Thinking with the Spectral: Anti-Blackness in the Hispanophone and Anglophone Caribbean

In the Caribbean, where most of the population is of African descent, experiences of anti-Black racism are encoded in social and political hierarchical schemas. These norms and their discourses manifest in ways that are more often felt—experienced—rather than explicitly and externally discerned and defined. It is this haunting, there-but-not-there, undefinable dimension of anti-Black racism that we seek to explore in its modern Caribbean iterations. This gathering of critical essays and resources from the Hispanophone and Anglophone Caribbean speaks to the lived experiences, contemporary theorizations, and popular engagements with specters of anti-Black racism in the region.