Deborah A. Thomas

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Deborah A. Thomas

Anthropology

#1432

World Rank

#1877

Historical Rank

#651

USA Rank

Cultural Anthropology

#84

World Rank

#108

Historical Rank

#50

USA Rank

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Anthropology

Deborah A. Thomas's Degrees

PhD Anthropology New York University
Masters Anthropology New York University

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According to Wikipedia, Deborah A. Thomas is an American anthropologist and filmmaker, and is the R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Experimental Ethnography at the University of Pennsylvania. She has published books and articles on the history, culture, and politics of Jamaica; and on human rights, sexuality, and globalization in the Caribbean arena. She has co-produced and co-directed two experimental films, and has co-curated a multimedia exhibit at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. In 2016, she began a four-year term as editor-in-chief of the journal American Anthropologist. Before pursuing her career as an anthropologist, Thomas performed as a professional dancer with Urban Bush Women, a New York dance company that used art to promote social equity by illuminating the experiences of disenfranchised people.

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Deborah A. Thomas's Published Works

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Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica (2004) (167)
Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness (2012) (130)
Demeaned but Empowered: The Social Power of the Urban Poor in Jamaica (2004) (117)
Globalization and Race: Structures of Inequality, New Sovereignties, and Citizenship in a Neoliberal Era (2013) (65)
Rethinking Global and Area Studies: Insights from Caribbeanist Anthropology (2003) (57)
Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation (2019) (57)
gendering diaspora: transnational feminism, diaspora and its hegemonies (2008) (54)
Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica (2011) (46)
Caribbean Studies, Archive Building, and the Problem of Violence (2013) (38)
Time and the otherwise: Plantations, garrisons and being human in the Caribbean (2016) (37)
The Violence of Diaspora: Governmentality, Class Cultures, and Circulations (2009) (37)
Dancehall: From Slave Ship to Ghetto (2011) (36)
Modern Blackness (2020) (28)
Democratizing Dance: Institutional Transformation and Hegemonic Re-Ordering in Postcolonial Jamaica (2002) (22)
Modern Blackness: “What We Are and What We Hope to Be“ (2002) (19)
Death and Renewal (2019) (17)
Public Bodies: Virginity Testing, Redemption Songs, and Racial Respect in Jamaica (2006) (16)
RACIAL SITUATIONS: Nationalist Vindication and Radical Deconstructionism (2013) (15)
BLACKNESS ACROSS BORDERS: JAMAICAN DIASPORAS AND NEW POLITICS OF CITIZENSHIP (2007) (14)
The Emergence of Modern Blackness in Jamaica (2005) (13)
wal-mart, ‘katrina’, and other ideological tricks: Jamaican hotel workers in Michigan (2008) (13)
Thackeray and slavery (1993) (13)
INTRODUCTION: LOCALITY IN TODAY'S GLOBAL CARIBBEAN: SHIFTING ECONOMIES OF NATION, RACE, AND DEVELOPMENT (2007) (11)
Emancipating the nation (again): Notes on nationalism, “modernization,” and other dilemmas in post‐colonial Jamaica (1999) (11)
The Problem with Violence: Exceptionality and Sovereignty in the New World (2014) (11)
Dickens and the short story (1982) (10)
Diasporic Hegemonies: Popular Culture and Transnational Blackness (2007) (9)
Diasporic Hegemonies: Slavery, Memory, and Genealogies of Diaspora (2006) (9)
Selected Short Fiction (1976) (8)
Caribbean Studies, Anthropology, and U.S. Academic Realignments* (2008) (7)
Rastafari, Communism, and Surveillance in Late Colonial Jamaica (2017) (7)
Cox’s America: caste, race, and the problem of culture (2014) (6)
Strangers and Friends (1994) (6)
Decolonizing Disciplines: From the Editor (2018) (6)
Modern Blackness: Progress, “America,” and the Politics of Popular Culture in Jamaica (2012) (5)
Development, "Culture," and the Promise of Modern Progress (2005) (5)
Politics Beyond Boundaries: A Review Essay of Current Works on Nationalism, Migration, and Cultural Production within the Black Atlantic World (2004) (4)
Hard Times: A Fable of Fragmentation and Wholeness (1997) (4)
Assyrian Monsters and Domestic Chimeras (2008) (3)
The End of the West and the Future of Us All (2019) (2)
Travels with Anthropology (2009) (2)
Public Secrets, Militarization, and the Cultivation of Doubt: Kingston 2010 (2017) (2)
Abstraction, witnessing, and repair; or, how multimodal research can destabilize the coloniality of the gaze (2021) (2)
An Anthropology of Epochal Shift; or, What Leith Mullings Teaches Us about Global Transformation (2021) (2)
"Don't let the bastards grind you down": echoes of Hard Times in The Handmaid's Tale (2008) (2)
THACKERAY, CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, AND THE DEMISE OF JOS SEDLEY (2005) (2)
The Problem of Future‐Thinking (2020) (2)
Leadership and Accountability (2018) (2)
