Caribbean Feminisms: A Reading List

Images in collage (top, from left to right): Dr. Gloria I. Joseph; Edwidge Danticat; Sara Gómez; Audre Lorde; Una Marson; Andaiye; Jamaica Kincaid; Maryse Condé; June Jordan: Nancy Morejón; and Claudia Jones.

By Nana Afua Y. Brantuo and Dr. Andrea N. Baldwin

Check out our reading list from our Caribbean Feminisms Series.

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Black Women Radicals’ “Caribbean Feminisms Series” is a four-part online event series paying homage to historical and contemporary Caribbean feminisms and feminists. The series is curated and hosted by educators, organizers, and scholars, Nana Brantuo and Dr. Andrea N. Baldwin.

Caribbean feminists and feminisms are central and essential to national, regional, and global movements - actively “deconstructing the categories of ‘race’, ‘ethnicity’ and ‘nation’ and exposing their gendered character” (Reddock, 2007) and mobilizing for societal transformation. This series is a homage to the pioneering work of feminists such as Guyanese grassroots activist Andaiye; Grendian feminist scholar Eudine Barriteau; Jamaican diplomat Lucille M. Mair; Curaçaoan cultural anthropologist Rose Mary Allen; and Tobagonian Calypsonian Calypso Rose as well as space for engaging with contemporary Caribbean feminist scholars, activists, and artists across generations, borders, and languages.

Past Online Webinars in the Caribbean Feminisms Series

Digital Caribbean Feminisms

The first installment of our “Caribbean Feminisms Series” was on “Digital Caribbean Feminisms.” Panelists for this event included: Kenita Placide, Zainab Floyd, Dr. Angelique V. Nixon, and Dr. Tonya Haynes. For Caribbean feminists, the incorporation and usage of the internet for space and placemaking has been “multigenerational, multiethnic, transnational, and Pan-Caribbean” (Haynes, 2016). For Caribbean feminst activists, archivists, artists, and scholars, digital space has played a key role in archiving & curation, knowledge production and sharing, and organizing and mobilizing and has facilitated increased amplification of the voices, experiences, and perspectives of Caribbean women, girls, femmes, gender non-conforming and non-binary folx within and across the region. Joined by feminists across the region and Diaspora, this event will deepen and expand our understanding of digital Caribbean feminisms and will touch on its evolution and impact, the critical role of digitally in grassroots Caribbean feminist activism and knowledge production, the digital divide in the Caribbean, and the future of Caribbean feminisms in digital spaces particularly in the time of COVID 19.

Caribbean Women & Knowledge Production

Our second installment of our “Caribbean Feminisms Series” was on “Caribbean Women & Knowledge Production”, which was held on Thursday, December 3rd at 4:30 PM EST on Zoom. Panelists for this included: Dr. Fatimah Jackson-Best, Lysanne Charles, and Kesewa John. Our Caribbean Feminism Series is curated by Nana Brantuo and Dr. Andrea N. Baldwin. About this event: For centuries, Caribbean women have been creators, retainers, and guardians of knowledge across modes, mediums, borders, and terrains. Women such as Queen Nanny of the Maroons, Mariana Grajales Cuello, Mary Prince, Sarah "Sally" Bassett, Madeleine Sylvain-Bouchereau, Louise Bennett, Andaiye, Jeanne Henriquez, Paulette Nardal, Jeanne Nardal, and Suzanne Césaire exist within a rich genealogy and history of knowledge production and cultural transformation within the region and throughout the world. Join us in conversation with women from across the region and throughout the Caribbean Diaspora on the necessity of historicizing and amplifying Caribbean women’s knowledge production and intellectualism, past and present.

