Language, Race and the Global Jamaican

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.