...Lomarsh Roopnarine Two white ethnic minorities, Jews and Frenchies, are rather unusual in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands. The Jews arrived during the period of slavery and participated in the economic colonialism of islands, retaining a prominent position in the Virgin Islands. The Frenchies in St...

... in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, and has lived in New York, Trinidad and Tobago, and Toronto, Canada, where she studied creative writing and magazine journalism. A former newspaper editor, columnist, and magazine owner/publisher, with her work appearing in various publications, she also coauthored All...

...–35; Hilda Lloréns, “Imaging Disaster: Puerto Rico through the Eye of Hurricane María,” 136–56; Justin P. Dunnavant et al., “Assessing Heritage Resources in St. Croix Post–Hurricanes Irma and Maria,” 157–72; Tami Navarro, “‘After the Storms: Reflections on the US Virgin Islands,’” 173–80; and Angel...

... island with a large enslaved population. Denmark, unlike Sweden, did not leave its archives in the Caribbean but transported most of them to Copenhagen before the sale of the islands to the United States in 1917; these territories are now known as the US Virgin Islands. The Danish National Archives...

... had possession of these islands from 1733, until they were sold to the United States in 1917, coincidentally the same year that the United States granted citizenship to the inhabitants of Puerto Rico. The US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico therefore have a long shared and, for the most part, unexplored...

... known as the Office of Insular Affairs, and it administers American Samoa, Guam, the US Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Micronesia, Marshall Islands, and Palau. According to the Office of Insular Affairs, insular areas are defined as a jurisdiction that is neither a part of one of the several...

.../2012/09/197539.htm . 47 Ibid. 48 British-controlled areas—such as the Turks and Caicos, the British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, and the Cayman Islands—have had several major referendums in the last decade. Puerto Rico held plebiscites in 1993, 1998, and 2012. In 2004, the US Virgin Islands...

... Rico, the US Virgin Islands, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and the islands affiliated with the Kingdom of the Netherlands—Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao—she explains, “Same-sex intercourse is legal in these territories because it is legal in the countries that colonize them, creating a particular ‘freedom...

... and the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba; France and its Départements d’Outre Mer (DOM); the United Kingdom and its Caribbean Overseas Territories (COT); and the United States and Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. The Turks and Caicos, discussed below, are part of the United Kingdom, while...

... was born and raised in Puerto Rico or that he was profoundly shaped by his St. Croixian mother and the time he spent with her family in the Danish West Indies (the modern-day US Virgin Islands). There is a deep irony at play in this contrast of representations. Schomburg devoted himself to reconstructing...

... to the Virgin. Moreover, Rueda may also want to encourage us to think outside of heterosexual coupling. Colin Dayan reveals that Vodou’s Ezili, described as sexually ambiguous, can form “mystic marriage” with men or women: “Both sexes take on her attributes and accede to her mystique of femininity...

... on paper 26" × 40". 88 | SX24 • Pares & Nones (Evens & Odds) 9. Abraham Khouri, b. 1961, Santiago, Dominican Republic. Lives and works in Santiago. “Virgen Morena”, 2002 (Black Virgin). Digital...

... not be to insist that the survivors of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, still without adequate power, clean water, food, and shelter, are US citizens in order to make a case for why they should be treated with care. The survivors of the disaster should be treated with care because...

... around the centennial anniversary of the transfer of the Virgin Islands from Denmark to the United States ( fig. 7 ). Using the cut coral stones, I wanted to create a structure, a plinth, that highlighted the invisibilized labor and the foundations of colonial societies but that also signaled similar...

... of Jamaicans arriving from Cuba and children of Cubans arriving from Cuba; between US Virgin Islanders and Puerto Ricans who shared both colonial status and US citizenship; and more. How this all played out in practice—which divides hardened and which dissolved—we frankly do not know because the research has...

..., together with the Motto aaxexe PRIDE AND INDUSTRY as the same are in the painting herunto annexed more plainly depicted the whole to be borne and used for Our ISLAND OF BARBADOS and Seals or otherwise according to the Laws of Arms Despite the possessive pronoun...

.... 2277 Sunsplash, the US Virgin Islands’ Th anksgiving Jump-Up, and Nevis’s summer carni- val, which seeks to boost an ordinarily slow tourist season and to avoid losing tourists to Trinidad’s bigger carnival. Th e massive Caribbean diasporas to London, New York, and ssmallmall...

...Karen Jaime This essay attends to José E. Muñoz's influence on hispanophone Caribbean studies through the work of Dominican lesbian performance artist Rita Indiana. Jaime argues that in the music video “Da pa' lo' do',” or “There Is Enough for Both,” Indiana uses Muñoz's theory of disidentification...

..., and in the current rounds of colonial settlement through tax haven conditions in the realm of real estate. The essay shifts the language of anticolonial sensorial errancy to decolonial sensorial errancy to focus on the forms of “slow violence” of economic invasion/ control, the productivity of which presses us...

.... Was I Virgin or Accomplice? Wasn’t I getting used to it? Wasn’t I seeking my own pleasure. . . . He made me bleed fi ve times and I never cried out. My complicity has no limits Chauvet’s treatment of the terror infl icted on Rose and Claire exposes the eff ects...