In Honor of Andaiye: Caribbean Feminist Organizing and Advocacy

“While we need organizing that is anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist, our organizing must also be anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic, anti-transphobic and against all forms of exploitation, subordination and discrimination...Similarly, while we need organizing against the forms of exploitation, subordination and discrimination that the left has traditionally ignored or downplayed, our organizing must also be anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist.” –– Andaiye, 2009, Gender, Race, and Class: A Perspective on the Contemporary Caribbean Struggle, 2009 Patrick Emmanuel Memorial Lecture (UWI Cave Hill). In honor of Guyanese feminist organizer, educator, and activist Andaiye, Black Women Radicals hosted "In Honor of Andaiye: Caribbean Feminist Advocacy and Organizing" on Thursday, February 25, 2021. The third installment of our Caribbean Feminisms Series, we brought together Caribbean feminist organizers, researchers, and advocates to discuss the current state and future of regional and Diasporic gender-based organizing and advocacy against intersecting and overlapping oppressions. Our panelists for this event included Renae Green, Dr. Amarilys Estrella, and Dr. Mamyrah Dougé-Prosper.

Caribbean Feminisms Reading List

Videos  

• Caribbean Feminisms on the Page: Edwidge Danticat and Victoria Brown (Barnard Center for Research on Women)

• Caribbean Insight - Louise Bennett Performance 

• Caribbean Women and Knowledge Production (Black Women Radicals) 

• Claudia Jones: A Right to be Radical featuring Dr. Carole Boyce Davies (Claudia Jones School for Political Education and Black Women Radicals)

• Critical Caribbean Feminisms: Erna Brodber and Nicole Dennis-Benn (Barnard Center for Research on Women) 

• Critical Caribbean Feminisms: Staceyann Chin and Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Barnard Center for Research on Women)

• Digital Caribbean Feminisms (Black Women Radicals) 

• Discussion with Afro-Cuban Filmmaker Gloria Rolando on Film 1912: Breaking the Silence (UNC Sonja Haynes Stone Center)

• Gloria Joseph and Naomi Jackson: Caribbean Feminisms on the Page (Barnard Center for Research on Women)

• Gloria Rolando Interview with Amherst Media 

• Haïtiennes: Portraits de femmes militantes

• In Honor of Andaiye: A Conversation on Caribbean Feminist Organizing and Advocacy (Black Women Radicals) 

• Jamaica Kincaid and Tiphanie Yanique: Caribbean Feminisms on the Page (Barnard Center for Research on Women)

• Official YouTube Page of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, University of West Indies St. Augustine Unit

• Reclaiming the Erotic Power of Black Women by Annecka Marshall

• Sara Gómez: An Afro-Cuban Filmmaker (Documentary)

Reports 

• Advancing domestic workers’ rights through cooperatives in Trinidad and Tobago: An ILO, NUDE and SWCC initiative

• Afrodescendent Women In Latin America And The Caribbean: Debts Of Equality (CEPAL)

• Bridging Gender Data Gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean: Technical Report (Open Data Watch) 

• Closed for Business: Barriers to Women's Entrepreneurship by Caribbean Policy Research Institute

• Coming to Terms: The Social Costs of Unequal Access to Safe Abortions by Caribbean Policy Research Institute

• Domestic Workers In Latin America And The Caribbean During The Covid-19 Crisis (Un Women, ILO, ECLAC) 

• Domestic Workers In The Caribbean : A Reference Handbook (International Labour Organization) 

• Enabling Caribbean Women's Farmers' Participation in the Green Economy (Caribbean Policy Development Center)  

• Gender at Work in the Caribbean: Synthesis Report for Five Countries (International Labor Organization) 

• Gender Aware Policy Making in the Caribbean: A Manual (Caribbean Policy Development Center) 

• Low Labour Productivity And Unpaid Care Work by Caribbean Policy Research Institute

• Regional Gender Agenda - The Santiago Commitment (ECLAC, Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean) 

• Sexual and Reproductive Health in the English Speaking Caribbean: A Study of Maternal Mortality, Abortion and Health Sector Reform in Barbados, Jamaica, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago by DAWN 

• The Economic and Societal Costs of Sexuality Based Discrimination in Jamaica by Caribbean Policy Research Institute

• The Transgender and Non-Conforming National Health Strategy for Jamaica by TransWave Jamaica 

• Twenty-one Lessons: Preventing Domestic Violence In The Caribbean by Adele D. Jones 

• Workplace Conversation Series Report by TransWave Jamaica 

Curated Blogs/Websites/Exhibits/Repositories/Archives 

• A Black Latina Reading List: Social distancing readings by or about Black Latinas (Black Latinas Know Collective) 

• A Conversation with Carole Boyce Davies, Yomaira Figueroa and Bedour Alagraa (Cite Black Women)

• Afro-Caribbean Women Of Post-Colonialism Through The Practice Of Art (Black Women Radicals) 

• Art as Caribbean Feminist Practice, Introduction and Portfolio

• Barrel Children: Migration & Family Separation 

• Caribbean Feminisms: Interventions In Scholarship, Art, And Activism Across The Region (Scholar & Feminist Online) 

• Caribbean Queer Visualities, curated by David Scott, Erica Moiah James, & Nijah Cunningham (Small Axe) 

• Caribbean Women in FIlm (Caribbean Film Database) 

• Caribbean Women’s Movements and Organizations (CUNY Digital Commons, The Digital Caribbean) 

• Creative Commess

• Feminist Conversations on Caribbean Life by CODE RED for gender justice!

• Feminitt

• History of the Women’s Movement in the Caribbean (CAFRA) 

• Intersect Antigua

• Life In Leggings: Caribbean Alliance Against Gender Based Violence

• Miss Lou Archives (National Library of Jamaica) 

• Rebel Women Lit | Caribbean Readers' Awards 2020

• Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain Papers

• The Caribbean Archive 

• The Legacy of Andaiye: A Conversation with Alissa Trotz and Nicole Burrowes (Cite Black Women)

• Theorizing Homophobias in the Caribbean | Presented by the Caribbean Region of the International Resource Network, edited by Rosamond S. King, Angelique V. Nixon, Colin Robinson, Natalie Bennett, and Vidyaratha Kissoon

• UWI St. Augustine, Institute for Gender and Development Studies | Making of Caribbean Feminisms 

  • Alma Jordan Collections 

  • Gender Policies 

  • Publications

  • Regional Groups and Organizations 

• West Indian Critic

• We’re Not New to This: Caribbean Feminism (WE Change) 

• Write It In Fire: Tributes to Michelle Cliff

Academic Journals (Special Volumes) 

• Callaloo, Volume 25 | The Neo-Slave Narrative Genre

• Caribbean Quarterly, Volume 34 (1-2) | Women In West Indian Literature 

• Caribbean Quarterly, Volume 34 (3-4) | Women in West Indian Literature II

• Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, Issue 12 | Gender and Anti-colonialism in the Interwar Caribbean, edited by Reena N. Goldthree and Natanya Duncan

• Caribbean Studies, Vol. 28 | Feminist Research and Action in the Caribbean

• Feminist Review, Volume 59 | Rethinking Caribbean difference

• Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies, Volume 42 | Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in the Caribbean: Transdisciplinary Engagements

• Journal of Haitian Studies, Vol. 7| A Special Issue on Edwidge Danticat

• Meridians, Volume 14 | African Descendant Feminisms in Latin America
  Part II: South and Central America and the Spanish-Speaking Caribbean

• Meridians, Volume 3 | Tribute to June Jordan 

• Sexuality & Culture - Volume 15(4) Special Issue on Sexuality in the Caribbean, edited by Karen Carpenter

• Small Axe, Volume 20 | Special Section On Sylvia Wynter’s Unpublished Manuscript, “Black Metamorphosis

• Small Axe, Volume 56 | Contemporary Dominican Gender and Sexualities Studies

• Small Axe, Volume 7 | Genders and Sexualities 

• Voices from Hispaniola: A Meridians Roundtable with Edwidge Danticat, Loida Maritza Perez, Myriam J. A. Chancy, and Nelly Rosario

