BAD FRIDAY Trailer from Deborah Thomas on Vimeo.
The CARIBBEAN STUDIES AT NEW COLLEGE, U of T invites you to a film screening of..
BAD FRIDAY: RASTAFARI AFTER CORAL GARDENS (2011, DIR: Deborah A. Thomas and John L. Jackson, Jr.)
With Deborah Thomas, Director and author of Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica (Duke University Press, 2011)
For
many around the world, Jamaica conjures up images of pristine beach
vacations with a pulsating reggae soundtrack. The country, however, also
has one of the highest per capita murder rates in the world, and the
population is actively grappling with legacies of Western imperialism,
racial slavery, and political nationalism – the historical foundations
of contemporary violence in Jamaica and throughout the Americas. BAD
FRIDAY focuses on a community of Rastafarians in western Jamaica who
annually commemorate the 1963 Coral Gardens "incident," a moment just
after independence when the Jamaican government rounded up, jailed and
tortured hundreds of Rastafarians. It chronicles the history of violence
in Jamaica through the eyes of its most iconic community, and shows how
people use their recollections of past traumas to imagine new
possibilities for a collective future.
FRI MARCH 16th
WILLIAM DOO AUDITORIUM
45 Willcocks St
(Bloor & Spadina - Just S of Harbord, at the corner of Spadina & Willcocks on E side)
Time: 6:30 PM
WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE
For more info visit:
http://badfridaythemovie.com/
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