Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction an otherwise modern archive on migration 1
4. 1 A Permanent Periphery: Caribbean Migration Flows and the World Economy 8
5. PART I Unincorporated Subjects (Puerto Rico, Guam)
6. 2 The Role of State Actors in Puerto Rico’s Long Century of Migration, 1899–2015 17
7. 3 “May God Take Me to Orlando”: The Puerto Rican Exodus to Florida before and after Hurricane Maria 40
8. 4 Caribbean Mediascapes: Ruins and Debt in Puerto Rico 59
9. 5 Circumscribed Citizenship: Caribbean American Visibility 78
10. 6 From Father to Humanitarian: Charting Intimacies and Discontinuities in Ricky Martin’s Social Media Presence and Writing 87
11. 7 Terripelagoes: Archipelagic Thinking in Culebra, Puerto Rico, and Guam 103
12. PART II TECHNOLOGIES OF REPRESENTATION (CUBA, JAMAICA)
13. 8 The Caribbean in the U.S. Imagination: Travel Writing, Annexation, and Slavery 127
14. 9 Contemporary Afrocubana Feminisms: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Havana 143
15. 10 Going Back to Cuba: How Enclaves of Memory Stimulate Returns and Repatriations 160
16. 11 The Floating Generation: Cuban Art in the Post-Soviet Period, 1991–2017 175
17. 12 “It Would Make a Rat Puke”: Diasporic Thinking in Contemporary Jamaican Art Practices 188
18. PART III LANGUAGES OF THE DIASPORA (HISPANIOLA, UNITED STATES)
19. 13 Kreyòl Sung, Kreyòl Understood: Haitian Songwriter BIC (Roosevelt Saillant) Reflects on Language and Poetics 205
20. 14 Migration and Its Discontents: The Dominican Films of Laura Amelia Guzmán and Israel Cárdenas 214
21. 15 Transnational Hispaniola: The First Decade in Support of a New Paradigm for Haitian and Dominican Studies 224
22. 16 New Points of the Rhizome: Rethinking Caribbean Relation in U.S. Latinx Poetry 239
23. Acknowledgments 259
24. Bibliography 261
25. Notes on Contributors 289
26. Index 293