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Brodber, Erna

LC control no.n 82125131
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LC classificationPR9265.9.B75
Personal name headingBrodber, Erna
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Associated countryJamaica
Associated placeCanada United States
Birth date1940
Place of birthSaint Mary (Jamaica)
AffiliationUniversity of the West Indies McGill University University of Washington
Profession or occupationNovelists Sociologists
Found inHer Abandonment of children in Jamaica, 1974.
The second generation of freemen in Jamaica, 2004: CIP data sheet (Erna Brodber; b. Apr. 21, 1940)
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Brodber, Erna; Jamaican novelist and sociologist; born 1940 in St. Mary, Jamaica; worked as a civil servant and teacher in Montego Bay before entering the University of the West Indies (UWI), where she received a B.A. degree in history in 1963; M.Sc. degree in sociology from UWI (1968); received a scholarship to study at McGill University in Canada and the University of Washington; while living in the United States, she was greatly influenced by the Black Power Movement and the women's movements of the late 1960s; Ph.D. in history from UWI in 1984)