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    1. (Trans)nationalisms, marronage, and queer subjectivities

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Cummings,Ronald (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Oct 2010
    Published:
    Arlington, VA: Association of Black Anthropologists
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Transforming Anthropology
    Journal Title Details:
    18(2) : 169-180
    Notes:
    Focuses on discourses of queer subjectivity, Maroon identity, and their relationship to Caribbean nationalism. A key aspect of the argumentis the idea that both queerness and marronage are marked by complex insider/outsider identity positions that resist and complicate binarist discourses of belonging and unbelonging.

    2. Surinamese Maroons as reggae artistes: music, marginality and urban space

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    JAFFE,RIVKE (Author) and Sanderse,Jolien (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Oct 2010
    Published:
    Abingdon, UK: Routledge/Taylor & Francis
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Ethnic and Racial Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    33(9) : 1561-1579
    Notes:
    Examines how marginalized Maroon youth in Paramaribo, the capital of the Caribbean nation of Suriname, employ musical strategies in combating ethno-racial stigmatization and improving their socio-economic position. Traditionally, Maroons, after escaping the plantations during slavery, have lived in semi-isolation in Suriname's dense rainforest. In recent decades, they have become increasingly urbanized, to the discontent of many in Paramaribo, who view Maroons as backward, violent criminals. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and popular culture analysis, the article discusses how young Maroons use reggae and dancehall to create and recreate physical and social spaces of their own within the city and outside the forest. They protest local conditions and inequity by drawing on regional images of marginality that have been shaped by Rastafari musicians in Jamaica.