Beyond Coloniality

Aaron Kamugisha is the Ruth Simmons Professor in Africana Studies at Smith College.

• Preface1. Beyond Caribbean Coloniality2. The Contemporary as Absurdity: Denials of Citizenship in the Caribbean Postcolony3. Caribbean Racial States4. A Jamesian Poiesis? C.L.R. James's New Society and Caribbean Freedom5. The Caribbean Beyond: Reading Sylvia Wynter on Freedom and the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition6. ConclusionBibliographyIndex

Beyond Coloniality is, unsurprisingly, a superbly well-informed and complex book. Forthright in tone and urgent in message, it is also remarkably engaging, and Kamugisha does his scholarly job of identifying important lacunae and unpaid debts in the existing literature on Caribbean thought.(Social Text) Most absorbing is the book's critical assessment of how certain theories and metanarratives are inadequate to address the current realities of political-cultural discord in the contemporary Caribbean.(Small Axe.net) Kamugisha moves with great skill between the more specific discourses of the state, the middle class, tradition and modernity, and his close readings of members of the Caribbean intellectual tradition.- Paget Henry (New West Indian Guide) Aaron Kamugisha's Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition, represents the radical dimension of the black nationalist tradition.(Society for U.S. Intellectual History)