Small worlds: Childhood and empire

Journal of Family History

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 186-200

  Chamberlain, Mary ^a  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 12344326736     PISSN: 03631990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/036319900202700207     Document Type: Review

References (77)

1. See Stefano Harney, Nationalism and Identity: Culture and the Imagination in a Caribbean Diaspora (London: Zed Books, 1996).
2. Harry Goulbourne and Mary Chamberlain, Living Arrangements, Family Structure and Social Change of Caribbeans in Britain (funded by the Economic and Social Research Council [ESRC], award no. L315253009).
3. Austin Clarke, Growing Up Stupid under the Union Jack.
4. See also Lorna McDaniel, The Big Drum Ritual of Carriacou (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1998).
5. Anthony Giddens, Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age (Cambridge, UK: Polity, 1991).
6. Giddens, Modernity,
7. see also Adriana Cavarero, Relating Narratives (London: Routledge Kegan Paul, 2000);
8. Tess Cosslett, Celia Lury, and Penny Summerfield, eds., Feminism and Autobiography (London: Routledge Kegan Paul, 2000);
9. Ken Plummer, Documents of Life 2 (London: Sage, 2001);
10. Prue Chamberlayne, Joanna Bomat, and Tom Wengraf, The Turn to Biological Methods in Social Science (London: Routledge Kegan Paul, 2000).
11. Marie-Françoise Chanfrault-Duchet, "Textualisation of the Self and Gender Identity in the Life Story," in Cosslett et al., Feminism.
12. See Maurice Halbwachs, On Collective Memory (New York: Harper & Row, 1980).
13. See Plummer, Documents.
14. Cavarera, Relating Narratives.
15. For further discussion, see Mary Chamberlain, "Praise Songs of the Family: Lineage and Kinship in the Caribbean Diaspora," History Workshop Journal 50 (2000): 114-28.
16. Mary Chamberlain, "Praise Songs of the Family: Lineage and Kinship in the Caribbean Diaspora," History Workshop Journal 50 (2000): 114-28. Ibid.
17. See also Mary Chamberlain, "The Global Self: Narratives of Caribbean Migrant Women," in Cosslett et al., Feminism.
18. Cavarera, Relating Narratives, 39.
19. Sidney Mintz, Caribbean Transformations, 1989.
20. See introduction by Edward Braithwaite to Roger Mais, Brother Man (London: Heinemann, 1974).
21. Howard Johnson, "The Forster and Moyne Commissions," in The Trinidad Labour Riots of 1937: Perspectives 50 Years Later, ed. Roy Thomas (St. Augustine: University of the West Indies, 1987).
22. Thomas Simey, Welfare and Planning in the West Indies (Oxford, UK: Clarendon, 1946), 237.
23. Thomas Simey, Welfare and Planning in the West Indies, Ibid., 79.
24. Cited in R. T. Smith, "The Family and the Modern World System: Some Observations from the Caribbean," Journal of Family History 3, no. 4 (1978): 337-60.
25. Great Britain, West India Royal Commission 1945, 217-20, cited in Simey, Welfare.
26. CO298/47, Deputy Registrar's report for Tobago for the year 1890. Papers presented to the Legislative Council of Trinidad, 1891.
27. CO 140/208, appendix to papers of the Legislative Council of Jamaica, 1891.
28. See, for instance, Catherine Hall, "White Visions, Black Lives: The Free Villages of Jamaica," History Workshop Journal 36 (1993).
29. Simey, Welfare, 51.
30. Simey, Welfare, Ibid., 82-83.
31. Simey, Welfare, Ibid., 84.
32. Simey, Welfare, Ibid., 91.
33. Simey, Welfare, Ibid.
34. John Dollard, Caste and Class in a Southern Town (1937).
35. Jamaica Committee (1944), as cited in Simey, Welfare, 17.
36. Report of Sir Frank Stockdale for 1940-1942, para. 267, as quoted in Simey, Welfare, 166.
37. Ibid., 84.
38. TM098/1/A/17.
39. JI028/1/A/5 born 1935.
40. BF069/1/A/18.
41. JK030/2/1/1/9.
42. JK030/2/1/10.
43. JK030/2/1/2/15.
44. See Olive Senior, Working Miracles: Women's Lives in the English Speaking Caribbean (London: James Currey, 1991), 12-18;
45. Sally Gordon, "'I Goto Tanties': The Economic Significance of Childshifting in Antigua, West Indies," Journal of Comparative Family Studies 18, no. 3 (1987): 427-43;
46. Isa Maria Soto, "West Indian Child Fostering: Its Role in Migrant Exchanges," in Caribbean Life in New York City: Sociocitltural Dimensions, ed. Constance Sutton and Elsa Chancy (New York: Center for Migration Studies of New York, 1994).
47. Constance Sutton, Introduction to Virginia Kerns Women and the Ancestors: Black Carib Kinship and Ritual (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997), ix. Kerns's thesis provides a very different perspective on family life and interpretation of the role of women within it.
48. See Barry Higman, Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1976).
49. Mary Chamberlain, Narratives of Exile and Return (Houndsmill, UK: Macmillan, 1997).
50. JK030/2/1/2/11.
51. R. T. Smith, The Negro Family in British Guiana (London: Routledge Kegan Paul, 1956), 157, 164.
52. Hyman Rodman, Lower Class Families: The Culture of Poverty in Negro Trinidad (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1971), 101.
53. Elizabeth Bott, Family and Social Networks (London: Tavistock, 1957).
54. M. Young and P. Wilmott, Family and Kinship in East London (1957).
55. J. Alexander, "The Role of the Male in the Middle Class Jamaican Family: A Comparative Perspective," Journal of Contemporary Family Studies 8, no. 3 (1977): 369-89.
56. Sutton and Chaney, Caribbean Life.
57. Constance Sutton, "'Motherhood Is Powerful': Embodied Knowledge from Evolving Field-Based Experiences," Anthropology and Humanism 23, no. 2 (1998): 143-44.
58. Mary Chamberlain, "The Global Self," in Cosslett et al., Feminism and Autobiography.
59. JH141/1/1/1.
60. Sutton, "Motherhood."
61. JP061/2/1/1/8.
62. JP061/2/1/1/11.
63. Erna Brodber, "Afro-Jamaican Women at the Turn of the Century," Social and Economic Studies 35, no. 3 (1986).
64. BK080/1/A/8. Emphasis added.
65. Ibid.
66. TM098/1/A/9.
67. BK117.
68. JI028/1/A/8.
69. TM098/1/A/13.
70. BK080/2/A/43-44.
71. JI028/1/B/25.
72. TM098/1/A/10.
73. Simey, Welfare, 18.
74. Dollard, Caste and Class. Indeed, this argument neatly reverses responsibility and blame for the low levels of economic wealth and social mobility of African Americans from structural constraints to psychological inhibitors.
75. Mary Chamberlain, "The Family as Model and Metaphor in Caribbean Migration to Britain," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 25, no. 2 (1999): 251-66.
76. Simey, Welfare, 239.
77. A Trinidadian and Grenadian word meaning nosey, prying, scandal mongering; cf. Richard Allsopp, Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1996).