{"product_id":"modern-blackness-nationalism-globalization-and-the-politics-of-culture-in-jamaica-9780822334194","title":"Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica","description":"\u003ci\u003eModern Blackness\u003c\/i\u003e 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in the country's motto: \"Out of many, one people.\" As Thomas shows, by the late 1990s, creole nationalism was superseded by \"modern blackness\"-an urban blackness rooted in youth culture and influenced by African American popular culture.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.\u003cp\u003eThomas 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, \u003ci\u003eModern Blackness\u003c\/i\u003e is an important examination of the competing identities that mobilize Jamaicans locally and represent them internationally.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Deborah A. Thomas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/29\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.46w x 0.88d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822334194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeborah A. Thomas is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40414664425587,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":45.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_0f91f3b2-ddea-4c44-b888-53287e005f54.jpg?v=1662213733","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/modern-blackness-nationalism-globalization-and-the-politics-of-culture-in-jamaica-9780822334194","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}