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Through three short meditations that range from border crossing between the United States and Canada to a Beyoncé song, the author considers responses from Kedon Willis, Rajiv Mohabir, and Michelle V. Rowley to his 2021 book Nature's Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean. The essay revisits and further advances the central thesis of Nature's Wild, which recalls the work and multiple legacies of racialized animalization during and after European colonization of the Caribbean, and weighs the possibilities of embracing animality.

In this short essay, Andil Gosine reflects on his use of 'Coolitude' as a pedagogical tool, particularly in considering the dehumanization of indentured subjects.

This is a curatorial essay in which the author explains his research and process for the conception and production of everything slackens in a wreck, a visual arts exhibition running at the Ford Foundation Gallery in New York from June to September 2022. Gosine elaborates his thinking about the title of the exhibition, which is taken from a Khal Torabully poem, and explains the relevance of and his intrigue with the four artists whose works comprise the exhibition: Wendy Nanan (Trinidad and Tobago), Margaret Chen (Jamaica/Canada), Andrea Chung (Jamaica/United States), and Kelly Sinnapah Mary (Guadeloupe). Each of the four women is a descendant of indentured workers who traveled to the Caribbean in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and for each this history is a reference point in her practice. Gosine proposes a consideration of the Americas as a consequence of three wreckages: the ship landings of European colonizers and the arriving ships of enslaved and, later, indentured peoples.

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In March 2016, a group of artists and scholars met at York University in Toronto to consider visual arts produced by indenture-descendant creators. Among them were filmmakers Richard Fung and Ian Harnarine, who engaged in a dialogue about their work and responded to inquiries posed by moderator Andil Gosine and others present at the workshop, including Ramabai Espinet and Patricia Mohammed. The conversation focused in particular on Fung's and Harnarine's films centering Indo-Caribbean cultural representation: Fung's 2012 feature-length documentary Dal Puri Diaspora, that traces the origins of the roti, and Harnarine's 2011 Doubles with Slight Pepper, in which Trinidadian street food features in a story about migration and a father-son relationship.

This essay introduces the special section "Art After Indenture," in which five scholars characterize and respond to eight contemporary visual artists who are descendants of indentured workers. The author also raises questions about the commemoration of indentureship and calls for greater contention with its traumatic legacy.

This article considers conversations about men and masculinity being pursued in the English-speaking Caribbean and the Republic of Ireland. The author engages structural-materialist analysis to evaluate claims circulating in both contexts that suggest men are being marginalized because of their sex-gender and employs cultural analysis to examine the representation of men's experiences in dominant discursive frameworks. Through reference to two programs that have attempted responses that address the alleged "crisis of masculinity"—Ireland's Exploring Masculinities program and Saint Lucia's Men's Resource Centre in Saint Lucia—the author identifies some of the implications of a limited analysis and also discusses some of the ways in which these programs provide potential opportunities for a more critical conversation about the situation of men and the production of masculinities.

A critical reflection on global environmentalism, described as a form of alternative globalization, focuses on how sex-race anxieties shape explanations of global environmental degradation. It is maintained that some popular configurations of global environmentalism are based on a cultural logic that privileges whiteness & racial hierarchy. Environmentalist discourses of anti-globalization movements support colonialist thinking that has racist & sexist implications, especially in relation to the lack of reproductive rights in underdeveloped countries. Historical processes that shaped the production of global environmentalisms are traced with special attention given to discourses of overpopulation. Neo-Malthusian arguments suggest that the poor have no agency & deny expressions of sexual desire to nonwhite peoples, thereby reaffirming racialized distinctions between whites & Others. Dreams of a better world that motivate many global environmentalists are produced through networks of power & culturally specific world views that deny other ways of knowing. It is concluded that there is a need for alternative anti-globalism efforts that acknowledge the harmful effects of racism & patriarchy. References. J. Lindroth