Abstract
Public Secrets: Race and Colour in Colonial and Independent Jamaica, by Henrice Altink
Highlights
Henrice Altink takes on an enduring paradox at the core of Jamaican society: the fact that distinctions of “race” and color exert powerful influence across much of the twentieth century even as they are resolutely denied
Public Secrets assembles copious evidence demonstrating the presence and disadvantageous effects of these coexisting ideological truths hiding in plain view in this majority-Black society, and deftly unmasks the rhetorical dodges and suppressive measures by which Jamaicans participate in displacing them
Altink sifts through evidence from an impressive array of sources, including Jamaican census data and other socioeconomic survey material collected by local and international agencies, newspaper reports, social scientific studies, interviews, memoirs, novels, nonfiction essays, and blogposts
Summary
Henrice Altink takes on an enduring paradox at the core of Jamaican society: the fact that distinctions of “race” and color exert powerful influence across much of the twentieth century even as they are resolutely denied.
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