{"product_id":"modern-blackness-9780822334194","title":"Modern Blackness","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn ethnographic study of cultural policy in Jamaica as seen from above and below in relation to race, class, and nation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eModern Blackness \u003c\/i\u003eis an important book. It is well written, it puts forth a creative theoretical apparatus, and it displays Deborah A. Thomas’s keen ethnographic eye. It is on a topic of extreme importance to the discipline of anthropology as well as to African diaspora and Caribbean and Latin American studies, engaging as it does some of the effects of neoliberalism and structural adjustment in today’s world.”—Kevin A. Yelvington, author of \u003ci\u003eProducing Power: Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in a Caribbean Workplace\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In its critique of creole respectability, \u003ci\u003eModern Blackness \u003c\/i\u003echallenges established views of Jamaican nationalism and the nation-state. Deborah A. Thomas argues that the young and black who live in Kingston have forged social values and transnational links that reflect their disillusion with education and aspirations to the middle class. She confronts the reader with the reality of life among the ‘lower sets’ and provides a provocative agenda for rethinking blackness.”—Diane Austin-Broos, author of \u003ci\u003eJamaica Genesis: Religion and the Politics of Moral Orders\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: \"Out of Many, One (Black) People\" 1\u003cbr\u003e Part 1: The Global-National 27\u003cbr\u003e 1. The \"Problem\" of Nationalism in the British West Indies; or, \"What We Are and What We Hope to Be\" 29\u003cbr\u003e 2. Political Economies of Culture 58\u003cbr\u003e Part II: The National-Local 93\u003cbr\u003e 3. Strangers and Friends 95\u003cbr\u003e 4. Institutionalizing (Racialized) Progress 130\u003cbr\u003e 5. Emancipating the Nation (Again) 158\u003cbr\u003e Part III: The Local-Global 193\u003cbr\u003e 6. Political Economies of Modernity 195\u003cbr\u003e 7. Modern Blackness; or, Theoretical \"Tripping\" on Black Vernacular Cultures 230\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: The Remix 263\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue 271\u003cbr\u003e Notes 279\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 311\u003cbr\u003e Index 341","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406036640087,"sku":"9780822334194","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/modern-blackness-9780822334194","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}