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“Balls at Kingston to the ‘Brown Girls’,”1: A Palimpsest for Bleached-Brown Skins in Jamaican Dancehall Cover

“Balls at Kingston to the ‘Brown Girls’,”1: A Palimpsest for Bleached-Brown Skins in Jamaican Dancehall

Anthurium
Volume 17 (2021): Issue 1
By: D. A-R. Forbes-Erickson  
Open Access
|Sep 2021

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33596/anth.368 | Journal eISSN: 1547-7150
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Language: English
Published on: Sep 1, 2021
Published by: University of Miami Libraries
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Keywords:
Brown Girls Balls,
Set Girls,
John Canoe,
Dancehall,
Masquerade,
Brown Skin,
late 17th century to early 21st century

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