The Myth of Independence: Middle Class Politics and Non-Mobilization in Jamaica
The Myth of Independence: Middle Class Politics and Non-Mobilization in Jamaica
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独立的神话：牙买加的中产阶级政治和非动员
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1975
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L. Lindsay
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L. Lindsay
这是一篇开创性文章的再版，首次写于20世纪70年代初，1975年由西印度群岛大学牙买加莫纳校区出版。“独立的神话”是一系列“神话”文章中的第一篇，这些文章试图解决牙买加政治进程基础的神话方面，并推而广之，其版本的威斯敏斯特民主。独立神话通过观察当时的主要政治精英诺曼·曼利、亚历山大·布斯塔曼特等人，对这个前英国殖民地的独立进程进行了尖锐的批评。这篇文章主要关注的是精英拉拢运动的性质，它最终没有消除殖民主义的心理创伤，而是进一步将黑人劣等和白色/帝国优越的概念嵌入新独立国家的价值体系。
This is a reprint of a seminal essay first written in the early 1970s and published in 1975 by the University of the West Indies, Mona campus, Jamaica. “Myth of Independence” is the first among a series of “Myth” essays which sought to address the mythological aspects of the foundation of the Jamaican political process and by extension, its version of Westminster democracy. Myth of independence gives a biting critique of the unfolding of independence of this former British colony by looking at its major political elites at that time, Norman Manley, Alexander Bustamante, among others. The article’s major concern is the nature of elite co-optation of the movement which in the end did not remove the psychological scars of colonialism, rather it further embedded notions of black inferior and white/imperial superiority into the value systems of the newly independent nation.