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Author Lewis, Jovan Scott, author

Title Scammer's yard : the crime of black repair in Jamaica / Jovan Scott Lewis
Published Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (236 pages)
Contents Introduction: To Be Poor Is a Crime -- The Planation Remains: A History of Sufferation -- Free Zones: Manipulated Development after Structural Adjustment -- Black Markets: The Color of Crime -- Repairing Blackness: Seizing Reparations through the Scam -- Conclusion: Black Life beyond Repair
Summary "Tells the story of Jamaican "scammers" who use crime to gain autonomy, opportunity, and repair"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 04, 2020)
Subject Swindlers and swindling -- Jamaica
Poor -- Jamaica -- Social conditions
Black people -- Jamaica -- Social conditions
Crime -- Sociological aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Black people -- Social conditions
Crime -- Sociological aspects
Economic history
Poor -- Social conditions
Social conditions
Swindlers and swindling
SUBJECT Jamaica -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Jamaica -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
Subject Jamaica
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020020414
ISBN 9781452964355
1452964351
9781452964362
145296436X
1517909988
9781517909987