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Location	Call #	Volume	Status
Sherman Library	HV4063.A5 G72 2004		AVAILABLE

Author	Gray, Obika, 1948-
Title	Demeaned but empowered : the social power of the urban poor in Jamaica / Obika Gray.
OCLC	55650836
ISBN	9766401535
Publisher	Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2004.
Description	xi, 429 ; 23 cm
LC Subject heading/s	Urban poor -- Jamaica -- Political activity.
	Patronage, Political -- Jamaica.
	Community power -- Jamaica.
	Crime -- Jamaica.
	Jamaica -- Social conditions.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-411) and index.
Contents	Rethinking power : political clientelism and political subordination in Jamaica -- A fateful alliance -- Fulcrums of power in the ghetto -- Exile, space, moral culture and social identity in the ghetto -- Badness-honour and the invigorated authority of the urban poor -- A fettered freedom : warfare and solidarity in the ghetto -- Crime, politics and moral culture -- The struggle for benefits -- Uncaptured rebels -- Criminal self-organization and cultural extremism -- The cultural contradictions of power : badness-honour and liberal democracy -- Epilogue: The ordeal of social reconstruction in Jamaica.

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