The Caribbean is the convergence point for a culture of modernity, forged through histories of slavery, indentureship, migration, genocide, and colonialism. This section offers critical reflections on how this culture of modernity has informed constructions of race and anti-Blackness in popular culture.
We have chosen the spectral as its organizing theme to track how anti-Blackness haunts, lingers, appears and disappears in popular culture and quotidian life. This section is thus dedicated to tracking the spectral qualities of racism and anti-Blackness, by mapping its visual, material, sonic, and cultural apparitions in the everyday.
Essays
The critical essays from performance artists, activists, and academics based in Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, and Puerto Rico theorize specters of racism as it a central part of the lived experiences of black people in the region. Using local vernaculars, each writer critically engages anti-Blackness in family life, social media, experiences of migration, Black organizing, and cultural practice.
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