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Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica

Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica

Thomas, Deborah A.

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Series: Latin America Otherwise

Caribbean HistoryAnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0822334194
ISBN13: 9780822334194
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Nov 29 2004
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.46 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Modern Blackness is a rich ethnographic exploration of Jamaican identity in the late twentieth century and early twenty-first. Analyzing nationalism, popular culture, and political economy in relation to one another, Deborah A. Thomas illuminates an ongoing struggle in Jamaica between the values associated with the postcolonial state and those generated in and through popular culture. Following independence in 1962, cultural and political policies in Jamaica were geared toward the development of a multiracial creole nationalism reflected in the country's motto: Out of many, one people. As Thomas shows, by the late 1990s, creole nationalism was superseded by modern blackness--an urban blackness rooted in youth culture and influenced by African American popular culture. Expressions of blackness that had been marginalized in national cultural policy became paramount in contemporary understandings of what it was to be Jamaican.

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