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

by Deborah A. Thomas

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822334194
• ISBN13: 9780822334194
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.3"