...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...

... Rather than a return to colonial order under the flag of the US Virgin Islands, for Lorde it is the flowering leaves of the “banana tree unfurling its first pale green flag” that provide the first visible signs of recovery. 20 Even still, this experiment is short lived. US troops arrive...

... 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 recently completed the digitization of its more than three thousand linear feet...

... am guilty of obscuring a vital aspect of his life, namely, his Danish West Indian heritage. Diasporic Blackness , as I stated earlier, is not a definitive biography but an introduction. In a conversation I had with La Vaughn Belle in February 2019, we spoke about the erasure of the US Virgin Islands...

... inform the unusual political state of islands in “free association” with the United States (Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Palau), commonwealths (Northern Marianas, Puerto Rico), unincorporated organized (Guam, US Virgin Islands) and unincorporated unorganized (American Samoa, Wake...

.../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...

... that he was African American. Few recognize that he 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...

... 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...

... inflicting that suffering. It would 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...

... 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...

... 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...