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PublisherHolt & Company, Henry
ISBN-100805046984
ISBN-139780805046984
eBay Product ID (ePID)500987
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Book TitleBorn Fi' Dead : a Journey Through the Jamaican Posse Underworld
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicSociology / General, General, Criminology
Publication Year1996
FeaturesRevised
GenreSocial Science
AuthorLaurie Gunst
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight9.2 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
Reviews"A remarkable accomplishment . . . With clarity and power Gunst tracks down a complex, harrowing, and elusive story."-Ekwueme Michel Thelwell, The Washington Post, "A remarkable accomplishment . . . With clarity and power Gunst tracks down a complex, harrowing, and elusive story."- Ekwueme Michel Thelwell, The Washington Post
Dewey Edition20
Dewey Decimal364.1/06/097292
Edition DescriptionRevised edition
SynopsisAmong the ethnic gangs that rule America's inner cities, none has had the impact of the Jamaican posses. Spawned in the ghettos of Kingston as mercenary street-fighters for the island's politicians, the posses began migrating to the United States in the early 1980s, just in time to catch and ride the crack wave as it engulfed this country. Feared and honored for being "harder than the rest", these Jamaican cocaine syndicates laid claim to their new American territory with outlaw bravura and a ruthlessness that was immortalized in song; the raw dance hall music born of their world defined "gangsta" culture for a generation of angry sufferers in Jamaica, America, and England. The posses are part of the Third World diaspora that is changing the face of the United States, yet they live in a world few Americans will ever know. The voices of their young soldiers go unheard, silenced early by the guns that both distinguish and destroy their lives. They see themselves as legendary desperadoes in the bestHollywood tradition, taking their aliases from the spaghetti-western gunfighters and Mafia dons whose style they revere. Drawn to the posses by their fusion of Wild West fantasy and brutal reality, Laurie Gunst spent a decade moving with the gang members between Jamaica and America. She slowly became a player in her own story; entangled in the web of the gunmen's lives and those of the law enforcement officials who tracked them. "You are not here to say who is good and who is bad", one Kingston ally warned her. "You should only be committed to reality". Born Fi' Dead is her portrait of the posses, the first account of Jamaica's international gangs., Of the ethnic gangs that rule America's inner cities, none has had the impact of the Jamaican posses. Spawned in the ghettos of Kingston as mercenary street-fighters for the island's politicians, the posses began migrating to the United States in the early 1980s, just in time to catch and ride the crack wave as it engulfed the country. Feared and honored for being "harder than the rest," they would lay claim to their new American territory with outlaw bravura, and the raw dancehall music born of their world would define "gangsta" culture for a generation of angry sufferers in Jamaica, American, and England. Laurie Gunst spent a decade moving with the possemen, and Born Fi' Dead is her unique account of this netherworld, the first to bring to life Jamaica's international gangs.
