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Verene Shepherd
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Gender | Female |
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Born | St. Mary Parish |
Jamaica | |
Books | Lucille Mathurin Mair |
Caribbean Slavery in the Atlantic World: A Student Reader | |
Liberties Lost: The Indigenous Caribbean and Slave Systems | |
Freedoms Won: Caribbean Emancipations, Ethnicities and Nationhood | |
Movies/Shows | Dreadlocks Story |
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ID | 1303293 |
Verene Shepherd Life story
Verene Albertha Shepherd is a Jamaican academic who is a professor of social history at the University of the West Indies in Mona. She is the director of the university's Institute for Gender and Development Studies, and specialises in Jamaican social history and diaspora studies.
Gladstone family urged to pay slavery reparations to Jamaica
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... John Gladstone owned " significant properties" in Jamaica, said Verene Shepherd, director of the Centre for Reparation Research at the University of the West Indies...
Richard Drax: Jamaica eyes slavery reparations from Tory MP
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... Men and women " were brutalised in Jamaica" under the Drax name, said Verene Shepherd, director of the Centre for Reparation Research at The University of the West Indies...
Irish Travellers 'mental health crisis' driven by discrimination and deprivation
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... " Prof Verene Shepherd is the chair of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, which published its most recent major report on Ireland in 2019...