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<p>An Other Moment: Un-Collapsing the Chinese Presence in the Caribbean</p>

<div><strong>Imagined Nations: 50 Years Later</strong></div>
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<p>In October of 2012, the University of Miami had the honor of hosting the 31st Annual West Indian Literature Conference. The annual conference coincided with the occasion of the 50th anniversary of independence in Trinidad and Jamaica. Quite naturally, this provided conference participants with the opportunity for reflection and dialogue on the last fifty years, not only in Jamaica and Trinidad, but also in other territories in the region. The conference theme, reconfigured for this volume of essays as&nbsp;<em>Imagined Nations: 50 Years Later</em>, represents an effort to open a critical space for scholars and artists to contemplate the imagined enterprise of independence, its successes and failures, as well as the ongoing struggles within marginalized communities of independent nation-states. Many of these essays also reflect on a range of emerging questions about the next fifty years of post-independence and the hopes and aspirations of a new generation of writers imagining this future through an increasingly diasporic lens. This issue represents a small cross-section of the debates that animated the conversations throughout the conference. It includes insights about the challenges of representing nationalism, sexuality and citizenship in pre- and post-independence literature, and ever-evolving questions of equality and self-determination.</p>

<p>New Scholarship on the Caribbean and the United States</p>

<p>Intellectual Formations: Locating a Caribbean Critical Tradition</p>

<p>New Work in Caribbean Literary and Cultural Studies</p>

<p>The Asian Experience in the Caribbean: A Special Double Issue</p>

<p>Calypso and the Caribbean Literary Imagination: A Special Issue</p>

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Editor's Note

Introduction: Looking for Black Miami

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Essays

Introduction: Looking for Black Miami

Black Miami's Resiliency: A Photographic Essay

Black Miami to Me

Queer. Caribbean. Miami. Boy: A Personal Geography

The Smallness of Identity, Smallness of Blackness

Growing Up Haitian in Black Miami: A Narrative in Three Acts

Speculating in History

Magic City Killjoys: Women Organizers, Gentrification, and the Politics of Multiculturalism in Little Haiti

Afterword: “Miami’s Nappy Edges: Finding Black Miami, Sin Fronteras”

Interviews

“There’s a Part of Me That Must Remain Truthful to the Story”: An Interview with Juana Valdes¹

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