Sex and the Citizen: Interrogating the Caribbean

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments This book has been a long time in the making, so first I must express my gratitude to the contributors who stayed the course and those who did not for their patience and goodwill. Audiences at Duke University , the University of Massachusetts at Boston, the “Conversations on Caribbean Transnational and Diasporic Feminisms” seminar organized by York and Toronto universities, the “Re-routing Diaspora” seminar at the University of Pennsylvania, and the “Black Love” symposium at DePaul University gave valuable feedback. I thank the Student Scholar Partnership of the Women’s Studies Research Center, the Theodore and Jane Norman Award, and the Program in Latin American and Latino Studies’ Jane’s Award travel grants, all of Brandeis University, as well as Lauren Holm Ellis, Samantha Miller, Samuel Nicolosi, and Lisa Pannella. Supportive colleagues at the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University gave me the will to take this project up again, and the space at 40 Concord Avenue allowed me to complete it. M. Jacqui Alexander, Bernadette Brooten, Belinda Edmondson, Lyndon Kamal Gill, Thomas Glave, Sue Houchins, Florence Ladd, Sue Lanser, Patricia Mohammed, Patricia Powell, Rhoda Reddock, Marjorie Salvodan, Mark Schafer, Thandeka, and the Small Axe collective encouraged and inspired me. Once again, Cathie Brettschneider kept the faith. Joanne Allen’s patience and meticulousness have made this a better book. The comments of two anonymous reviewers were invaluable. Finally, Donette Francis, Tracy Robinson, and Michelle Rowley first showed me the connections between sexuality and citizenship in the region: thank you. Sex and the Citizen ...