• Voices from Hispaniola: A Meridians Roundtable with Edwidge Danticat, Loida Maritza Perez, Myriam J. A. Chancy, and Nelly Rosario

• Volume 3(2) | Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International
  

Academic Articles/Essays/Book Chapters/Encyclopedic Entries 

• Afrodescendant Women: A Race and Gender Intersectional Spiderweb by Ana Irma Rivera Lassén, Manuela Borzone, & Alexander Ponomareff

• Audre Lorde Now: Letter to Audre Lorde from the Future by Tito Mitjans Alayón

• A Guide to Fiction by Caribbean Women Writers, from Caribbean Women Writers: Fiction in English, edited by Mary Conde and Thorunn Lonsdale

• A Political Manifesto for the Emancipation of Our Bodies Latin American and Caribbean Thirteenth Feminist Encounter for Latin America (EFLAC XIII); Lima, Peru; November 22–25, 2014 

• Bajan Queens, Nebulous Scenes: Sexual Diversity in Barbados. By David Murray 

• Bennett on Bennett by Louise Bennett and Dennis Scott

• Between Despair and Hope: Women and Violence in Contemporary Guyana by D. Alissa Trotz

• Beyond the Great Camouflage: Haiti in Suzanne Césaire's Politics and Poetics of Liberation by Annette K Joseph-Gabriel

• Black Latina Girlhood Poetics of the Body: Church, Sexuality and Dispossession by Omaris Z. Zamora

• Black Latina Womanhood: From Latinx Fragility to Empowerment and Social Justice Praxis by Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores, Hilda Lloréns, Nancy López, Maritza Quiñones, on behalf of Black Latinas Know Collective

• Black Latinx Encuentros: Embodied Knowledge and Reciprocal Forms of Knowledge Sharing [Embodying Reciprocity Series] by Amarilys Estrella and Meryleen Mena

• Burial Rites, Women’s Rights: Death and Feminism in Haiti, 1925-1938 — Grace Sanders Johnson

• Calypso Rose: Advocate for a Feminist Perspective by Gelien Matthews

• Caribbean Queen: Afro-Barbadian Femininity and Alison Hinds Performing the Erotic at Home and Abroad by Lia T. Bascomb 

• Caribbean Review of Gender Studies (Official Journal Website) 

• Caribbean Women and the Ethiopian Solidarity Campaign by Dr. Kesewa John

• Caribbean Women Writers and the Politics of Style: A Case for Literary Anancyism by Ifeona Fulani

• Caring for those we care about:  The alienating power of love in Anglophone Caribbean middle class, heterosexual relationships by Andrea Baldwin 

• Coicou-Madiou, Léonie by Mamyrah Dougé-Prosper

• Colimon-Hall, Marie-Thérèse by Danielle Legros Georges

• Counting Women's Caring Work: An Interview with Andaiye

• Decolonizing Reproductive Labor: Caribbean Women, Migration, and Domestic Work in the Global Economy by Charmaine Crawford

• Diasporic Transnationalism, Gender, and Education by Kimberly Williams Brown

• Dutch Caribbean Women’s Literary Thought: Activism through Linguistic and Cosmopolitan Multiplicity by Florencia V. Cornet 

• Dyasporic Appetites and Longings: An Interview with Edwidge Danticat by Nancy Raquel Mirabal, Edwidge Danticat

• Embodied Theories: Local Knowledge(s), Community Organizing, and Feminist Methodologies in Caribbean Sexuality Studies by Angelique V. Nixon and Rosamond S. King

• Euzhan Palcy: Creative Dissent, Artistic Reckoning by Trica Danielle Keaton

• Expanding the Dialogues: Afro-Latinx Feminisms by Petra Rivera-Rideau, Omaris Z. Zamora, Sandy Plácido. & Dixa Ramirez

• Feminist pedagogy and social change: the impact of the caribbean institute in gender and development by Charmaine Crawford & Fatimah Jackson-Best

• Forging Relational Difference: Racial Gendered Violence and Dispossession in Guyana by Shanya Cordis

