This essay examines the making of the postcolonial divide between the two
Kingstons with emphasis on the habits and dispositions of the city’s less
frequently studied Uptown elites. The paper briefly reviews Kingston’s
twentieth-century demographic and geographic expansion; calls attention
to a two-tiered system of institutions and services created to accompany
this expansion; and underscores patterns of diminished social contact and
interaction across the class divide consequent on the establishment of these