@article{937633,
      recid = {937633},
      author = {Devonish, Hubert. and Carpenter, Karen.},
      title = {Language, race and the global Jamaican /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      address = {Cham :},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      year = {2020},
      abstract = {"Devonish and Carpenter lay out a compelling account of  the formation and spread of Jamaican language and culture.  Synthesising the latest scholarship on race with  well-established principles of language change and  diffusion, they present a satisfying answer to the question  of how Jamaican Creole has achieved popularity everywhere  but at home, and the consequences thereof. This work will  be of interest for years to come to all scholars of  Caribbean culture and society."-- Jason F. Siegel,  University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados 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. Hubert Devonish is Professor  Emeritus in the Jamaican Language Unit at the University of  the West Indies, Jamaica. He is the author of Language and  Liberation: Creole Language Politics in the Caribbean  (1986), Talking in Tones: A Study of Tone in Afro-European  Creole Languages (1989) and Talking Rhythm, Stressing Tone:  Prominence in Anglo-West African Creole Languages (2002).  Karen Carpenter is Acting Head of the Institute for Gender  and Development Studies at the University of the West  Indies at Mona and Director of the Caribbean Sexuality  Research Group in Kingston, Jamaica. She is the editor of  Interweaving Tapestries of Culture and Sexuality in the  Caribbean (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and author of  Questioning Jew ish Caribbean Identity (2018).},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/937633},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45},
}