• From Trigueñita to Afro-Puerto Rican: Intersections of the Racialized, Gendered, and Sexualized Body in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Mainland by Maritza Quiñones Rivera

• Gender Politics in Caribbean Popular Music: Consumer Perspectives and Academic Interpretation by Peter Manuel 

• Institute for Gender and Development Studies, University of West Indies (Publications Website) 

• Interrogating Approaches to Caribbean Feminist Thought by Tonya Haynes 

• June Givanni’s Pan-African Cinema Archive: A Diasporic Feminist Dwelling Space by Aditi Jaganathan, Sarita Malik, & June Givanni

• Louise Langdon Norton Little, Mother of Malcolm X by Merle Collins

• Love and Anxiety: Gender Negotiations   in Chutney-Soca Lyrics in Trinidad by Aisha Mohammed 

• Mapping Caribbean Cyberfeminisms by Tonya Haynes

• Central America and the Spanish-Speaking Caribbean

• Morejon's Poetic "Persona": Representations of Pan-Caribbean Women by Lesley Feracho

• Navigating the Academy in the Post-Diaspora: #Afro-Caribbean Feminism and the Intellectual and Emotional Labour Needed to Transgress by Saran Stewart

• Negotiating Gender, Citizenship and Nationhood through Universal Adult Suffrage in Curaçao — Rose Mary Allen

• Nou pa gen vizibilite: Haitian Girlhood beyond the Logics of Visibility by Régine Michelle Jean-Charles 

• Occupied Thoroughfares: Haitian Women, Public Space, and the United States Occupation, 1915–1924 by Grace L. Sanders Johnson

• One Sustained Moment:The Constant Re-creation of Caribbean Sexualities by Rosamond S. King

• On Tambourines, Hashtags and ReRooting / ReRouting Survivor Voice in Caribbean Feminist Movement Building by Rochelle McFee

• Our Pussy, Our Prerogative: Afro-Caribbean Women’s Oppression, Resistance, and Sexual Liberation by Geryln Murrell 

• Papa, Patriarchy, and Power: Snapshots of a Good Haitian Girl, Feminism, & Dyasporic Dreams by Gina Athena Ulysse

• Performance and the Gendered Body in Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl" and Oonya Kempadoo's Buxton Spice by Carol Bailey

• Performing Gender in Trinidad Calypso by Hope Munro Smith

• Policing femininity, affirming masculinity: relationship violence, control and spatial limitation by Halimah A.F. DeShong

• Queering Feminist Approaches to Gender-based Violence in the Anglophone Caribbean by Tonya Haynes & Halimah A. F. DeShong

• Reassessing Caribbean Migration:  Love, Power and (Re)Building in the Diaspora by Andrea Baldwin &  Natasha K. Mortley

• Reconfigurations of Caribbean History: Michelle Cliff's Rebel Women by Jennifer Thorington Springer

• Red Thread’s Research: An Interview with Andaiye. CRGS, no. 7, ed. Kamala Kempadoo, Halimah DeShong, and Charmaine Crawford 

• Report from the Bahamas, 1982 by June Jordan

• Rude Girl, Big Woman: Power and Play in Representations of Caribbean Women by Lia T. Bascomb

• Should We Still Hope? Gender Policy, Social Justice, and Affect in the Caribbean by Michelle V Rowley

• Size Matters: Figuring Gender in the (Black) Jamaican Nation by Winnifred Brown-Glaude

• Solidarity Economy Praxis in Limonade: Reintellecting Woman as Subject by Mamyrah A. Dougé-Prosper

• Stratification Economics and Grassroots Development: The Case of Low–Income Black Women Workers in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic by Cruz Caridad Bueno 

• The Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action (CAFRA) | Documents and Publications 

• The Dance Chose Me: Womanist Reflections on Bèlè Performance in Contemporary Martinique by Camee Maddox-Wingfield

