Small Worlds
Childhood and Empire
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5819700 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary Chamberlain (Oxford Brookes University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 186-200 |
| Publication date | 2002-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Family History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0363-1990 • E-ISSN: 1552-5473 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/036319900202700207 |
| OpenAlex | W1984686644 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 11 |
There are no historical studies and-despite the concern of social sciences with Caribbean families-few scholarly works that have focused on childhood and child rearing. Yet attitudes to children, child care, and child rearing reveal many of the values and philosophies that underpin social organization and may be seen as a litmus test of (formal and informal) social provision. This article examines the narratives of Caribbean colonial childhoods, arguing that they reveal social principles that are essentially egalitarian, a social world characterized by order and respect and an organization of family life modeled on inclusive and communitarian principles. These village-based childhoods not only contrasted with the colonial view of West Indian social organization but also proved a bedrock of social pride, an antidote to the lack of social provision, and an idiom through which Caribbean migrants could both converse and survive in the world beyond the Caribbean
Litmus · Pride · Social order · Social organization · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
Caste and class in a southern town.
Family and Kinship in East London
Modernity and Self-Identity
"Motherhood Is Powerful"
The Family and the Modern World System
Welfare and Planning in the West Indies
White Visions, Black Lives
Praise Songs' of the Family
The family as model and metaphor in Caribbean migration to Britain
The Role of the Male in the Middle-Class Jamaican Family
Working Miracles
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,32 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2014 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |