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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.

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.

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 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."

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