Obika Gray
Biographic Data
| ID | 146887 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Obika Gray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Obika |
| FAMILY NAME | Gray |
| SIGNATURE | GRAY O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Coloniality of Power and the Limits of Dissent in Jamaica
The Jamaican 1960s represented a critical phase in the island's political history. The era provoked a second round of decolonization politics as the culturally Eurocentric political class that won power in the first round, during the 1930s, encountered stiff opposition to its autocratic power, antiblack racism, and perceived accommodation to the island's dependency on the economic, cultural, and political institutions of the world system. A myria…
Race, Class, and the Politics of Decolonization: Jamaica Journals, 1961 and 1968, written by Colin Clarke
Intellectuals and Social Change: Brian Meeks and Transitions in Caribbean Political Thought
It is now commonplace to lament the enervation of social thought and the passing of an important social figure-the critical, classical humanistic intellectual as a major actor in contemporary society. This elegy for polymath political leaders and for the presumed demise of theoretically gifted political intellectuals is heard in the United States and in the Commonwealth Caribbean. Both the quality of social thought and regard for political intell…
Demeaned but Empowered: The Social Power of the Urban Poor in Jamaica
Demeaned but Empowered
Obika Gray asserts that state power in Jamaica is predatory in its reach, incorporating contradictory social forces in an arrangement that is hierarchical, often brutal and ultimately debilitating to democracy. In this groundbreaking study, he introduces a series of constructs to support this argument, but the more interesting and novel theses are to be found in his vivid description of the social forces that resist the predatory state and how th…
Predation Politics and the Political Impasse in Jamaica
Research Article| March 01 2003 Predation Politics and the Political Impasse in Jamaica Obika Gray Obika Gray Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 72–94. https://doi.org/10.1215/-7-1-72 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Obika Gray; Predation Politics and the Political Impasse in Jamaica. Small Axe 1 March 2003; 7 (1): 72–94. doi: https://…
Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth-Century America
Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth-Century America. Winston James. London, UK, and New York, NY: Verso, 1998. + 406pp. (Cloth US$27.00)
C. L. R. James: His Intellectual Legacies
Demeaned but Empowered
Obika Gray asserts that state power in Jamaica is predatory in its reach, incorporating contradictory social forces in an arrangement that is hierarchical, often brutal and ultimately debilitating to democracy. In this groundbreaking study, he introduces a series of constructs to support this argument, but the more interesting and novel theses are to be found in his vivid description of the social forces that resist the predatory state and how th…
Predation Politics and the Political Impasse in Jamaica
Research Article| March 01 2003 Predation Politics and the Political Impasse in Jamaica Obika Gray Obika Gray Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 72–94. https://doi.org/10.1215/-7-1-72 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Obika Gray; Predation Politics and the Political Impasse in Jamaica. Small Axe 1 March 2003; 7 (1): 72–94. doi: https://…
The Coloniality of Power and the Limits of Dissent in Jamaica
The Jamaican 1960s represented a critical phase in the island's political history. The era provoked a second round of decolonization politics as the culturally Eurocentric political class that won power in the first round, during the 1930s, encountered stiff opposition to its autocratic power, antiblack racism, and perceived accommodation to the island's dependency on the economic, cultural, and political institutions of the world system. A myria…
Intellectuals and Social Change: Brian Meeks and Transitions in Caribbean Political Thought
It is now commonplace to lament the enervation of social thought and the passing of an important social figure-the critical, classical humanistic intellectual as a major actor in contemporary society. This elegy for polymath political leaders and for the presumed demise of theoretically gifted political intellectuals is heard in the United States and in the Commonwealth Caribbean. Both the quality of social thought and regard for political intell…
C. L. R. James: His Intellectual Legacies
Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth-Century America
Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth-Century America. Winston James. London, UK, and New York, NY: Verso, 1998. + 406pp. (Cloth US$27.00)
Predation Politics and the Political Impasse in Jamaica
Research Article| March 01 2003 Predation Politics and the Political Impasse in Jamaica Obika Gray Obika Gray Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 72–94. https://doi.org/10.1215/-7-1-72 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Obika Gray; Predation Politics and the Political Impasse in Jamaica. Small Axe 1 March 2003; 7 (1): 72–94. doi: https://…
Demeaned but Empowered: The Social Power of the Urban Poor in Jamaica
Demeaned but Empowered
Obika Gray asserts that state power in Jamaica is predatory in its reach, incorporating contradictory social forces in an arrangement that is hierarchical, often brutal and ultimately debilitating to democracy. In this groundbreaking study, he introduces a series of constructs to support this argument, but the more interesting and novel theses are to be found in his vivid description of the social forces that resist the predatory state and how th…
Intellectuals and Social Change: Brian Meeks and Transitions in Caribbean Political Thought
It is now commonplace to lament the enervation of social thought and the passing of an important social figure-the critical, classical humanistic intellectual as a major actor in contemporary society. This elegy for polymath political leaders and for the presumed demise of theoretically gifted political intellectuals is heard in the United States and in the Commonwealth Caribbean. Both the quality of social thought and regard for political intell…
The Coloniality of Power and the Limits of Dissent in Jamaica
The Jamaican 1960s represented a critical phase in the island's political history. The era provoked a second round of decolonization politics as the culturally Eurocentric political class that won power in the first round, during the 1930s, encountered stiff opposition to its autocratic power, antiblack racism, and perceived accommodation to the island's dependency on the economic, cultural, and political institutions of the world system. A myria…
Race, Class, and the Politics of Decolonization: Jamaica Journals, 1961 and 1968, written by Colin Clarke
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)