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Deborah Thomas - "Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica"

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Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica
Professor Deborah Thomas, University of Pennsylvania Department of Anthropology

Friday, September 28, 2012
1:30pm
Heyman Center common room
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Deborah A. Thomas is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica and a co-editor of Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness, both also published by Duke University Press.