Language, Race and the Global Jamaican

By Hubert Devonish and Karen Carpenter

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030457508
• ISBN13: 9783030457501
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"