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Modern Blackness
Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica
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Deborah A. Thomas
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Edited by:
Irene Silverblatt
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English
Published/Copyright:
2004
About this book
An ethnographic study of cultural policy in Jamaica as seen from above and below in relation to race, class, and nation.
Author / Editor information
Deborah A. Thomas is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University.
Reviews
“Modern Blackness is an important book. It is well written, it puts forth a creative theoretical apparatus, and it displays Deborah A. Thomas’s keen ethnographic eye. It is on a topic of extreme importance to the discipline of anthropology as well as to African diaspora and Caribbean and Latin American studies, engaging as it does some of the effects of neoliberalism and structural adjustment in today’s world.”—Kevin A. Yelvington, author of Producing Power: Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in a Caribbean Workplace
“In its critique of creole respectability, Modern Blackness challenges established views of Jamaican nationalism and the nation-state. Deborah A. Thomas argues that the young and black who live in Kingston have forged social values and transnational links that reflect their disillusion with education and aspirations to the middle class. She confronts the reader with the reality of life among the ‘lower sets’ and provides a provocative agenda for rethinking blackness.”—Diane Austin-Broos, author of Jamaica Genesis: Religion and the Politics of Moral Orders
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PART I The Global-National
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November 29, 2004
eBook ISBN:
9780822386308
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