Race, Class, and the Politics of Decolonization

Colin Clarke is an Emeritus Professor at Oxford University and an Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, UK. He is a Caribbeanist and his research interests are in race, ethnicity, and class in urban and rural communities and national contexts. His most recent publications include Decolonizing the Colonial City: Urbanization and Stratification in Kingston, Jamaica (2006) and, with Gillian Clarke, Post-Colonial Trinidad: An Ethnographic Journal (2010).

• Introduction PART I: JAMAICA JOURNAL 1961 1. Jamaica: a British Colony on the Eve of Independence 2. Kingston and Rural Jamaica 3. The Ras Tafari Movement, Marxism and Race 4. Race, Class and the Referendum PART II: JAMAICA JOURNAL 1968 5. Sovereign Jamaica: Post-Colonialism as Neocolonialism

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