| Summary: | This article traces how Caribbean nations become Black by virtue of their relationship to colonialism, capitalism and their linkages with race. First, it outlines how colonization linked race, labour and Blackness, and draws connections to the racialization of Caribbean nations under neoliberalism. Second, it argues for how those processes in turn generate racial tropes that mark certain nations as Black. Using Haiti and Jamaica in comparison, this article suggests that Caribbean nations and their migrants become racialized as Black in ways that both insert them within the U.S. racial hierarchy and situates them within a larger context of global Blackness.
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