Cheddi Jagan (1918–1997) was the first major politician in the Anglophone Caribbean enraptured by Marxism-Leninism as espoused by the Soviet Union − the beacon for the radical transformation of colonies like his country, British Guiana (Guyana). Moreover, he sought to persuade US President Kennedy, that although this was the...
Melania Luisa Marte is the author of Plantains and Our Becoming (Tiny Reparations Books, August 2023). National Book Award–winning author Elizabeth Acevedo (author of Clap When You Land and Family Lore) calls Marte’s book “a full-throated war cry; both a request for anointment and the responding bendición.” The book...
Here is a call for papers for a special issue of In the Same Sea, a project that “advances the hypothesis that the Lesser Antilles were decisively shaped by inter-island connections that transformed separate islands into a common world of slavery and freedom.” This project, based at the University of Copenhagen, has received...
