JamaicaJamaica's social inequality is primarily held to be class-based due, in part, to the country's perceived ethno-racial homogeneity and to the particularities of its colonial past. However, whether "race"
Recently, Rebecca Traister discussed just how much rape culture even informs what we think of as “good sex” in her piece “The Game is Rigged: Why Consensual Sex Can Still be Bad.” In it, Traister challenges the notion that all consensual sex is good and shows just how messy the de...
Most articles reported on populations in Cuba, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico (n = 4 for each). Figure 2 summarizes the inequality relationships reported in the included articles. There were 24 inequality relationships reported: 18 on prostate cancer frequency and 6 on prostate cancer out- comes. ...
TAFARI-AMA I., 2006, Blood Bullets and Bodies: Sexual Politics below Jamaica's Poverty Line. USA: Multi-Media Communications. TERBORG-PENN R., 1995, 'Through an African feminist theoretical lens: viewing Caribbean women's history cross-culturally', in V. Shepherd and B. Brereton, eds, ...
High HDI: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Jamaica, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru. Medium HDI: El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Years of education are the average number of years of schooling for respondents in each region within the respective countries. Wealth index is ...
The SDGs aim to eradicate all types of poverty and inequality worldwide by 2030. The question is whether or not the unemployment rates in developing countries decrease as their local banking systems develop. What is the goal, exactly? Some people have thought about how finance functions in the...
On 28 July 1993 three officers from Britain’s Aliens Deportation Group (ADG) arrived at the north London flat of Joy Gardner to deport her. Gardner had been born in Jamaica, but had come to Britain six years earlier. Her mother, Myrna Simpson, had lived in Britain for more than 33 yea...
During the summer, one neighbor sold duros, juices frozen in plastic cups, with flavors like tamarindo, ginger-infused jamaica, and, my favorite, coco, made with fresh coconut milk and shredded coconut, sweetened with cinnamon and nutmeg. If someone had a party, we all partied and feasted ...
The same is often true for many social epidemics, for example in Jamaica, criminal violence has roots in poverty and urban decay, political patronage, and more recently organized crime (McDavid et al., 2011). Power relations includes an individual’s ability to have an effect on other ...
It is well known that children of immigrants experience inequality. Less is known about how inequalities compare across multiple life domains and multiple generations. We conduct a case study of England and Wales, focussing on children of Caribbean immig