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Q&A with Chelsea Schields, author of Offshore Attachments
Jun 10 2024
Offshore Attachments reveals how the contested management of sex and race transformed the Caribbean into a crucial site in the global oil economy. By the mid-twentieth century, the Dutch islands of Curaçao and Aruba housed the world’s largest oil refineries. To bolster this massive industrial experi
Q&A with Musab Younis, author of On the Scale of the World
Jan 25 2023
On the Scale of the World examines the reverberations of anticolonial ideas that spread across the Atlantic between the two world wars. From the 1920s to the 1940s, Black intellectuals in Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean established theories of colonialism and racism as structures that must be unde
Reflecting on the Anniversary of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico
Sep 20 2021
September 20th marks the four-year anniversary since Hurricane María made landfall in Puerto Rico and other regions of the Caribbean archipelago. The most impacted communities continue in their ongoing recovery and mutual support efforts, while confronting the resilience of colonialism, racial capit
In the Wake of Hurricane Dorian
Sep 25 2019
by Amelia Moore, author of Destination Anthropocene: Science and Tourism in the BahamasAs we all know by now, Hurricane Dorian
spun out of the Atlantic in early September and squarely hit the Bahamian islands
of Abaco and Grand Bahama, leaving an unfolding
disaster in its wake. Hurricanes a