Shona N. Jackson is an independent scholar and author of Creole Indigeneity: Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean.

• Note on Terminology and Access  viiPreface  xiAcknowledgments  xxiiiIntroduction  1Part I: Labor, Work, and Middle/Passages1. Conversion  412. Toward a Middle/Passage Methodology  83Part II: Natively Rethinking the Caribbean Radical Tradition3. Left Limits and Black Possibilities  1254. Against the Grain  1595. “Marxian and Not Marxian”: Centering Sylvia Wynter in the Radical Tradition  191Part III: Rights and Representations6. Work as Metaphor, Labor as Metonymy  235Coda: The Ark of Black and Indigenous Labor  271Notes  297Bibliography  339Index  357

“Anyone who desires black and Indigenous freedoms in the Americas must read Beyond Constraint. Shona N. Jackson’s deep regard for the black radical tradition results in a stunning reading practice that transforms the conceits of cherished radicalisms anchored in work into openings for a shared history of Indigenous and black labours to build futures outside of the time of capital and coloniality. Taking the reader through multiple middle/passages, spaces of relation, and processes of conversion, Jackson rigorously reconnects black and Indigenous labour in the Caribbean. I have been waiting a long time for this brilliant contribution that moves us closer to a horizon beyond work and its entrapments.” - Tiffany Lethabo King, author of (The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies) “Beyond Constraint is brilliant. In profound ways, Shona N. Jackson resolves the impasse that is often framed between black and Indigenous experiences of slavery, settler colonialism, imperialism, genocide, and elimination. She undoes and then reforms the conversation, repositioning and recuperating it where others in Afropessimism have announced a dead end. It is now impossible to think anything about blackness, Indigeneity, work, and labour without this book.” - Jodi A. Byrd, author of (The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism)

Shona N. Jackson is an independent scholar and author of Creole Indigeneity: Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean.

• Note on Terminology and Access  viiPreface  xiAcknowledgments  xxiiiIntroduction  1Part I: Labor, Work, and Middle/Passages1. Conversion  412. Toward a Middle/Passage Methodology  83Part II: Natively Rethinking the Caribbean Radical Tradition3. Left Limits and Black Possibilities  1254. Against the Grain  1595. “Marxian and Not Marxian”: Centering Sylvia Wynter in the Radical Tradition  191Part III: Rights and Representations6. Work as Metaphor, Labor as Metonymy  235Coda: The Ark of Black and Indigenous Labor  271Notes  297Bibliography  339Index  357

“Anyone who desires black and Indigenous freedoms in the Americas must read Beyond Constraint. Shona N. Jackson’s deep regard for the black radical tradition results in a stunning reading practice that transforms the conceits of cherished radicalisms anchored in work into openings for a shared history of Indigenous and black labours to build futures outside of the time of capital and coloniality. Taking the reader through multiple middle/passages, spaces of relation, and processes of conversion, Jackson rigorously reconnects black and Indigenous labour in the Caribbean. I have been waiting a long time for this brilliant contribution that moves us closer to a horizon beyond work and its entrapments.” - Tiffany Lethabo King, author of (The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies) “Beyond Constraint is brilliant. In profound ways, Shona N. Jackson resolves the impasse that is often framed between black and Indigenous experiences of slavery, settler colonialism, imperialism, genocide, and elimination. She undoes and then reforms the conversation, repositioning and recuperating it where others in Afropessimism have announced a dead end. It is now impossible to think anything about blackness, Indigeneity, work, and labour without this book.” - Jodi A. Byrd, author of (The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism)

Shona N. Jackson is an independent scholar and author of Creole Indigeneity: Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean.

• Note on Terminology and Access  viiPreface  xiAcknowledgments  xxiiiIntroduction  1Part I: Labor, Work, and Middle/Passages1. Conversion  412. Toward a Middle/Passage Methodology  83Part II: Natively Rethinking the Caribbean Radical Tradition3. Left Limits and Black Possibilities  1254. Against the Grain  1595. “Marxian and Not Marxian”: Centering Sylvia Wynter in the Radical Tradition  191Part III: Rights and Representations6. Work as Metaphor, Labor as Metonymy  235Coda: The Ark of Black and Indigenous Labor  271Notes  297Bibliography  339Index  357

“Anyone who desires black and Indigenous freedoms in the Americas must read Beyond Constraint. Shona N. Jackson’s deep regard for the black radical tradition results in a stunning reading practice that transforms the conceits of cherished radicalisms anchored in work into openings for a shared history of Indigenous and black labours to build futures outside of the time of capital and coloniality. Taking the reader through multiple middle/passages, spaces of relation, and processes of conversion, Jackson rigorously reconnects black and Indigenous labour in the Caribbean. I have been waiting a long time for this brilliant contribution that moves us closer to a horizon beyond work and its entrapments.” - Tiffany Lethabo King, author of (The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies) “Beyond Constraint is brilliant. In profound ways, Shona N. Jackson resolves the impasse that is often framed between black and Indigenous experiences of slavery, settler colonialism, imperialism, genocide, and elimination. She undoes and then reforms the conversation, repositioning and recuperating it where others in Afropessimism have announced a dead end. It is now impossible to think anything about blackness, Indigeneity, work, and labour without this book.” - Jodi A. Byrd, author of (The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism)