Thomson, Ian,  1961- <br/><br/>
The dead yard :  tales of modern Jamaica / 
Ian Thomson. 
 - London :  Faber and Faber,  2009. 
 - xiii, 370 pages ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-356) and index. 
<br/><br/> (Black man) in Hammersmith Palais --  Trench town mix up --  Strictly come dancehall --  Slaving --  Massa day done? --  I've got to go back home --  Forward unto Zion --  Maximum black --  Stranded on death row --  The Negotiator --  Blood and fire --  Revival time --  Don't call us immigrants --  English upbringing, background Caribbean --  Everything crash --  Nanny knew best --  The Killing of a Chinese shopkeeper --  007 (Shanty Town) --  Sitting in limbo --  Police and thieves --  Night nurse --  Scotland Yard --  Herbsman hustle --  Investors in people ('Cargo') --  Lord creator --  Life of contradiction. 
<br/><br/> "Jamaica used to the source of much of Britain's wealth, an island where slaves grew sugar and the money flowed out in vast quantities. It was a tropical paradise for the planters, a Babylonian exile for the Africans shipped to the Caribbean. Since independence in 1962, it has gradually become associated with a new kind of hell, a society where extreme violence has become ordinary and gangs control the areas where most Jamaicans live. Ian Thomson's brave new book explores a country of lost promise, a country that most older Jamaicans in Britain cannot recognise as their own. Once a beacon of optimistic third world politics, the island is now sunk in corruption, hopelessness and drug wars. Jamaica's music was once the lilting anthem of idealists everywhere; now it is a repetitive glorification of homophobia and violence"--Global Books in Print. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780571227617 0571227619 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009377720 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA918451  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>014910138  Uk 014-91013  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>Since 1962 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Moral conditions.<br/>Politics and government.<br/>Social conditions.<br/>Travel.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Jamaica--Description and travel.<br/>Jamaica--Social conditions--21st century.<br/>Jamaica--Moral conditions.<br/>Jamaica--History--1962-<br/>Jamaica--Politics and government--1962-<br/>Jamaica.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Jamaica  Description and travel 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F1887  / .T46 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>972.9206