Dear colleagues,
See below.
All the best,
Pat
Dr Patricia Noxolo,
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences,
University of Birmingham,
Edgbaston,
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK
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Sent: 07 September 2018 21:04
To: Patricia Noxolo (Geography)
Subject: Re: Advice on Windrush
Yes please. I just think that the real story of Jamaica’s bauxite and
crude imperialism has not been told.
Thom
On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 at 16:10, Patricia Noxolo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Dear Thom,
>
> Thanks for this. I'm afraid it really isn't my area, but if you want I can send your question around the Caribbean Studies list to see if anyone else is interested or has the information?
>
> All the best,
> Pat
>
> Dr Patricia Noxolo,
>
> Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
>
> School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences,
>
> University of Birmingham,
>
> Edgbaston,
>
> Birmingham
>
> B15 2TT
>
> UK
>
> ________________________________________
> From: [log in to unmask] [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 30 August 2018 16:27
> To: Patricia Noxolo (Geography)
> Subject: Advice on Windrush
>
> Dr Pat Noxolo
> I am enclosing an draft of a (journalistic) article I am planning on
> the role of the bauxite industry in the wider Windrush/ Jamaican
> emigration story.
> I write you seeking advice on finding a source for identifying the
> geography of the Jamaican population who migrated to UK between
> 1948-68. Did the migrants come from bauxIte land? (I am also hoping
> that you might find a grauate student who might be interested in
> developing a study of the critical relationship between the impact
> of the bauxite industry on rural Jamaica and migration.) I have too
> many years behind me to complete work I originally started in the
> 1970s in Jamaica.
> But it is an important yet under researched aspect of the migration
> story. One third of the large parish of Manchester was “acquired” by
> the bauxite industry. Reynolds having extracted the bauxite held onto
> the land producing cattle ranch style thus decimating small holding
> farmers beef production. Many of whom then sold out producing a vast
> (50-80,000) landless peasantry.
> Are you aware of any recent research on bauxite in Jamaica? I know
> of early work
> Persaud, Conflicts Between Multinational Corporations and Less
> Developed Countries, .
> Austin, “Jamaican Bauxite: A Case Study in Multi-National Investment,” 53.
> Mark Figueroa, Class Issues in Industrialization Policy: Lewis’s
> Ideas and the Case of Jamaica 1945-1956, (Department of Economics,
> University of Salford, 1991) 7.
> and the very useful
> MONICA SILBERBERG | THE JAMAICAN BAUXITE INDUSTRY & DECOLONIZATION .
>
> If you have time I’d welcome a word or two. Thanks
> Thom Cross
> Carluke Scotland (Jamaica 1968-84 Barbados 1984 - 2007)
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