Dead Woman Pickney serves as an interesting record of a key period in Jamaican society as a rigid color hierarchy began to make way reluctantly for the working poor coming up through the educational system, one which, as Shorter Brown argues, was not then seen “as a lever of social mobility for the working-class children who atended but only as a means of increasing their abilities as prospective farm and domestic labour” (p. 92).

The African-Caribbean Worldview and the Making of Caribbean Society (2009) is Horace Levy’s ambitious atempt to give space, play and agency to an often subjugated African diaspora subject. Pulling together contributions from scholars from a variety of fields, the work atempts to document and problematize from multiple perspectives the non-material drivers of African oppression and resistance in the Caribbean.