CONTENT

Volume 51 Nos. 3&4 Sept - Dec 2005

Foreword p. iv

PROLOGUE - Cultural Studies - The way Forward p. v
Rex Nettleford

Birth's encrypted Messages p. 1
Christine Allison

Sensitive Scholarship: A Review of Rastafari Literature(s) p. 11
Jalani Niiah

Does the Caribbean Body Daaance Or Daunce? An exploration of Modern Contemporary Dance from a Caribbean Perspective 35
L'Antoinette Stines

'Dis Slackness Ting' : A dichotomizing Master Narrative 55
in Jamaican Dancehall
Sonja Niah Stanley

Challenging Negative Stereotying and Monolithic Constructons Through Caribbean Studies 77
Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar

Socio/Cultural and Business Entrepreneurship as the potential key to our exit from Crime and Violence 86
Horace S. Williams

Finding Families within the Communities Enslaved on the Mona and Papine Estate, 1817 - 1832 94
Suzanne Francis Brown

Creole Language in Kingston: The Emergence of Basilectal Varieties 1692 - 1865 109
Michelle Stewart

BOOK REVIEW 131
Books Received 133
Abstracts 134

Notes on Contributors 138

Information for Contributors 139

Includes bibliographical references