Gray, Obika.

Demeaned but Empowered : The Social Power of the Urban Poor of Jamaica. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (442 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1 Rethinking Power -- 2 A Fateful Alliance -- 3 Fulcrums of Power in the Ghetto -- 4 Exilic Space, Moral Culture and Social Identity in the Ghetto -- 5 Badness-Honour and the Invigorated Authority of the Urban Poor -- 6 A Fettered Freedom -- 7 Crime, Politics and Moral Culture -- 8 The Struggle for Benefits -- 9 Uncaptured Rebels -- 10 Criminal Self-Organization and Cultural Extremism -- 11 The Cultural Contradictions of Power -- The Ordeal of Social Reconstruction in Jamaica -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

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Urban poor--Jamaica--Political activity.


Electronic books.

HV4063.A5 -- G73 2004eb

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