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Lisa Outar

“Just Another Bastard of Empire” A Review of Dead Woman Pickney: A Memoir of Childhood in Jamaica, by Yvonne Shorter Brown

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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).

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