Political Life in the Wake of the PlantationIn 2010, Jamaican police and military forces entered the West Kingston community of Tivoli Gardens to apprehend Christopher Dudus Coke, who had been ordered for extradition to the United States on gun and drug running charges. By the time Coke was detained, somewhere between seventy five and two hundred civilians had been killed. In Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation, Deborah A. Thomas uses the incursion as a point of departure for