Modern blackness : nationalism, globalization, and the politics of culture in Jamaica
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Modern blackness : nationalism, globalization, and the politics of culture in Jamaica
（Latin America otherwise）
Duke University Press, 2004
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-340) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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 As Thomas shows, by the late 1990s, creole nationalism was superseded by "modern blackness"-an urban blackness rooted in youth culture and influenced by African American popular culture.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.Thomas combines historical research with fieldwork she conducted in Jamaica between 1993 and 2003. Drawing on her research in a rural hillside community just outside Kingston, she looks at how Jamaicans interpreted and reproduced or transformed on the local level nationalist policies and popular ideologies about progress. With detailed descriptions of daily life in Jamaica set against a backdrop of postcolonial nation-building and neoliberal globalization, Modern Blackness is an important examination of the competing identities that mobilize Jamaicans locally and represent them internationally.
目次
- 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
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