Born fi dead by Laurie Gunst, a reference work, is now available in French. This translation is the second project published by Jamaica Insula, the publishing house of our colleagues at Natty Dread.
Very well documented and enriched with numerous first-hand accounts, this book, first published in 1995, sets the author's own experience in Jamaica and in Brooklyn in the 80s alongside a taboo-free summary of the role of gangs and other posses in Jamaican political life.
This dark and little-known picture, one of the most complete ever published, shows how these micro-structures, born in the ghettos of Kingston, were exported to the United States while turning to crime, and why they are still today at the heart of Jamaican political tribalism.
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