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Podcast: New Books in Caribbean Studies
Episode: Aaron Kamugisha, "Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition" (Indiana UP, 2019)
Description: Aaron Kamugisha reads CLR James and Sylvia Wynter to glean from them ways to navigate the âbeyondâ of coloniality. In his new book Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition (Indiana University Press, 2019), reminds us of a Caribbean radical tradition that is fiercely critical of racism, middle-class complacencies and the incursions of neoliberalism. It is also full of hope, and brings our attention to Jamesâ ânewforms of existence that are a gift of the Caribbean to the worldâ as well as Wynterâs enormous contribution to our understanding of the black experience in the Americas. Lea...