David Cupples has a Ph. D. in psychology from UC Santa Barbara, with emphases on personality, cognition, and consciousness, with experience in hypnosis as a research tool. He has taught psychology at university in California and English as a university professor in Taiwan. David has made seven trips to Jamaica and spent five years writing Stir It Up. His research included interviewing former First Lady Beverley Manley in her Kingston home. David's published articles listed below can be read by clicking the BOB MARLEY option at the top of this website's pages or by accessing the link to the site of publication, as given below.
Bob Marley at Seventy: One Love Now More Than Ever, Truthout.org 2/6/15
http://truth-out.org/speakout/item/28968-bob-marley-at-seventy-one-love-now-more-than-ever
Jamaica at Fifty: A Call for Equal Rights and Justice, Pambazuka News.net (note the boxed intro was added by editors and is rather contrary to my main point)
http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/84057
Of Myth and Man: The Legacy of Bob Marley, Pambazuka News.net
http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/84193
"Rastaman With a Bullet Re-visited - Rolling Stone's Cultural Mash-up of Bob Marley and Jamaica" – Pambazuka News.net
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/91103
Heroes and "hero-ization:" A Caution, Pambazuka News.net
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/85849/print
Fear and Loathing in the Counter-Revolution, Truthout.org
http://truth-out.org/speakout/item/18043-fear-and-loathing-in-the-counter-revolution
Fear and Loathing II: Liberation Theology, Truthout.org
http://www.truth-out.org/speakout/item/18552-fear-and-loathing-ii-liberation-theology
CNN Heroes and Hero-ization, Truthout.org
http://www.truth-out.org/speakout/item/13163
Being Hannibal Lecter, Truthout.org
http://truth-out.org/speakout/item/18867-being-hannibal-lecter
Interview with Jamaicans in Solidarity with Cuba - Part One
Interview with Jamaicans in Solidarity with Cuba - Part Two
Geoengineering the Climate: A Cautionary Tale for Africa, Asia and Planet Earth, Pambazuka News 5/7/2015
http://www.pambazuka.net/en/category.php/features/94628/print
Exploitation and Pollution Aboard: The Hidden Cost of a Cruise, caribbean-events.com, 3/26/2014
http://www.caribbean-events.net/article/exploitation-and-pollution-aboard-hidden-cost-cruise-0
The Kissinger-Cuba-Angola-Jamaica Connection, Pambazuka News, Issue 701, 2014-11-05
http://www.pambazuka.net/en/category.php/features/93317/print
REPRINTS
Of Myth and Man: the Legacy of Bob Marley, Eurasia Review, 9/21/2012
http://www.eurasiareview.com/21092012-of-myth-and-man-the-legacy-of-bob-marley-oped/
Africa: Of Myth and Man - the Legacy of Bob Marley, allAfrica.com, 9/20/2012
http://allafrica.com/stories/201209210815.html
Geoengineering the Climate: A Cautionary Tale for Africa, Asia and Planet Earth
Forty Years Ago, the CIA Had Its Eye on Jamaica - and Bob Marley Got Shot