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).

“The diaries are supplemented by comprehensive footnotes and several fairly short elaborations, and there is a thorough introduction that seeks to position the diaries in their historical and political contexts. … they provide a record of interesting and turbulent times in Jamaica's social and political history … . these diaries tell us much of note about a decolonising and postcolonial society, about the author himself, and about how the two came together at a particular moment in time.” (David Dodman, Bulletin of Latin America Research, Vol. 36 (4), 2017)

• 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