Public SecretsPub Date : 2019-10-08DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvqmp42b.7
H. Altink
{"title":"Race at Work","authors":"H. Altink","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvqmp42b.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvqmp42b.7","url":null,"abstract":"Making extensive use of census data, this chapter sets out changes over time in the race and colour profile of the labour market. It shows that dark-skinned Jamaicans made considerable advances, especially in the public sector, but that even long after independence they were still largely absent from some fields and in others rarely found at senior levels. It will be argued that the stratification of the labour market by colour was largely the result of race-neutral practices, such as educational qualifications and other hiring and promotion criteria; disadvantage accumulated over time and across racial domains; and government inaction, which was partly triggered by political partisanship and economic factors.","PeriodicalId":366360,"journal":{"name":"Public Secrets","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117203476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Public SecretsPub Date : 2019-10-08DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvqmp42b.11
H. Altink
{"title":"The Silence and Salience of Race","authors":"H. Altink","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvqmp42b.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvqmp42b.11","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing amongst others upon social media and NGO reports, this chapter first of all challenges the enduring myth of racial harmony by showing the salience of colour in contemporary Jamaica, while also highlighting that the power of race and colour has continued to be denied and minimised. It then moves on to explain why Jamaican society has remained stratified along race and colour lines from 1918 till the present, and why this fact has been largely silenced. And it finishes, by offering some suggestions how existing racial disparities can be reduced, ranging from measuring and publishing them to interventions in specific or across racial domains, such as education or the labour market.","PeriodicalId":366360,"journal":{"name":"Public Secrets","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114156427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Public SecretsPub Date : 2019-10-08DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvqmp42b.9
H. Altink
{"title":"Race in Everyday Life","authors":"H. Altink","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvqmp42b.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvqmp42b.9","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores the power of race and colour in everyday life. Relying heavily on contemporary anthropological and sociological studies, it first of all explores the socialisation of Jamaican children into the meanings of race and the rule not to talk about race. It then moves on to assess how as grown-ups, they navigated race and colour in the private sphere of the home and in hotels, churches and other semi-private spheres. And finally, through an examination of several racial incidents – events that sparked an island-wide discussion about race – , it explores how those socialised into the rule not to talk about race, talked about race. In doing so, the chapter conveys the coexistence of colour consciousness and colour blindness.","PeriodicalId":366360,"journal":{"name":"Public Secrets","volume":"3 15","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113946365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Public SecretsPub Date : 2019-10-08DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvqmp42b.8
H. Altink
{"title":"‘Equality of Opportunity for all Children’","authors":"H. Altink","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvqmp42b.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvqmp42b.8","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter assess how easy it was for dark-skinned Jamaica children to get into a prestigious secondary school having to overcome such hurdles as entry examinations and oral interviews. By drawing, amongst others, on school magazines and memoirs, it will also explore how race and colour shaped the experiences of the children that succeeded in gaining access to an elite secondary school, ranging from the relations with their teachers and peers to the curriculum they were taught. In addition, it will point to the ways in which lower-class African Jamaicans helped to uphold the class-colour hierarchy, showing that many lower-class parents valued the elite secondary schools over other types of secondary education, often making huge sacrifices to get their children accepted.","PeriodicalId":366360,"journal":{"name":"Public Secrets","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130094395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Public SecretsPub Date : 2019-10-08DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvqmp42b.10
H. Altink
{"title":"Commitment to Colour-Blindness","authors":"H. Altink","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvqmp42b.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvqmp42b.10","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter zooms in on colour blindness. Focussing on the racial domains of politics and criminal justice, it explores the correlation between race and colour and the enjoyment of civil and political rights. It argues that it was not just government inaction but also a lack of collective action from race-first and other groups why dark-skinned Jamaicans struggled more than others to exercise their civil and political rights. But while successive governments lacked the commitment to create a society where all Jamaicans irrespective of race and colour could enjoy their ‘fundamental rights’, they did their best to present Jamaica as a colour-blind nation. This chapter will also explore the purposes of this myth of racial harmony that was developed after the Second World War.","PeriodicalId":366360,"journal":{"name":"Public Secrets","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129881579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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