Entrepreneurial Selves: Neoliberal Respectability and the Making of a Caribbean Middle Class, written by Carla Freeman (2016) (2)
The Status of the Social Fact (2017) (1)
"Tradition's not an intelligence thing" : Jamaican cultural politics and the ascendence of modern blackness (2000) (1)
Money and Its Effects (2018) (1)
Archiving Violence: a conversation on the making of Poto Mitan and Bad Friday (2013) (1)
Violence, Mourning, and Political Alternatives (2014) (1)
BONDAGE AND FREEDOM IN THACKERAY'S "PENDENNIS" (2016) (1)
The Problem of Translation (2019) (1)
Rights, Gifts, Repair (2020) (1)
Can Black Lives Matter in a Black Country? (2022) (1)
THE ISSUE OF WHITENESS (2009) (1)
Callaloo Nation: Metaphors of Race and Religious Identities among South Asians in Trinidad (2006) (1)
Crisis, Epochal Shifts, and Conceptual Disenchantment (2019) (1)
The Afterlives of Disasters (2017) (1)
New savage slots, response to Viranjini Munasinghe's “Theorizing world culture through the New World: East Indians and creolization” (2006) (1)
WITNESSING (2020) (1)
POLITICS AND THE SHIFTING BOUNDARIES OF BLACKNESS (2008) (1)
Citizenship and Social Exclusion (2012) (1)
Chapter 1. Imaginative License (1982) (0)
Postnationalism Prefigured: Caribbean Borderlands (2004) (0)
Dead Bodies, 2004-2005 (2011) (0)
Resurrected Bodies, 1963/2007 (2011) (0)
Putting bodies on the line: notes on hegemony, vulnerability, and witnessing (2020) (0)
Public Bodies, 2003 (2011) (0)
RACE, LANGUAGE, AND DIASPORA (2010) (0)
Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness, documentary film produced by Llewellyn Smith, Vincent Brown and Christine Herbes‐Sommers. Distributed by Vital Pictures and the Independent Television Service (ITVS), 56 minutes, 2009. (2012) (0)
Chapter 5. Public Entertainment (1982) (0)
Book reviews (1992) (0)
Chapter 3. Storybooks in a Workaday World (1982) (0)
Chapter 4. The Chord of the Christmas Season (1982) (0)
Subject Index Vol. 106, 2001 (2002) (0)
Book Reviews (2011) (0)
Displacements: The Jamaican 1950s (2021) (0)
What the Caribbean Teaches Us: The Afterlives and New Lives of Coloniality (2022) (0)
Constance R. Sutton (1926–2018) (2020) (0)
What Are Anthropologists Reading, Watching, and Listening To This Summer? (2019) (0)
Spectacular Bodies, 1816/2007 (2011) (0)
Haiti, Politics and Sovereign (Mis)recognitions (2016) (0)
Call for Papers, 108th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association: The End/s of Anthropology. (2009) (0)
Book reviews (1995) (0)
Constance R. Sutton (2018) (0)
Exhibits and Performance at the AAA Meeting (2009) (0)
Political Economies of Modernity (2004) (0)
Panic and Pandemics (2020) (0)
On the Transition (2017) (0)
From the Editors of Transforming Anthropology (2008) (0)
Age of Innocence (2003) (0)
Chapter 7. Unrestrained Invention (1982) (0)
The Future of Visual Anthropology in the Wake of Black Lives Matter (2021) (0)
The Achievement of Love (1982) (0)
ScholarlyCommons ScholarlyCommons Citizenship From Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom Citizenship From Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom (2021) (0)
Contents Vol. 106, 2001 (2002) (0)
What We Reap (2018) (0)
Intellectual Freedom and Inclusivity: Opposites or Partners? (2020) (0)
Modern Blackness; or, Theoretical “Tripping” on Black Vernacular Culture (2004) (0)
Making Four Days in May (2020) (0)
Anthropology in a Time of Economic Crisis (2009) (0)
Recently Published (2007) (0)
The “Problem” of Nationalism in the British West Indies; or, “What We Are and What We Hope to Be” (2004) (0)
Emancipating the Nation (Again) (2004) (0)
MILEPOSTS: “WITHOUT A HISTORY, YOU REMAIN A MYSTERY …”1 (2010) (0)
Appendix B. Chronological Frame (1982) (0)
Editing the Visual Anthropology Section of American Anthropologist: A Brief Statement from the Incoming Editors (2014) (0)
Chapter 6. Murder and Self-Effacement (1982) (0)
Vibrations in the Memory: Bleak House 's Response to Illustrations of Becky in Vanity Fair (2013) (0)
The Question of Audience (2019) (0)
INTRODUCTION. (2022) (0)
Response to Commentaries on "Public Bodies …" (2006) (0)
Afro-Atlantic Dialogues: Anthropology in the Diaspora edited by Kevin A. Yelvington (2010) (0)
Introducing the Executive Program Committee (2009) (0)
Displacements (2020) (0)
Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importers, a Haitian Anthropologist and Self-Making in Jamaica. Gina A. Ulysse (2009) (0)
A Spirit of Inquiry (2020) (0)
The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament, by Orlando Patterson (2021) (0)
Mimi ShellerCitizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2012. xvii + 346 pp. (Paper US$25.95) (2014) (0)
Political Economies of Culture (2004) (0)
Appendix A. Contributors to the Christmas Numbers of Household Words and All the Year Round, 1850-67 (1982) (0)
DisplacementsThe Jamaican 1950s (2020) (0)
Intragroup comparisons of middle age women. (1981) (0)
Afterword (2009) (0)
Deviant Bodies, 2005/1945 (2011) (0)
Institutionalizing (Racialized) Progress (2004) (0)
Chapter 2. Imaginative Overindulgence (1982) (0)
The Anxieties of History and Memory (2017) (0)

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