“Catch a Fyah”  
Amber Williams-King                2 
 
Guyana’s Ethnic Security Dilemma: 
Positing an Alternative Reading  
Duane Edwards                        4 
 
Haiti and Cuba: Trans-Caribbean Conversation  
And Cross Border Movements  
Monica Espaillat Lizado       17 

 
“Immigrant Skies”  
Amber Williams-King      31 
 
The Seasonal Moral Contract: The Legitimization of the  
Abusive Treatment of Caribbean Workers in Ontario     
Cecilia Saez        33 
 
Theories of Haitian Mobility and their 
Relationship to the Dominican Sugar Industry  
Juliana Ramirez        43 
 
USA’s Crusade on the Haitian Black Pig Population 
 & Its Toll on Haitian Peasantry and Agriculture  
Sarah Taluy        51 
 
AIDS in Haiti: Situating the Incidence and  
Prevalence of AIDS in Structural Violence  
Samra Hasnain       64 
 
Puerto Rico: Sterile Breeding Grounds 
 for Coercion and Uniformed Consent 
Susan G. Enberg       75 
 
ART 
Amber Williams-King      90 
 
The Pervasive Silence of Enslaved Women and 
The Dichotomy of White Woman as Property and Proprietor     
Chantal McFarlane        93 
 
 
 



 

 

Pum Pum Rule Jamaican Dancehall: 
An Analytical Response to the Inability to Recognize  
Female Sovereignty in Dancehall 
Leslie Fullerton      100 
 
Deconstructing Ideas of Violence and Homophobia in Jamaica    
Sharifa Patel  117 
      
Insecurity in Security: National Security in the Context of Tourism 
And Domestic Sustainment in the Caribbean   
Melissa Sobers       129 
 
The Dismantlement of the Netherlands Antilles:  
How Autonomy is More Viable than Independence     
Cameron Wathey       142 
 
From Democratic Socialism to a Neoliberal Agenda:  
A Jamaican Case Study  
Raquel Brown       154 
 
Extraction, Exploitation and Degradation: 
A Brief Environmental History of Western Investment in Jamaica 
Thomas McCarthy       171 
 
Monsanto and Caribbean Agricultural Politics    
Mark Chatarpal       184 
 
“Requiem” 
Amber Williams-King  216 
 
“As the Snow Melts before the Sunbeam:  
Writing the “Inevitable” Extinction of the Indigenous  
Peoples of the Americas”  
Nasha Mavalvala        217 
 
Collage: Cuba and Jamaica  
Tammy Williams        227