1. Capitalism, Socialism and Technology
   A Comparative Study of Cuba and Jamaica
   Resource Type: Book
   Does a socialist Third World country tackle technological development and mechanization in different ways from a capitalist country? In this meticulous field study of sugar cane harvesting in two leading producer countries - Cuba and Jamaica - Dr. Edquist finds that the causes and consequences of technical change differ significantly. He advances original ideas as to the relationship between technology and socio-economic conditions.
2. Embassy Row Online
   Resource Type: Website
   Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
3. Jamaica's Culture of Fear Allows Police to Get Away With Murder
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2016
   In the past decade, the Caribbean island nation's police have killed more than 2,000 people - until recently an average of four people every single week, mostly young men in inner-city, marginalized communities.
4. Killing Hope 
   U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2008
   Is the United States a force for democracy? William Blum serves up a forensic overview of U.S. foreign policy spanning sixty years. For those who want the details on the U.S.'s most famous actions (Chile, Cuba, Vietnam, to name a few), and for those who want to learn about lesser-known efforts (France, China, Bolivia, Brazil, for example), this book provides a window on what U.S. foreign policy goals really are. "If you flip over the rock of American foreign policy of the past century, this is what crawls out… invasions … bombings … overthrowing governments … occupations … suppressing movements for social change … assassinating political leaders … perverting elections … manipulating labor unions … manufacturing “news” … death squads … torture … biological warfare … depleted uranium … drug trafficking … mercenaries … It’s not a pretty picture. It’s enough to give imperialism a bad name."
5. Overthrowing other people's governments: The Master List 
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2013
   Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War.
6. Rasta and Resistance
   From Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney
   Resource Type: Book
   Rasta and Resistance is a study of the Rastafarian Movement in all its aspects, from its evolution in the hills of Jamaica to its present manifestations in the streets of Birmingham and the Shashamane Settlement in Ethiopia. It traces the cultural, political, and spiritual sources of this movement, highlighting the quest for change among an oppressed people. This book serves to break the intellectual traditions which placed the stamp of millenarianism on Rasta.
7. Remembering Michael Manley
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1997
   Manley, who had entered the decade of the Seventies with so much hope for changing Jamaica, departed bitterly at the end of it.
8. The Slave Trade
   The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440 - 1870
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1997
   A comprehensive history of the Atlantic slave trade in which approximiately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses.
   
9. Small Garden, Bitter Weed
   Struggle and Change in Jamaica
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1981
   This is a social history of the Jamaican people - from the time of the European invasion to the present day. It is a history of struggle and change. Written in the run-up to the 1981 elections which led to the defeat of the Manley government, this revised and extended version now analyzes the consequences of that defeat for the people of Jamaica.
10. The Targeting of Walter Rodney
    Against The Current vol. 120
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    On October 15, 1968 the government of Jamaica barred Walter Rodney from returning to the island. A lecturer at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Rodney had been out of the country attending a Black Power conference in Canada. The Guyanese-born Rodney was no stranger to Jamaica, having graduated from UWI in 1963. He returned to his alma mater as a faculty member at the beginning of 1968, after doing graduate studies in England and working briefly in Tanzania.

Experts on Jamaika in the Sources Directory

1. African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States
2. Association of Caribbean States
3. Caribbean Community
4. Latin American Economic System
5. Organization of American States
6. United Nations