About face: Violence and power in today’s Jamaica
“Face” is a significant topic in the study of human social interaction. The notion of “dissing and being dissed” is the local counterpart of the negative aspect of that concept. Face …
Habeas Corpus or Hocus-pocus? U.S. Policy on Deportations
There are words in the English language which sound more negative or more dour than they actually are. One such example is the word “sanguine” which, at least to me, sounds …