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Postnationalism Prefigured

Download or Read eBook Postnationalism Prefigured PDF written by Charles V. Carnegie and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Postnationalism Prefigured
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Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : 0813530555
ISBN-13 : 9780813530550
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Book excerpt: We do not consider it noteworthy when somebody moves three thousand miles from New York to Los Angeles. Yet we think that movement across borders requires a major degree of adjustment, and that an individual who migrates 750 miles from Haiti to Miami has done something extraordinary. Charles V. Carnegie suggests that to people from the Caribbean, migration is simply one of many ways to pursue a better future and to survive in a world over which they have little control Carnegie shows not only that the nation-state is an exhausted form of political organization, but that in the Caribbean the ideological and political reach of the nation-state has always been tenuous at best. Caribbean peoples, he suggests, live continually in breach of the nation-state configuration. Drawing both on his own experiences as a Jamaican-born anthropologist and on the examples provided by those who have always considered national borders as little more than artificial administrative nuisances, Carnegie investigates a fascinating spectrum of individuals, including Marcus Garvey, traders, black albinos, and Caribbean Ba'hais. If these people have not themselves developed a scholarly doctrine of transnationalism, they have, nevertheless, effectively lived its demand and prefigured a postnational life.


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