Contributors

David Austin is author of Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal (2013), winner of the 2014 Casa de las Americas Prize, and Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution (2018), and editor of Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness (2018).Carolyn Cooper is professor emerita in the Department of Literatures in English at the University of the West Indies, Mona, where she taught for many years. She is the author of Noises in the Blood: Orality, Gender, and the “Vulgar” Body of Jamaican Popular Culture (1995) and Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large (2004) and editor of Global Reggae (2012). She initiated the establishment of the Reggae Studies Unit at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. In 2013 she was awarded the Order of Distinction, a national honor, for her work in education.Michaeline A. Crichlow is a historical sociologist whose interests and research are on development, decolonization, global Blackness, and the global Caribbean. At Duke University, she teaches in the Department of African and African American Studies and codirects the lab Climate Change, Decolonization, and Global Blackness, part of the Entanglement Series at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute. She is currently completing a book manuscript on Hispaniola tentatively titled “Vistas, Violence, and the Politics of Place.”Richard Drayton was born in Guyana and grew up in Barbados, where he was awarded the Barbados Jubilee Honour in 2016. He has taught at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, the University of Virginia, and, since 2009, King’s College London, where he is professor of imperial and global history. His essay here was completed while he was a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.Belinda Edmondson teaches literature in the Departments of English and Africana Studies at Rutgers University, Newark. She is author of several books on Caribbean literature, including Making Men: Gender, Literary Authority, and Women’s Writing in Caribbean Narrative (1999), Caribbean Middlebrow: Leisure Culture and the Middle Class (2009), and, most recently, Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance (2022). She is an elected member of the Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars.Jocelyn Sutton Franklin is assistant professor of French and francophone studies at Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina. Her work focuses on representations of White saviorism, motherhood, and sexuality in Haitian and Antillean literature. She is a founding member of the collective Kwazman Vwa, a series of online conversations with “ultra”-contemporary Caribbean writers. Her work has been featured in Karib and the Journal of Haitian Studies.Adom Getachew is professor of political science and race, diaspora, and indigeneity at the University of Chicago. She is author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (2019) and coeditor, with Jennifer Pitts, of W. E. B. Du Bois: International Thought (2022).Peter James Hudson is associate professor of African American studies and history at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is author of Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean (2017). His essays, reviews, and commentary have appeared in the Black Agenda Review, the Boston Review, Haiti Liberté, Small Axe, the Radical History Review, and Race and Class, among other venues.Barbara Lalla is professor emerita of the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, and for many years has taught and published on Caribbean language history, literary discourse, and the rereading of other canons. She is author of Postcolonialisms: Caribbean Rereading of Medieval English Discourse (2008); coauthor, with Jean D’Costa and Velma Pollard, of Caribbean Literary Discourse: Voice and Cultural Identity in the Anglophone Caribbean (2014); and coeditor, with Nicole Roberts, Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, and Valerie Youssef, of Methods in Caribbean Research: Literature, Discourse, Culture (2013). She is also author of the novels Arch of Fire (1998), Cascade (2010), Uncle Brother (2014), Grounds for Tenure (2017), and One Thousand Eyes (2021).Supriya M. Nair is professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is author of Caliban’s Curse: George Lamming and the Revisioning of History (1996) and Pathologies of Paradise: Caribbean Detours (2013); editor of Teaching Anglophone Caribbean Literature (2012); and coeditor, with Gaurav Desai, of Postcolonialisms: An Anthology of Cultural Theory and Criticism (2005). Her research and teaching interests include Caribbean, postcolonial, feminist, diaspora, environmental, and cultural studies.Heino Schmid (whose work appears on the covers of this issue) was born in 1976 in Nassau. He uses drawing, assemblage, collage, and film to drive his creative process of visual deconstruction and cultural analysis. He has exhibited throughout Europe and North America and works and currently lives in The Bahamas.David Scott teaches in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. He is author of, most recently, Irreparable Evil: An Essay in Moral and Reparatory History, set to be published in 2024.Natasha I. Shivji is a lecturer at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her work focuses on the political economy in Africa, the world history of the Indian Ocean area, and the intellectual histories of Africa. She was previously director of the Institute for Research in Intellectual Histories of Africa in Dar es Salaam and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge. She has taught at the University of Dar es Salaam and the University of Dodoma in Tanzania.D. Alissa Trotz is professor of Caribbean studies at New College and of women and gender studies at the University of Toronto. She is editor of The Point Is to Change the World: Selected Writings of Andaiye (2020), translated into the Portuguese by Dafne Melo as O importante é transformar o mundo: Textos escolhidos de Andaiye (2022). She is also editor of the weekly newspaper column In the Diaspora in the Stabroek News (Guyana).Tim Watson is professor of English at the University of Miami. He is author of Caribbean Culture and British Fiction in the Atlantic World (2008) and Culture Writing: Literature and Anthropology in the Midcentury Atlantic World (2018); and coeditor, with Evelyn O’Callaghan, of Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800–1920 (2021). He is currently writing “Mango: A Florida Cultural History,” to be published by the University Press of Florida.Nigel Westmaas is a researcher and public scholar and associate professor in the Department of Africana Studies at Hamilton College, New York. His research interests include social movements in Guyana and the Caribbean, archival research and projects, and the history and content of the newspaper press in Guyana.Kerry White is a PhD candidate in American culture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research interests include transgender studies in the Americas, ethnographic writing and practice, and Caribbean studies. Her dissertation project blurs ethnography, memoir, and testimonio to explore trans life histories between Cuba and the United States. She received a BA from Lewis and Clark College and an MA in Latin American studies from the University of Florida.Melanie White is assistant professor of Afro-Caribbean studies in the Department of African American Studies and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Georgetown University. Her research interests include hemispheric Black feminist politics, Black diasporic women’s art, and the histories, politics, and visual cultures of Black Latin America and the Caribbean. She is currently writing a book about Black and Afro-Indigenous women’s anticolonial performance, visual culture, and political organizing in the Miskitu Coast.

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