the Latin American School of Medicine”, Latin American Perspectives 34, no. 6 (2007): 77.
- Michael Manley, Struggle in the Periphery (London: Writers and Readers, 1982), III.
- Ibid., 112–13.
- Ibid., especially 97–115.
- See Kevin O'Brien Chang and Wayne Chen, Reggae Routes: The Story of Jamaican Music (Temple University Press, 1998), 53.
- See Carl Stone, The Political Opinions of the Jamaican People (1976–1981) (Kingston: Blackett Publishers, 1982), 49.
- Ibid., 49.
- Daily Gleaner, 17 March 1997.
- Oxford Dictionaries Online defines ‘facety’ as “rude, arrogant, or excessively bold” (http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/facety [accessed 1 November 2011]). This captures in part a Jamaican adjective that also needs to be connected to a history of sharp social, racial and colour disparities and the use of ‘facetyness’ as a means of reclaiming a modicum of self-respect and as a hidden text of resistance.
- See David Scott, Refashioning Futures: Criticism after Postcoloniality (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1999), 208–20.
- See Michel Foucault, The Care of the Self The History of Sexuality, vol. 3 (London: Penguin Books, 1984).
- This is the cleverly tweaked Jamaican interpretation of ‘masses’ to denote not just numbers, but heft and weight.