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Freedom House's annual press freedom index, now covering 195 countries and territories, has tracked trends in media freedom worldwide since 1980. Freedom of the Press 2008 provides comparative rankings and examines the legal environment for the media, political pressures that influence reporting, and economic factors that affect access to information. The survey is the most authoritative assessment of media freedom around the world. Its findings are widely utilized by policymakers, scholars, press freedom advocates, journalists, and international institutions

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations andFigures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Emancipation: An Unfinished Story -- Song as Enactment ofAncestral Memory -- Section 1- Sustaining the Memory -- A Weh Dem A Go? The Slave Trade of Jamaica -- The Memorialisation of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Freedom Narratives -- Africans in Early English Jamaica (1655-1700): The Akan-Dominance Myth -- Freedom and Slavery in Maryse Condé's Moi, Tituba: From Spiritual Adaptation to Universal Magic -- Section II - Freedom Road -- Freedom Road: The Empowerment of the Enslaved Population by the Eighteenth Century -- The Nature of the Amerindian/European Encounter and Its Impact on theAmerindians -- Marginality or Activism: The Black Male and the Family in Nineteenth-Century Jamaica -- Section III - Rethinking Freedom -- 'All That is Buried is Not Dead': Public Histories and Legacies of Slavery in Post-Apartheid Cape Town -- The 1805 Haitian Constitution: The Making of Slave Freedom in the Atlantic World -- Section IV - Legacy -- The Legacies of the Transatlantic Trade inEnslaved Africans and Human Development Challenges: The Role of Education -- Two Hundred Years since the Abolition of the Slave Trade -- Section V - Unfinished Business -- I Remember Because I Am Free: Thoughts on the Bicentennial Celebration of the Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade -- The Black Resurrection -The Rastafari Perspective -- Unfinished Business: Ignored Voices -- Epilogue Reparations for African Enslavement: Preparing the Caribbean Case -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

Examines the collaborative platform Two Fuse examine the practice of freedom in the context of neo-liberal enterprise culture, focusing specifically on how this is shaped by power relations that sustain social suffering by generating an equality of inequality.

Freedom in the World, the Freedom House flagship survey whose findings have been published annually since 1972, is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties. The survey ratings and narrative reports on 195 countries and 14 territories are used by policymakers, the media, international corporations, civic activists, and human rights defenders to monitor trends in democracy and track improvements and setbacks in freedom worldwide.

Freedom in the World, the Freedom House flagship survey whose findings have been published annually since 1972, is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties. The survey ratings and narrative reports on 194 countries and 14 territories are used by policymakers, the media, international corporations, civic activists, and human rights defenders to monitor trends in democracy and track improvements and setbacks in freedom worldwide.