Popular commemorative street art has proliferated alongside the thousands of victims of urban wars of the last 40 years in Jamaican working-class communities. This presentation examines how these murals respond to the emergence and circulation of gendered images of “the violent Jamaican.” What do these memorialization practices have to teach about the ways racialized urban subjects simultaneously justify and resist the ideologies that justify urban violence in the context of neoliberal globalization?
Letters from the Dead
– 2006.03.20Posted in: General
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