A Limitation of Jamaica's Brown Middle-Class Nationalist Saga: Race-ing and Erasing Blackness in V. S. Reid's New Day
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Jamaican writer Victor Stafford Reid's New Day (1949) refutes racist narratives of British colonialism in contemporary Jamaican literature and provides an alternative Jamaican narrative with Jamaican patois. The novel details a seventy-nine-year-long genealogy of the struggle and rise of the brown creole class from the 1865 Morant Bay Rebellion to the tumultuous 1960s which led Jamaica to nationhood in the New Constitution in 1944. It also subtly critiques Jamaican nationalism's ethical and racial limitations as the leading class predominantly consists of the brown creole class with sustainable wealth and proximity to the white upper class. Reid questions and criticizes the socio-political limitations of brown-centered ideologies and their entanglement within political movements for self-governance through his presentation of the failed and flawed relationships and intimacies between characters in the story. In this essay, I argue that reading the different dynamics of intimacies among characters in New Day reveals that the form of radical Jamaican brownness, or the face of Jamaican nationalism, is reproductively, culturally, and economically insistent on inhabiting whiteness and maintaining near-whiteness as their racial and political identity.
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Jamaican writer Victor Stafford Reid's New Day (1949) refutes racist narratives of British colonialism in contemporary Jamaican literature and provides an alternative Jamaican narrative with Jamaican patois. The novel details a seventy-nine-year-long genealogy of the struggle and rise of the brown creole class from the 1865 Morant Bay Rebellion to the tumultuous 1960s which led Jamaica to nationhood in the New Constitution in 1944. It also subtly critiques Jamaican nationalism's ethical and racial limitations as the leading class predominantly consists of the brown creole class with sustainable wealth and proximity to the white upper class. Reid questions and criticizes the socio-political limitations of brown-centered ideologies and their entanglement within political movements for self-governance through his presentation of the failed and flawed relationships and intimacies between characters in the story. In this essay, I argue that reading the different dynamics of intimacies among characters in New Day reveals that the form of radical Jamaican brownness, or the face of Jamaican nationalism, is reproductively, culturally, and economically insistent on inhabiting whiteness and maintaining near-whiteness as their racial and political identity.
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