• The Feminist Movement in Haiti by Madeleine G. Sylvain 

• The International Engagements of Working-Class Jamaican Women: Listening to Louise Bennett and Her Routes Women by Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo

• The Language of Violence in the Caribbean: A Decolonial Feminist Analysis by Halimah A F DeShong

• The Legacy Of Haitian Feminist Paulette Poujol Oriol by Gina Athena Ulysse and Robert Berrouët-Oriol

• The Ligue Feminine d'Action Sociale: An Interview with Paulette Poujol Oriol by Chantalle F. Verna and Paulette Poujol Oriol

• The Most Caribbean of Stories by Maya Doig-Acuña

• To Be a Black Woman, a Lesbian, and an Afro-Feminist in Cuba Today by Norma R. Guillard Limonta

• Tourism in Transnational Places: Dominican Sex Workers and German Sex Tourists Imagine One Another by Denise Brennan

• Troubling our intersections: A Caribbean feminist methodology as resistance approach by Andrea N. Baldwin and Marva Cossy

• Una Marson: Black Nationalist and Feminist Writer by Honor Ford-Smith

• Understanding fatness: Jamaican women’s constructions of health by Claudia Barned & Kieran O’Doherty

• Whose Time Is It? Gender and Humanism in Contemporary Caribbean Feminist Advocacy by Michelle V. Rowley

• Why Dominican Feminism Moved to the Right: Class, Colour and Women's Activism in the Dominican Republic, 1880s–1940s by April J. Mayes

• Witchcrafts of Color: Suzanne Césaire, Mayotte Capécia, and the Shapeshifting Doudou in Vichy Martinique

• Woman Out of Place: Portia Simpson-Miller and Middle Class Politics in Jamaica, in Black Women in Politics: Demanding Citizenship, Challenging Power, and Seeking Justice by Maziki Thame

• Women Making Freedom: Rethinking Gender in Caribbean Intra-Regional Migration from a Curaçaoan Perspective by Rose Mary Allen 

• Women’s citizenship in the democracies of the Americas: The English-speaking Caribbean by Rawwida Baksh and Linnette Vassell

• ‘But most of all mi love me browning’: The Emergence in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Jamaica of the Mulatto Woman as the Desired by Patricia Mohammed 

• ‘This is the Age of Woman’: Black Feminism and Black Internationalism in the Works of Una Marson, 1928-1938 by Imaobong D. Umoren

• “Black” Radicalism in Haiti and the Disorderly Feminine: The Case of Marie Vieux Chauvet by Kaiama L. Glover

• “I’m So Proud to Be Your Queen”: Alison Hinds and Queenliness as a Diasporic Resource by Lia T. Bascomb

• “Maria Liberia-Peters,” by Florencia V. Cornet, in Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography

• “Roll It Gal”: Alison Hinds, Female Empowerment, and Calypso by Jennifer Thorington Springer

• “Tuck in Yuh Belly”: Imperatives of Female Slenderness in Jamaican Dancehall Music by Andrea E. Shaw 

• “We're Going to Leave You for Last, Because of How You Are”: Transgender Women's Experiences of Gender-Based Violence in Healthcare, Education, and Police Encounters in Latin America and the Caribbean by Michele Lanham, Kathleen Ridgeway, Robyn Dayton, Britany M. Castillo, Claire Brennan, Dirk A. Davis, Dadrina Emmanuel, Giuliana J. Morales, Clifford Cheririser, Brandy Rodriguez, Juana Cooke, Karin Santi, & Emily Evens

• “We Cannot Let Her Walk Away; We Got to Deal with it”: Addressing Women’s Access to Formal and Informal Supportive Resources for Maternal Depression in Barbados by Fatimah Jackson-Best

•  “You need to Press On”: Lillie Johnson as a Pragmatic Public Intellectual by Karen Flynn

