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"" ... Modern Blackness is an exploration of the counterculture that has come to dominate Jamaica's national identity--despite what anybody in authority asserts.""--Times Literary Supplement 1 July 2005 "" ... Jamaica-born Thomas presents compelling, multi-layered arguments about the significant shift in conceptualizations of Jamaican national identity over the four decades-plus since independence.""--SHE CARIBBEAN, Nov 2007

... Modern Blackness is an exploration of the counterculture that has come to dominate Jamaica's national identity--despite what anybody in authority asserts. --Times Literary Supplement 1 July 2005 ... Jamaica-born Thomas presents compelling, multi-layered arguments about the significant shift in conceptualizations of Jamaican national identity over the four decades-plus since independence. --SHE CARIBBEAN, Nov 2007

Modern Blackness is 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 Producing Power: Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in a Caribbean Workplace In its critique of creole respectability, Modern Blackness challenges 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 Jamaica Genesis: Religion and the Politics of Moral Orders

""" ... Modern Blackness is an exploration of the counterculture that has come to dominate Jamaica's national identity--despite what anybody in authority asserts.""--Times Literary Supplement 1 July 2005 "" ... Jamaica-born Thomas presents compelling, multi-layered arguments about the significant shift in conceptualizations of Jamaican national identity over the four decades-plus since independence.""--SHE CARIBBEAN, Nov 2007"

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Deborah A. Thomas is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University.

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