Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams once declared apropos provincial politics that "we can't allow things that are inaccurate to stand." Taking him at his word, Drew Brown presents an engaged analysis of the class interests and ideological distortions underlying the island's politics in the 20th century. From the collapse of democracy at the outset of the Great Depression to the collapse of the cod fishery at the end of the century, Drew traces the way the state has worked in concert with private capital to entrench the power of a local commercial elite over the political process...

This work examines variations of the social stratification paradigm in the humanities and social sciences. Extending the boundaries of thematic semblances, this study seeks to exhibit the flexibility, yet commonality of Africana phenomena. Essays in this study explore the content analysis of black economics from an interdisciplinary perspective.