Deborah A. Thomas uses the 2010 military and police incursion into the Kingston, Jamaica, Tivoli Gardens neighborhood as a point of departure for theorizing the roots of contemporary state violence in Jamaica and other post-plantation societies.

Preface  xi
Introduction. Humanness in the Wake of the Plantation  1
1. Doubt  22
Interlude I. Interrogating Imperialism  67
2. Expectancy  88
Interlude II. Naming Names  133
3. Paranoia  151
Coda. The End of the World as We Know It  207
Acknowledgments  223
Notes  229
References  269
Index  293