1st Edition
Family Love in the Diaspora Migration and the Anglo-Caribbean Experience
By Mary Chamberlain
Copyright 2006
262 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
260 Pages
by
Routledge
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Colonial social policy in the British West Indies from the nineteenth century onward assumed that black families lacked morals, structure, and men, a void that explained poverty and lack of citizenship. African-Caribbean families appeared as the mirror opposite of the "ideal" family advocated by the white, colonial authorities. Yet contrary to this image, what provided continuity in the period and... Read more
1: Introduction and Perspectives; 1: Families and Oral History; 2: Historical Perspectives on African-Caribbean Families; 2: Narratives of the Family; 3: “Praisesongs” of the Family; 4: Continuities and Change; 5: Transnational Narratives and National Belongings; 3: Families through the Narratives of...; 6: The Wider Household: Grandparents and Other Kin; 7: Small Worlds: Families and Children; 8: Brothers and Sisters, Uncles and Aunts; 4: Comparison and Conclusion; 9: Indo-Caribbean Families in Britain and the Caribbean; 10: Conclusion
Biography
Mary Chamberlain
