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THE EDITOR, Madam: The cut-and-paste copy of the British unwritten constitution for Jamaica to accept is a paradise for the uninformed and a mockingbird for head of state. The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament by...
“No one sound speaks for all” Jamaicans, the novelist Marlon James says. Here are the books he recommends for readers who want to see the island’s many facets.
New research delivers surprising findings about Indigenous people in the region before contact with Europeans. By David Reich and Orlando Patterson Dr. Reich is a geneticist at Harvard who specializes in the study of ancient DNA. Dr. Patterson is a sociologist at Harvard with expertise in the Caribbean. Dec. 23, 2020 Scientists now have data concerning the entire genomes of more than 260 people of the ancient Caribbean.Credit...Kayana Szymczak for The New York Times In 1492, Christopher Columbus touched land for the first time in the Americas, reaching the Bahamas, Hispaniola (present-day Dom...
As the global pandemic continues—more acute, and more egregiously mishandled, in some locations than others—I can only say that I am experiencing a profound exhaustion, and I imagine many of sx salon’s readers are as well. It is beyond me to behave in a business-as-usual manner even for the duration of this introduction, and I am not going to try. Instead I will invite you, our readers, to consider whether all the forces—political cynicism, a profit-over-people orientation, scientific illiteracy and denialism, individualism run amok, and white supremacy—that underpin catastrophica...