ISSUE 13
African-Caribbean Women: Migration, Diaspora, Post-diaspora
Editors: Leith Dunn and Suzanne Scafe
June 2019 | Flyer
i–ii Contents
iii–vi Contributors
Editorial
1–16 African-Caribbean Women: Migration, Diaspora, Post-diaspora Leith Dunn and Suzanne Scafe
Peer Reviewed Essays
17–50 Un/belonging in Diasporic Cities: A Literary History of Caribbean Women in London and Toronto Andrea Davis
51–68 Black Women’s Activism and Organisation in Public Health: Struggles and Strategies for Better Health and Wellbeing Jenny Douglas
69–92 More than dollars and cents: Leveraging the multiple roles of Caribbean migrant women within the Diaspora Natasha Mortley
93–120 Gendered, Post-diasporic Mobilities and the Politics of Blackness in Zadie Smith’s Swing Time Suzanne Scafe
121–146 “Reshaping girlhood, reimagining womanhood”: The female child protagonist and the post-diasporic condition in Jamaican female-authored Children’s Literature Aisha Spencer
147– 172 Navigating the Academy in the Post Diaspora: Afro Caribbean Feminism and the intellectual and emotional labour needed to Transgress Saran Stewart
173–198 The Dark Skin I Live In: Deolonizing Racial Capitalism’s Aesthetic Hierarchies in the Diaspora Shirley Ann Tate
Gender Dialogue
199–216 Interrogating Diaspora: Lessons Learned from a Fictional Protagonist Paulette A. Ramsay
Book reviews
217–222 Book Review: Amanda Arbouin - Black British Graduates: Untold Stories Pauline Muir
223–230 Book review: Inside the Ivory Tower: Narratives of Women of Colour Surviving and Thriving in British Academia (2017) Edited by Deborah Gabriel and Shirley Anne Tate Nadena Doharty
Papers from the Nita Barrow Unit
231–232 Editors’ Note: on Papers from the Nita Barrow Unit Charmaine Crawford and Leigh-Ann Worrell
233–266 Can There be Love in The Caribbean? Christine Barrow
267–296 The Politics of Memory: Historicizing Caribbean Women’s Political Activism Verene A. Shepherd
297–330 What Love has to do with it? Sexuality, Intimacy and Power in Contemporary Caribbean Gender Relations Violet Eudine Barriteau
Biographies
331–340 Biographies