TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thomson, Ian,
TI  - The dead yard: tales of modern Jamaica 
SN  - 9780571227617
AV  - F1887 .T46 2009
U1  - 972.9206 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London
PB  - Faber and Faber
KW  - Moral conditions
KW  - fast
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Travel
KW  - Jamaica
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - 21st century
KW  - History
KW  - 1962-
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-356) and index; (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
N2  - "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
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