...Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann Given the importance of literature to various forms of social cohesion, it is not surprising that the European and US empires that have dominated the geopolitical existence of the insular Caribbean have not readily invested in literary infrastructure throughout...

... this approach, the essay uncovers the archival logic behind “Freak Letters” and recreates the woman’s milieu, highlighting her mobility and diasporic connections. It argues that this woman’s embodied intervention simultaneously confirms and challenges the narratives of US empire that sexualized and limited her...

... US empire trauma In the May–June 1984 issue of The Black Scholar , poets from the Caribbean and the United States gathered to respond to the tragic ending of the Grenada Revolution in October 1983. Almost all seven of the poems in the issue’s special section “Grenada: The Poets Respond...

... Laura Doyle terms the “Atlantic novel,” a tradition linking Anglo-Atlantic and African-Atlantic writing, in which a liberty plot crosses the Atlantic Ocean to enact a dialectic of freedom and empire.14 It made use of sentimentalism that located emotion in the individual...

...Charisse Burden-Stelly This essay offers a critical engagement with historian Peter James Hudson’s groundbreaking text Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean . It begins with an analysis of Hudson’s detailed account of the entanglements of the internationalization of US banking...

... the torture photographs not for what they reveal, but for what they conceal and what they allow us to forget about the now established but concealed circuits of global imperial violence. Small Axe Incorporated 2009 Paranoid Empire: Specters from Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib Anne McClintock...

... of the political fortunes of black male leadership in the Caribbean as potentially thwarted by female authority, ancestral shame, and the objectification of tourist photography offers a useful way of conceptualizing the black radical tradition in terms of vulnerability as a condition to be avoided. Moreover...

.... In my research on the history of US empire in the Caribbean, I came across an unforgettable story about how the United States tried and failed to establish a military base at Samaná Bay, in the Dominican Republic. This story resonates strongly, in my view, with Ramírez’s framework for thinking through...

... treading on the question of Garvey’s “black fascism,” to use Paul Gilroy’s phrase. According to Gilroy, Garvey fetishized race as compensation for lack of full access to nationality; therefore, his desire to own blackness as property through cultural displays of empire must be read accordingly.12...

... treading on the question of Garvey’s “black fascism,” to use Paul Gilroy’s phrase. According to Gilroy, Garvey fetishized race as compensation for lack of full access to nationality; therefore, his desire to own blackness as property through cultural displays of empire must be read accordingly.12...

... treading on the question of Garvey’s “black fascism,” to use Paul Gilroy’s phrase. According to Gilroy, Garvey fetishized race as compensation for lack of full access to nationality; therefore, his desire to own blackness as property through cultural displays of empire must be read accordingly.12...

... treading on the question of Garvey’s “black fascism,” to use Paul Gilroy’s phrase. According to Gilroy, Garvey fetishized race as compensation for lack of full access to nationality; therefore, his desire to own blackness as property through cultural displays of empire must be read accordingly.12...

... the untranslatable and away from the premium on circulation in world literature resonates with a long-standing Caribbean valorization of the local as an alternative to a neocolonial transparency. 23 A Hispanic Caribbean form of translation engages in transculturation from within the seat of the US empire...

... uncovering National City Bank’s control of US foreign policy. 12 Briggs and his colleagues were clearly influenced by Johnson’s analysis of US empire, and they became Communists while they were writing about Haiti. Throughout late 1920, Briggs (as well as Domingo and Hubert Harrison) reprinted...

... connection to what is visible and legible to whom —in relation to the Dominican case inspires Gonzalez Seligmann to consider how it might help us understand ambivalent forms of resistance throughout the extended Caribbean. Elucidating one of my main interventions, she writes, “The relationship to empire...

...,” in Ramón Grosfoguel, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, and José David Saldivar, eds., Latino/as in the World-System: Decolonization Struggles in the Twenty-First-Century US Empire (London: Routledge, 2015), 81–94; and Nelson Maldonado-Torres, “Outline of Ten Theses on Coloniality and Decoloniality,” Fondation...

... States, as C. L. R. James captured when he described the Caribbean as “now an American sea,” an extension of the US empire. 18 Rather than Lamming's sense of the United States as part of a Caribbean island-system, instead the island is now a continental annex rather than a landmass of equal parity...

... that the slave could become free, Carby’s “Child of Empire” comes after those freedoms have been struggled for, since the promises were left, many times, unfulfilled—through abolition, US Reconstruction, in postcolonial states—in what David Scott has discussed as the “bankruptcy...

... capitalism. Of these terms, war jumped out at me. “Fomenting war in Latin America and the Carib-bean was an invaluable tool used by Wall Street,” Burden-Stelly writes. 30 War is not a term that I explicitly use in Bankers and Empire . Instead, I largely defer to the diplomatic euphemisms occupation...

... HHallall plantation colonies) and naturalized.” Th e term “indenture” was, she argues, forged “in the crucible of empire,” but historians have failed to recognize this and have continued to use it as if it were a neutral description (hence her critique of my uncritical use of the debates over labor...