The Trouble with Post-Blackness by Baker Houston A.; Simmons K. Merinda;

Author:Baker, Houston A.; Simmons, K. Merinda;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SOC001000, Social Science/Ethnic Studies/African American Studies, SOC031000, Social Science/Discrimination & Race Relations
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2015-02-03T05:00:00+00:00

NOTES

1. Toni Morrison was the one who infamously dubbed Bill Clinton “America’s first black president,” in a 1998 piece she wrote for the New Yorker. For further discussion, see http://www.salon.com/2002/02/21/clinton_88/.

2. I mean “ethical deconstruction” in the Derridean sense, pointing to the ethical turn in Derridean deconstruction in which deconstruction and persuasive ethical consequences are vital to our thinking through of questions relating to politics and democracy. See Critchley (1999) and Luszczynsa (2011).

3. This section is a much elaborated and extensive treatment of my prior piece on Life and Debt (2012).

4. All references to film are to Black (2001).

5. The quote “up the down escalator” is borrowed from title of Michael Manley’s book (1983).

6. “Stephanie Black Shows how the IMF Makes Developing Countries Dependent on the G-8 Nations, in her film Life and Debt.” BuzzFlash Interviews (July 25, 2005), 3.

7. Technology/media data on Jamaica is available through the Commonwealth website, http://thecommonwealth.org/our-member-countries/jamaica/society.

8. Buju Banton. “Destiny.” Inner Heights. Heartbeat, 1997.

9. For more details on ska and its relationship to reggae, see Salewicz and Boot (2001).

10. The first free zone in Jamaica was actually established in 1976.

11. The 1970s bore witness to a mass exodus from Jamaica of the professional and intellectual classes in the form of a proverbial “brain drain” propelled by “red scare” tactics. These mostly privileged Jamaicans believed (and many still do) that “is Manley and his communism dat mash up the country.”

12. The West went into an economic convulsion as a consequence of decreases in oil production and the placement of embargos on shipments of crude oil imposed by oil-producing companies protesting the backing of Israel in the Arab–Israeli war of 1973. The market price for oil instantaneously soared. The world financial system experienced, as a consequence, a series of recessions and increasing inflation, what Manley describes as a “world economic convulsion.” The devaluation of the U.S. dollar as a result of the OPEC oil crisis and its residuals had an ineffable consequence on economies like Jamaica’s, which were pegged to the U.S. dollar.

13. “Give Us the Queen!” Daily Gleaner, June 28, 2011, http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20110628/lead/lead1.html.

14. It is important to note that inasmuch as Paul rightly locates the genesis of the changing of the community’s name from Borderline to Gaza with a cultural attitude of homophobia, she also relevantly points out that the existence of characters like Shebada and the societies’ engagement with transgressive sexualities demands a more nuanced analysis than is currently reflected in some international gay rights groups’ “jackhammer strategies at outing and combating what is touted worldwide as Jamaican homophobia.”

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