Research Topics

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 […]

It is still widely believed that race and racism are not relevant to East Asia because of its perceived ethnic homogeneity. Yet race-based or ethnocentric violence—both physical and symbolic—are not only part of the social fabric in contemporary East Asia, but also rooted in the region’s modern history. On the other hand, complex issues of […]