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Author Thomas, Deborah A., 1966- author.

Title Modern blackness : nationalism, globalization, and the politics of culture in Jamaica / Deborah A. Thomas
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 357 pages)
Series Latin America otherwise
Latin America otherwise.
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
Summary An ethnographic study of cultural policy in Jamaica as seen from above and below in relation to race, class, and nation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-340) and index
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Subject Ethnicity -- Jamaica
Identity (Psychology) -- Jamaica
Nationalism -- Jamaica
Politics and culture -- Jamaica -- History
Social classes -- Jamaica
Popular culture -- Jamaica
Globalization -- Social aspects -- Jamaica
HISTORY -- Caribbean & West Indies -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Globalization -- Social aspects.
Identity (Psychology)
Nationalism.
Politics and culture.
Popular culture.
Social classes.
Cultural policy.
Identität
Schwarze
Ethnicity.
Cultuurbeleid.
Etnisch bewustzijn.
Nationalismus
Ethnizität.
Nationalismus.
Politik.
SUBJECT Jamaica -- Cultural policy
Subject Jamaica.
Jamaika
Jamaica.
Schwarze.
Schwarze.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822386308
0822386305
0822334089
9780822334088