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“‘. . . to ensure that only suitable persons are sent’: Screening Jamaican Women for the West Indian Domestic Scheme in Canada” in Jamaicans in the Canadian Experience: A Multiculturalizing Presence, 36-53
Michele Johnson is a professor of history and Associate Dean Students in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies at York University.
Other publications from this author include:
- “In Slavery and Freedom: Domestic Service in the Caribbean” in Slavery, Resistance and Abolitions: A Pluralist Perspective, 197-214 (2019)
- “‘Mi have to work’: La domesticité des enfants en Jamaïque, 1920-1970” in Situations Contemporaines de Servitude et d’Esclavage: Anthropologie et sociétés, 41 (1), 147-177 (2017)
- “Ah look afta de chile like is mine’: Discourses of Mothering in Jamaican Domestic Service, 1920-1970” in Colonization and Domestic Service: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, 79-96 (2015)
- “‘The Spear is Black with a pure gold point’: Articulations of ‘Blackness’ in Toronto during the 1970s” in Exploring Dimensions of African Diasporas, 180-215 (2014)
- “They Do as They Please”: The Jamaican Struggle for Cultural Freedom After Morant Bay (2011)
- “‘Problematic Bodies’: Negotiations and Terminations in Domestic Service in Jamaica, 1920-1970” in Left History (Special Issue: Domestic Service), 12 (2), 84-112 (2007)
- “Women’s Labours in the Caribbean” in Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal / Revue d’etudes sur les femmes, 32 (1), 2007. (2007)
- Neither Led Nor Driven: Contesting British Cultural Imperialism in Jamaica, 1865-1920 (2004)
- UNSETTLING THE GREAT WHITE NORTH: BLACK CANADIAN HISTORY ()