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Colonial Capital Theory at Work: The Case of Jamaica

Colonial Capital Theory at Work: The Case of Jamaica

Miller, O. Alexander

Hardcover

General SociologyPoverty & Social WorkSocial Movements

ISBN10: 073917049X
ISBN13: 9780739170496
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Nov 26 2013
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Colonial Capital Theory at Work: The Case of Jamaica contributes to our understanding of the emerging Caribbean and explains how some have intentionally used sociological imagination, or the links between history and biography, to achieve prosperity. O. Alexander Miller examines how potential immigrants from the Caribbean employ sociological imagination and, by so doing, achieve sustained intergenerational financial prosperity even while living in relatively poor home societies. The book focuses on Jamaicans because they are one of the largest groups of black Caribbean immigrants in the United States and England. Furthermore, their home society illustrates how well sociological imagination works for those who employ it, even in a post-colonial society where there are historical disparities between the socially approved goals of society and the structural means for reaching those goals.

Colonial Capital Theory at Work is written not only for scholars in sociology, migration studies and Caribbean studies, but also for members of immigrant communities, especially of African ancestry.

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