Turn the World Upside Down: Empire and Unruly Forms of Black Folk Culture in the U.S. and Caribbean

Honorable Mention, 2024 Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Award, Caribbean Studies Association

Shortlisted, 2024 MSA Prize for a First Book, Modernist Studies Association

In the first half of the twentieth century, Black hemispheric culture grappled with the legacies of colonialism, U.S. empire, and Jim Crow. As writers and performers sought to convey the terror and the beauty of Black life under oppressive conditions, they increasingly turned to the labor, movement, speech, sound, and ritual of ever...