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Jovan Scott Lewis — Scammer's Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica
Condition: New.
An ethnography of young men in Montego Bay who run lottery scams targeting elderly North Americans. Anthropologist Jovan Scott Lewis follows Omar, Junior and Dwayne as they frame their hustle not simply as crime but as a form of repair: a way of taking back from a global economy built on slavery and colonial extraction. A provocative, humane study of race, money, morality and what reparation can mean when the state and market offer none.
Part of the Black Curatorial reading room — books from our Frieze London 2026 presentation and the wider Caribbean and Black British canon. Enquiries: aliyah@blackcuratorial.co
Jovan Scott Lewis — Scammer's Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica
Condition: New.
An ethnography of young men in Montego Bay who run lottery scams targeting elderly North Americans. Anthropologist Jovan Scott Lewis follows Omar, Junior and Dwayne as they frame their hustle not simply as crime but as a form of repair: a way of taking back from a global economy built on slavery and colonial extraction. A provocative, humane study of race, money, morality and what reparation can mean when the state and market offer none.
Part of the Black Curatorial reading room — books from our Frieze London 2026 presentation and the wider Caribbean and Black British canon. Enquiries: aliyah@blackcuratorial.co