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Modern blackness : nationalism, globalization, and the politics of culture in Jamaica /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thomas, Deborah A., 1966-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2004.
Series:Latin America otherwise.
Subjects:
Jamaica > Cultural policy.
Ethnicity > Jamaica.
Identity (Psychology) > Jamaica.
Nationalism > Jamaica.
Politics and culture > Jamaica > History.
Social classes > Jamaica.
Popular culture > Jamaica.
Globalization > Social aspects > Jamaica.
Table of Contents:
  • The "problem" of nationalism in the British West Indies, or, "What we are and what we hope to be"
  • Political economies of culture
  • Strangers and friends
  • Institutionalizing (racialized) progress
  • Emancipating the nation (again)
  • Political economies of modernity
  • Modern blackness, or, Theoretical "tripping" on black vernacular culture.