Sticky Colonial Criminal Laws
In: (2020) 75 University of Miami Review Caveat 58
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In: (2020) 75 University of Miami Review Caveat 58
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In: E Barriteau, A Cobley (eds), Enjoying Power, Eugenia Charles and Political Leadership in the Commonwealth Caribbean (UWI Press 2006)
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In: "Our Inherent Constitution" in Berry, Robinson (eds), Transitions in Caribbean Law: Law-Making, Constitutionalism and the Convergence of National and International Law (Caribbean Law Publishing, 2013) 249-275
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In: Du bois review: social science research on race, Band 10, Heft 2, S. 425-446
ISSN: 1742-0598
AbstractThis paper considers how a taxonomy of conjugality—marriage,common-law marriage, andvisiting relationships—emerged as a specialized vocabulary to apprehend and govern the postcolonial Caribbean. Although the metaphor of intersections does not fully capture the ways these categories relate to each other to produce social meaning, I employ an intersectional framework to offer a close reading of the routes through which these and other social differences and equivalences are produced as dimensions of citizenship in specific historical contexts, such as the period of decolonization and Caribbean nation-formation. In so doing, I illustrate how the categorization of intimate relationships codified a hierarchy based on intersections of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation, and established rough moral boundaries for a heterosexual Caribbean nation. The lives of working class Black women animate the categorization. I show how by centering these women in intimate relationship codes their sexuality is contained and patriarchy naturalized. In this paper, I suggest that we should mark the role intersectionality plays in constituting categories of intimate association, explore how these categories shape sentiments about belonging, and articulate the social costs of their instantiations.
In: (2012) 37 West Indian Law Journal 1
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In: Small axe: a journal of criticism, Band 24, S. 118-129
ISSN: 1534-6714
In: Small axe: a journal of criticism, Band 11, Heft 3, S. 118-129
ISSN: 1534-6714
This essay explores the expansion of Jacqui Alexander's earlier concept of erotic autonomy through the motif of the Sacred in her new book, and her articulation of what could be described as a Caribbean feminist ethic that demands radical self-determination exercised within self and community and a collectivized vision-making that is not circumscribed by feminist engagement with the state.
In: Race & class: a journal for black and third world liberation, Band 49, Heft 2, S. 118-124
ISSN: 1741-3125
The recent establishment of a Caribbean Court of Justice prompts reflection on the nature of legal regionalism in the Caribbean. This commentary explores the development of a regional identity around a shared legal system and the concept of `West Indian law', describing the forces underlying these processes and their contradictions.
In: The journal of negro education: JNE ;a Howard University quarterly review of issues incident to the education of black people, Band 59, Heft 2, S. 207
ISSN: 2167-6437
In: Small axe: a journal of criticism, Band 24, Heft 3, S. 65-80
ISSN: 1534-6714
In Jamaica in the 1940s and 1950s, prominent women and women's organizations led a notorious campaign to promote mass weddings. The campaign targeted working-class black Jamaicans living together in long-term heterosexual relationships and was aimed at improving the status of women and children and readying working-class Jamaicans for citizenship. This essay explores mass weddings as a form of women's activism in the mid-twentieth century, and it reflects on M. G. Smith's trenchant critique of mass weddings in his introduction to Edith Clarke's iconic study My Mother Who Fathered Me. Smith identifies a governor's wife as the instigator of the campaign, not the black Jamaican middle-class nationalist feminists who were responsible, yet his account has ascended to a form of academic folk knowledge that is oft repeated and rarely probed. As a valued resource for understanding late colonialism in the Caribbean, it has caricatured Caribbean feminist interventions in nationalist projects, and it contributes to the feminization of an enduring Caribbean "coloniality."
In: Caribbean Journal of Criminology, Vol. 1, No. 4, April 2019, 123–154
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In: Transitions in Caribbean Law: Lawmaking Constitutionalism and the Confluence of National and International Law, edited by David Berry and Tracy Robinson, vii-xxvii (Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers, 2013)
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In: Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Citizenship on the Edge: Sex/Gender/Race -- 1. When Words Don't Disappear: An Intersectional Analysis of Hate Speech -- 2. A Trinity of Inequality: Wealth, Marriage, and Masculinity -- 3. New-Old Law in the Postcolony: Regulating Sex in the Anglophone Caribbean -- 4. Institutional Changes and Women's Citizenship in the Maghreb: Toward a New Gender Regime? -- 5. The Murder of Malcoum Tate: Madness, Violence, and Black Masculinity in the Late Twentieth-Century United States -- 6. From Anomaly to Alarm: Trans and Crip Bodies in the Security State -- 7. It's Blue and It's Up to You! Examining Federal Antitrafficking Awareness Campaigns in the United States -- 8. Reproductive Warfare: Enforced Sterilizations in Peru -- Afterword. Citizenship on the Edge in the Age of COVID -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments