Deborah A Thomas

Modern Blackness

Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica

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Produktbeschreibung

An ethnographic study of cultural policy in Jamaica as seen from above and below in relation to race, class, and nation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 161mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9780822334088
• ISBN-10: 0822334089
• Artikelnr.: 21330653

Autorenporträt

Deborah A. Thomas is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: "Out of Many, One (Black) People" 1
Part 1: The Global-National 27
1. The "Problem" of Nationalism in the British West Indies; or, "What We
Are and What We Hope to Be" 29
2. Political Economies of Culture 58
Part II: The National-Local 93
3. Strangers and Friends 95
4. Institutionalizing (Racialized) Progress 130
5. Emancipating the Nation (Again) 158
Part III: The Local-Global 193
6. Political Economies of Modernity 195
7. Modern Blackness; or, Theoretical "Tripping" on Black Vernacular
Cultures 230
Conclusion: The Remix 263
Epilogue 271
Notes 279
Bibliography 311
Index 341