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Author Brown, Yvonne Shorter

Title Dead woman pickney : a memoir of childhood in Jamaica / Yvonne Shorter Brown
Published Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2010 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2010)

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 198 pages)
Series Life writing series
Life writing series.
Contents Chapter 1. Early Childhood Memories, 1947-50 -- Chapter 2. Louisiana Blues, circa 1950-54 -- Chapter 3. Life and Schooling in May Pen, circa 1955-62 -- Chapter 4. Clarendon College, Chapelton, January 1960-July 1961 -- Chapter 5. Becoming a Teacher: Mico College, 1962-65 -- Epilogue
Summary Chronicles life stories of growing up in Jamaica from 1943 to 1965 and contains both personal experience and history
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-198)
Notes English
Subject Brown, Yvonne Shorter -- Childhood and youth
Brown, Yvonne Shorter -- Family
SUBJECT Brown, Yvonne Shorter fast
Subject Racially mixed children -- Jamaica -- Biography
Maternal deprivation -- Jamaica
College teachers -- British Columbia -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Caribbean & West Indies -- General.
Childhood and youth of a person
College teachers
Families
Maternal deprivation
Race relations
Racially mixed children
Social conditions
SUBJECT Jamaica -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2021003912
Jamaica -- Social conditions
Jamaica -- Biography
Subject British Columbia
Jamaica
Genre/Form Electronic books
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
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