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Modern blackness : nationalism, globalization, and the politics of culture in Jamaica / Deborah A. Thomas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thomas, Deborah A., 1966-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Latin America otherwise.
- Latin America otherwise
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnicity--Jamaica.
- Ethnicity.
- Identity (Psychology)--Jamaica.
- Identity (Psychology).
- Nationalism--Jamaica.
- Nationalism.
- Politics and culture--Jamaica--History.
- Politics and culture.
- Social classes--Jamaica.
- Social classes.
- Popular culture--Jamaica.
- Popular culture.
- Globalization--Social aspects--Jamaica.
- Globalization.
- Jamaica--Cultural policy.
- Jamaica.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (373 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An ethnographic study of cultural policy in Jamaica as seen from above and below in relation to race, class, and nation.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 12. Dez 2020)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-340) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822386308
- 0822386305
- OCLC:
- 608434261
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