Novels/Biographies/Autobiographies/Poetry Collections 

• Abeng by Michelle Cliff 

• Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid 

• A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid 

• Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat

• Brown Girl In The Ring By Nalo Hopkinson

• Crick, Crack, Monkey by Merle Hodge 

• HER(E): A Collection of Queer Caribbean LGBTI Affirming Poems and Short Stories by Ms Lysanne GoddessEye Charles 

• Here Comes the Sun: A Novel by Nicole Dennis-Benn

• Hérémakhonon by Maryse Condé

• Homing Instincts / Querencias by Nancy Morejón

• How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alverez

• How to Love a Jamaican: Stories by Alexia Arthurs

• I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé

• Jackie Kay, Merle Collins, Grace Nichols By Jackie Kay, Merle Collins, Grace Nichols 

• Krick? Krack! by Edwidge Danticat

• Looking Within/Mirar adentro: Selected Poems/Poemas escogidos, 1954-2000 by Nancy Morejón

• Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Triptych by Marie Vieux-Chauvet

• Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid 

• Praises & Offenses: Three Women Poets from the Dominican Republic Translated by Judith Kerman

• Reyita: The Life of a Black Cuban Woman in the Twentieth Century 

• Selected Poems by Una Marson

• The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat

• The Great Camouflage: Writings of Dissent (1941-1945) by Suzanne Césaire

• The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave by Mary Prince 

• The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir by Staceyann Chin

• The Point Is to Change the World: Selected Writings of Andaiye, edited by Alissa Trotz 

• Una Marson by Lisa Tomlinson

• Wonderful adventures of Mrs. Seacole in many lands by Mary Seacole

• Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde 

Scholarly/Academic Books 

• Afrocubanas: History, Thought, And Cultural Practices, edited By Devyn Spence Benson; Daisy Rubiera Castillo And Inés María Martiatu Terry , Translated By Karina Alma

• A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655-1844 by Lucille Mair

• A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery & Resistance by Stella Dadzie

• A nation of women (A Nation of Women / Mi Opinión Sobre Las Libertades, Derechos Y Deberes de la Mujer: An Early Feminist Speaks Out) by Luisa Capetillo

• A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being by Kaiama L. Glover 

• As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas edited by Erica L. Ball, Tatiana Seijas, Terri L. Snyder

• Beyond Homophobia: Centring LGBTQ Experiences in the Anglophone Caribbean, edited by Moji Anderson and Erin C. MacLeod

• Beyond Negritude: Essays from Woman in the City by Paulette Nardal, Translation & Introduction by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting

• Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean: Reproductive Politics and Practice on Four Islands, 1930–1970 by Nicole C. Bourbonnais

• Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality, 1848-2016, edited Félix Germain and Silyane Larcher

• Black Women: Bringing It All Back Home by Margaret Prescod 

• Black Women, Citizenship, And The Making Of Modern Cuba by Takkara K. Brunson (Coming June 2021) 

• Black Women, Writing and Identity: Migrations of the Subject by Carole Boyce Davies 

• Caribbean Women Writers, edited by S.Cudjoe

• Carnival Is Woman: Feminism and Performance in Caribbean Mas, edited by Frances Henry & Dwaine Plaza

• Citizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom by Mimi Sheller

• Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment, edited by Carole Boyce Davies 

• Comrade Sister: Caribbean Feminist Revisions of the Grenada Revolution by Laurie R. Lambert

• Confronting Power, Theorizing Gender: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in the Caribbean, edited by V. Eudine Barriteau

• Cultural Conundrums: Gender, Race, Nation, And The Making Of Caribbean Cultural Politics by Natasha Barnes

• Dancehall: A Reader on Jamaican Music and Culture, edited by Sonjah Stanley Niaah

• Daughters of Caliban: Caribbean Women in the Twentieth Century Paperback – June 22, 1997, edited by Consuelo Lopez Springfield

• Daughters of the Diaspora - Afra-Hispanic Writers, edited by Miriam DeCosta-Willis

• Daughters of the Stone: A Novelby Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa

• Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature by Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez

• Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importers, A Haitian Anthropologist And Self-making In Jamaica by Gina A. Ulysse

• Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean By Lyndon K. Gill

• Feminist Advocacy and Gender Equity in the Anglophone Caribbean: Envisioning a Politics of Coalition by Michelle V. Rowley

• From Sugar to Revolution: Women’s Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic by Myriam J. A. Chancy 

• Gendered Realities: An Anthology of Essays in Caribbean Feminist Thought, edited by Patricia Mohammed

• Guarding Cultural Memory: Afro-Cuban Women in Literature and the Arts by Flora González Mandri

• Guyana Diaries: Women's Lives Across Difference By Kimberly D. Nettles

• Her True-true Name, edited By Pamela Mordecai Betty Wilson, Elizabeth Wilson, & Betty Wilson 

• Higglers in Kingston: Women's Informal Work in Jamaica by Winnifred Brown-Glaude

• Inna di Dancehall: Popular Culture and the Politics of Identity in Jamaica by Donna Hope 

• Interrogating Caribbean Masculinities: Theoretical and Empirical Analyses, edited by Rhodda Reddock 

• Interweaving Tapestries of Sexuality & Culture in the Caribbean, edited by Karen Carpenter 

• Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities In The Caribbean Imagination By Rosamond S. King

• Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones by Carole Boyce Davies 

• Lionheart Gal: Life Stories of Jamaican Women by Honor Ford-Smith

• Love and Power: Caribbean Discourses on Gender, edited by V. Eudine Barriteau

• Marie Vieux Chauvet’s Theatres: Thought, Form, and Performance of Revolt, edited by Christian Flaugh and Lena Taub Robles

• Methodologies in Caribbean Research on Gender and Sexuality by Kamala Kempadoo and Halimah A. F. DeShong

• Miss Lou: Louise Bennett and Jamaican Culture by Mervyn Morris 

• Moving Beyond Borders: A History of Black Canadian and Caribbean Women in the Diaspora by Karen Flynn

• Negritude Women by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting

• Odious Caribbean Women and the Palpable Aesthetics of Transgression by Gladys M. Francis

• Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles, edited by Thomas Glave 

• Out of the Kumbla: Caribbean Women Writers, edited by Carole Boyce Davies

• Queen of the Virgin: Pageantry and Black Womanhood in the Caribbeanby M. Cynthia Oliver

• Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire by Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel

• Reproducing the British Caribbean: Sex, Gender, and Population Politics after Slavery by Juanita De Barros

• Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture by Angelique Dixon

• Romance with Voluptuousness: Caribbean Women and Thick Bodies in the United States by Kamille Gentles-Peart

• Searching for Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile by Myriam J. A. Chancy 

• Sex, Power, and Taboo: Gender and HIV in the Caribbean and Beyond 

• Sex and the Citizen: Interrogating the Caribbean, edited by Faith Smith

• Sexing the Caribbean: Gender, Race and Sexual Labor  by Kamala Kempadoo

• Sexuality, Social Exclusion & Human Rights: Vulnerability in the Caribbean Context of HIV 

• Slave women in Caribbean society, 1650-1838 by Barbara Bush

• Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large by Carolyn Cooper

• Stories from Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers at Home and Abroad by Jennifer Sparrow (Editor); Elizabeth Nunez (Editor)

• Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis, edited by Katherine McKittrick 

• The Cinema of Sara Gómez: Reframing Revolution, edited by Susan Lord and María Caridad Cumaná with Victor Fowler Calzada (coming July 2021) 

• The Queer Caribbean Speaks: Interviews with Writers, Artists, and Activists, edited by Kofi Omoniyi Sylvanus Campbell

• The Rebel Woman in the British West Indies during Slavery by Lucille Mathurin Mair

• What She Go Do: Women in Afro-Trinidadian Music By Hope Munro

• Women & Change in the Caribbean: A Pan-Caribbean Perspective by Janet Henshall Momsen

• Women in Grenadian History, 1783-1983 by Nicole Laurine Phillip

• Women In Jamaican Music By Heather Augustyn

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