Preface: Badiou in Jamaica?
David Scott
Silences and Specters: Haiti, the British Empire and the 1904 Commemorations of the Centenary of Independence
Jack Webb
On Ecstatic-Aesthetic Universality—In Zong!
Daniel Benjamin
From Dominican-Haitian ‘Cockfight’ to Polyrhythmic Counterpoint: Writing Difference on the Island of Hispaniola
Paul Emiljanowicz
The Jamaican 1970s
Guest editor, Donette Francis
Interim Time: Recasting the Revolutionary Jamaican 1970s
Donette Francis
Reading the Jamaican 1970s as Political Thriller: Lessons from Pop Fiction
Rachel Mordecai
“Black Man Time Now”: Race, Class and Culture in 1970s Jamaica
Kim Robinson-Walcott
The Jamaican Left: Dogmas, Theories, and Politics, 1974-1980
Rupert Lewis
Reading the Seventies in a Different Stylie: Dub, Poetry and the Urgency of Message
Brian Meeks
The Jamaican 70s and its influence on the making of Black Britain
Eddie Chambers
Decolonization, the body and performance in the 1970s
Honor Ford-Smith
‘The Word is Love’: Michael Manley’s Style of Radical Political Will
David Scott
Visualities
May You Live in Interesting Times
Phillip Thomas
Book Discussion: Ada Ferrer’s Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution
“He Was a Lion, and He Would Destroy Much:” A Practical and Speculative School of Revolutionary Politics
Sara E. Johnson
Thy Neighbor’s Slave Society: Rethinking Comparison and Interconnection in the History of Caribbean Slavery
Laura Rosanne Adderley
Slavery, Freedom, and the Work of Speculation
Ada Ferrer