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Orlando Patterson on his book on Jamaica, The Confounding Island
Season 1, Ep. 2
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Professor Patricia Williams of Northeastern University interviews Professor Orlando Patterson of Harvard University on his book The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament. The wide-ranging interview covers a variety of topics including slavery, social death, colonialism, post-colonialism, gender, and Afro-pessimism in both Jamaica and the United States.
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