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  • Modern Blackness

    Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica

    by Deborah A. Thomas, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    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 ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation

    Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair

    by Deborah A. Thomas ...
    In 2010, Jamaican police and military forces entered the West Kingston community of Tivoli Gardens to apprehend Christopher “Dudus” Coke, who had been ordered for extradition to the United States on gun and drug-running charges. By the time Coke was detained, somewhere between seventy-five and two hundred civilians had been killed. In Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation, Deborah A. Thomas ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Exorbitance

    A Speculative Ethnography of Inheritance

    by Deborah A. Thomas ...
    Series series The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
    In Exorbitance, Deborah A. Thomas calls for new approaches to political sovereignty grounded in the embodied forms of autonomy and relation created in daily life. Rather than rooting sovereignty in the violence of the state and its institutions, Thomas conceives of sovereignty as the embodied refusal of law and dominion. Drawing on the insights of Caribbeanist thought and studies of Jamaican ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Globalization and Race

    Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness

    Edited by Kamari Maxine Clarke, Deborah A. Thomas ...
    Kamari Maxine Clarke and Deborah A. Thomas argue that a firm grasp of globalization requires an understanding of how race has constituted, and been constituted by, global transformations. Focusing attention on race as an analytic category, this state-of-the-art collection of essays explores the changing meanings of blackness in the context of globalization. It illuminates the connections between ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Creolizing Critical Theory

    New Voices in Caribbean Philosophy

    by Deborah A. Thomas ...
    Series series Creolizing the Canon
    Creolizing Critical Theory highlights the Caribbean as a philosophical site from which, for centuries and until today, theorists have articulated pressing critiques of capitalism and colonialism. Some of these critiques, such as those of the Saramaka Maroons, have stressed the value of autonomy. Others, such as those of the West Indies Federation, have emphasized solidarity in the face of European ... Read more

    Was $93.99 USD Now $32.39 USD

  • Sovereignty Unhinged

    An Illustrated Primer for the Study of Present Intensities, Disavowals, and Temporal Derangements

    Edited by Deborah A. Thomas, Joseph Masco ...
    Sovereignty Unhinged theorizes sovereignty beyond the typical understandings of action, control, and the nation-state. Rather than engaging with the geopolitical realities of the present, the contributors consider sovereignty from the perspective of how it is lived and enacted in everyday practice and how it reflects people’s aspirations for new futures. In a series of ethnographic case studies ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Citizenship on the Edge

    Sex/Gender/Race

    Edited by Nancy J. Hirschmann, Deborah A. Thomas ...
    Series series Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
    What does it mean to claim, two decades into the twenty-first century, that citizenship is on the edge? The questions that animate this volume focus attention on the relationships between liberal conceptions of citizenship and democracy on one hand, and sex, race, and gender on the other. Who "counts" as a citizen in today's world, and what are the mechanisms through which the rights, benefits, ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Citizenship on the Edge

    Sex/Gender/Race

    Edited by Nancy J. Hirschmann, Deborah A. Thomas ...
    Series series Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
    What does it mean to claim, two decades into the twenty-first century, that citizenship is on the edge? The questions that animate this volume focus attention on the relationships between liberal conceptions of citizenship and democracy on one hand, and sex, race, and gender on the other. Who "counts" as a citizen in today's world, and what are the mechanisms through which the rights, benefits, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Exceptional Violence

    Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica

    by Deborah A. Thomas ...
    Exceptional Violence is a sophisticated examination of postcolonial state formation in the Caribbean, considered across time and space, from the period of imperial New World expansion to the contemporary neoliberal era, and from neighborhood dynamics in Kingston to transnational socioeconomic and political fields. Deborah A. Thomas takes as her immediate focus violence in Jamaica and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD