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How to love a Jamaican : stories / by Arthurs, Alexia,author.(CARDINAL)418004; Arthurs, Alexia.Bad behavior.; Arthurs, Alexia.Ghost of Jia Yi.; Arthurs, Alexia.Island.; Arthurs, Alexia.Light-skinned girls and Kelly Rowlands.; Arthurs, Alexia.Mash up love.; Arthurs, Alexia.Mermaid River.; Arthurs, Alexia.On shelf.; Arthurs, Alexia.Shirley from a small place.; Arthurs, Alexia.Slack.; Arthurs, Alexia.We eat our daughters.;
Light-skinned girls and Kelly Rowlands -- Mash up love -- Slack -- Bad behavior -- Island -- Mermaid River -- The ghost of Jia Yi -- How to love a Jamaican -- On shelf -- We eat our daughters -- Shirley from a small place.Sweeping from close-knit island communities to the streets of New York City and midwestern university towns, these eleven stories form a portrait of a nation, a people, and a way of life. In "Light-Skinned Girls and Kelly Rowlands," an NYU student befriends a fellow Jamaican whose privileged West Coast upbringing has blinded her to the hard realities of race. In "Mash Up Love," a twin's chance sighting of his estranged brother--the prodigal son of the family--stirs up unresolved feelings of resentment. In "Bad Behavior," a couple leave their wild teenage daughter with her grandmother in Jamaica, hoping the old ways will straighten her out. In "Mermaid River," a Jamaican teenage boy is reunited with his mother in New York after eight years apart. In "The Ghost of Jia Yi," a recently murdered student haunts a despairing Jamaican athlete recruited to an Iowa college. And in "Shirley from a Small Place," a world-famous pop star retreats to her mother's big new house in Jamaica, which still holds the power to restore something vital.
Subjects: Fiction.; Short stories.; Jamaican Americans; Jamaicans;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 8
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Selected poems / by McKay, Claude,1890-1948.(CARDINAL)141964; Sherman, Joan R.(CARDINAL)193860;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Poetry.; Jamaican Americans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Unbroken:/ the triumphant story of a woman's journey/ by Bailey, Tessaauthor(CARDINAL)617640; Mulfort, C.K.author;
At the age of thirteen, Trisha Bailey migrated to the United States from Jamaica, leaving behind her family, filled with hope and prayers for her future success. While some may perceive her past as dark and traumatic, Trisha Bailey has transformed those experiences into stepping stones towards her own empowerment, fearlessly confronting the obstacles that came her way. In her book, UNBROKEN, she vividly depicts her life in a manner that deeply resonates with readers, immersing them in her captivating story.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Immigrants; Jamaican-Americans; Women;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Bliss / by Zedde, Fiona,author.(CARDINAL)481794;
Subjects: Fiction.; Romance fiction.; Lesbians; Jamaican Americans; African American lesbians; Lesbians.; African American lesbians.; Lesbian fiction.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The passion of Claude McKay; selected poetry and prose, 1912-1948. / by McKay, Claude,1890-1948.(CARDINAL)141964;
Bibliography: pages 349-358.The Radical Estrangement, 1912-1925 -- Early Articles, 1918-1922 -- The Russian Experience, 1922-1923 -- Selected Poems, 1912-1925 -- The Expatriate Years, 1923-1934 -- An Article and Letters, 1925-1932 -- Experiments in Fiction, 1928-1941 -- Looking Forward: The Final Search for Community, 1934-1948 -- Letters and Essays, 1934-1948 -- The Move to Catholicism, 1944-1948.
Subjects: Literature.; Jamaican Americans; African Americans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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If I survive you [large print] / by Escoffery, Jonathan,author.(CARDINAL)863883;
"A major debut, blazing with style and heart, that follows a Jamaican family striving for more in Miami, and introduces a generational storyteller. In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. But America, as the couple and their two children learn, is far from the promised land. Excluded from society as Black immigrants, the family pushes on through Hurricane Andrew and later the 2008 recession, living in a house so cursed that the pet fish launches itself out of its own tank rather than stay. But even as things fall apart, the family remains motivated, often to its own detriment, by what their younger son, Trelawny, calls "the exquisite, racking compulsion to survive." Masterfully constructed with heart and humor, the linked stories in Jonathan Escoffery's If I Survive You center on Trelawny as he struggles to carve out a place for himself amid financial disaster, racism, and flat-out bad luck. After a fight with Topper--himself reckoning with his failures as a parent and his longing for Jamaica--Trelawny claws his way out of homelessness through a series of odd, often hilarious jobs. Meanwhile, his brother, Delano, attempts a disastrous cash grab to get his kids back, and his cousin, Cukie, looks for a father who doesn't want to be found. As each character searches for a foothold, they never forget the profound danger of climbing without a safety net. Pulsing with vibrant lyricism and inimitable style, sly commentary and contagious laughter, Escoffery's debut unravels what it means to be in between homes and cultures in a world at the mercy of capitalism and whiteness. With If I Survive You, Escoffery announces himself as a prodigious storyteller in a class of his own, a chronicler of American life at its most gruesome and hopeful"--
Subjects: Large print books.; Linked stories.; Novels.; Fiction.; Jamaicans; Jamaican Americans;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 9
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Providential : poems / by Channer, Colin,author.(CARDINAL)648929;
Subjects: Poetry.; Jamaican Americans; Authors, Jamaican;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Big tune : rise of the dancehall prince / by Agostini, Alliah L.,author.; Knight-Justice, Shamar,illustrator.(CARDINAL)866103;
Shane, a boy with big dancing dreams, learns the meaning of courage and community.Ages 3-6.Grades K-1.AD500L
Subjects: Fiction.; Picture books.; Stories in rhyme.; Communities; Dance; Jamaican Americans;
Available copies: 27 / Total copies: 29
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Satisfy my soul / by Channer, Colin.(CARDINAL)648929;
Subjects: Fiction.; African American authors.; Jamaican Americans; Jamaicans;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 8
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Waiting in vain / by Channer, Colin.(CARDINAL)648929;
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Jamaicans; Jamaican Americans; Jamaicans;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 7
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