Whitehead, T. L. (1984). The buccra-massa and the little man’s broker in a jamaican sugartown: Implications for community health education. Social Science & Medicine, 19(5), 561-572. The consequences of behavioral patterns exhibited by Lc individuals to escape perceived denigration by the Ucs on the design of health service programs are… read more
Parenting, Education, and Well-Being: The Case of Jamaican Men and Women
Harris, M., & Kahn, M. (2005). Parenting, education, and well-being: The case of jamaican men and women. Wadabagei: A Journal of the Caribbean and its Diaspora, 8(3), 34-53. We add to a sparse literature on the well-being of Jamaican adults by examining the relationships between parenthood, education, and psychological distress.… read more
Call and response: how narratives of black queer youth inform popular discourses of the ‘boy crisis’ in education
McCready, L. T. (2012;2011;). Call and response: How narratives of black queer youth inform popular discourses of the ‘boy crisis’ in education. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 16(4), 391-406. The shift in attention to the ‘boy crisis’ has been fueled by a spate of popular trade books dealing with raising… read more
‘Watch mi eyes’: The predicament of visual and scribal literacy choices, as explored with rural Jamaican adolescent boys
Cross, B. (2003). ‘watch mi eyes’: The predicament of visual and scribal literacy choices, as explored with rural jamaican adolescent boys. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 33(1), 65-83. Examines oral cultures in a world of literacy, assessment, and certification. Explores the oral youth culture of adolescent males… read more