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'This is a significant book on an important and under-researched topic, which has been especially neglected by historians. Altink tackles the `public secret' of race in twentieth-century Jamaica, paying particular attention to `shadism'. The book is grounded in a strong grasp of sociological and anthropological theorisations of how race works in societies that disavow its importance.' Diana Paton, University of Edinburgh Reviews `This is a very important and useful contribution to the literature on race in the Caribbean, through a focus on the question of questions of color in 20th century Jamaica. There is a layered and subtle approach to thinking through the various ways in which society and economy are shaped in complex and often obfuscated ways by distinctions and discriminations around color.' Laurent Dubois, Duke University

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Henrice Altink is a Professor of Modern History and Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre at the University of York.

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