Language, Race and the Global Jamaican
Author | : Hubert Devonish |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2020-07-18 |
ISBN-10 | : 3030457478 |
ISBN-13 | : 9783030457471 |
Rating | : 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: This book examines the racial and socio-linguistic dynamics of Jamaica, a majority black nation where the dominant ideology continues to look to white countries as models, yet which continues to defy the odds. The authors trace the history of how a nation of less than three million people has come to be at the centre of cultural, racial and linguistic influence globally; producing a culture than has transformed the way that the world listens to music, and a dialect that has formed the lingua franca for a generation of young people. The book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of Caribbean linguistics, Africana studies, diaspora studies, sociology of language and sociolinguistics more broadly.