Caribbean Solidarities Syllabus

This evolving syllabus was created during my participation in the Bandung Residency stewarded by the Asian American Arts Alliance and the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art from 2024-2025 during which each resident was tasked with creating a community activation that would build solidarity between NYC’s Black and Asian communities. The project I pursued revolved around learning from our past to further build solidarity across the Caribbean diaspora in New York City, which spans Black, Asian, and Latine community members.

I conducted research, through a gender justice lens, on a revolutionary period of time in Guyana’s post-independence history during which cross-racial socialist political parties & organizations took root and galvanized many, ushering in a new political consciousness that momentarily replaced ethnic politics with revolutionary class solidarity. This research informed a public event I organized and held in Brooklyn, NY titled Birds Flying Backwards: Healing Arts for Caribbean Solidarities, on July 19, 2025.

Not all of the resources pertain directly to the Caribbean, but they all informed my research and understanding. Please check back in as the syllabus will evolve!

WATCH:

• Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World: A Conversation with Claire Jean Kim

• Thunder in Guyana

• A Life in Struggle: Exclusive with Leila Khaled, Icon of Palestinian Resistance

• Grenada: The Future Coming Towards Us (1983)

• Redemption Song narrated by Stuart Hall

• “Be worried about now!” w/ Vijay Prashad

• My Brothers and Sisters in the North

• Advice to New Abolitionists

• Breaking Down the Prison Industrial Complex

• Abolition 3/13: Abolish the Police

READ:

• Women in the Struggle for Peace and Security, By Claudia Jones

• “Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder

• (1970) Amilcar Cabral, “National Liberation and Culture”

• Tell no lies, Claim no easy victories...

• That Unmistakable “Red Thread” in Caribbean Left Feminist Activism

• Spitting in the Wind: Lessons in Empowerment from the Caribbean

• The birth of the Working People’s Alliance in Guyana

• Anuradha Ghandy: Remembering The Red Feminist

• What is Proletarian Feminism?

• Philosophical Trends in the Feminist Movement 

• The People’s Forum: School of Art, Culture, and Resistance (Curriculum)

• Haiti: We Have Dared to be Free

• “You don’t play with Revolution”: A Short Course on Caribbean Revolution and the Caribbean Radical Tradition

• Counting Women's Caring Work: An Interview with Andaiye

• Towards a Transformational Strategy

• In the Diaspora edited by Alissa Trotz

• Wikipedias:

• François Mackandal

• Vladamir Lenin

• Maurice Bishop

• Cuban Revolution

• Eric Williams

• Vanguardism

• Facing Reality by CLR James and Grace Lee Boggs

• The real lessons of the 1956 uprising in Hungary

• Why Socialism?

• Slave Revolts, the earliest form of labor struggle

• Womantra, on Beverly Jones

• Huey on Anarchists and Individualists as Related to Revolutionary Struggle and the Black Liberation Movement

• Combating Liberalism by Mao

• In Search of Zora Neale Hurston by Alice Walker

• Women, Race, & Class by Angela Davis (full text)

• Guyana: Democracy Betrayed by Jai Narine Singh (Uncle leant me a copy)

• Are Prisons Obsolete? Chapter 1 by Angela Davis

• What the public is getting right—and wrong — about police abolition Fabiola Cineas  

• Surviving Abolition Kim Tran

• Who’s Left? Mariame Kaba (graphic essay) 

• Abolition Is Not a Suburb Tamara K. Nopper 

• What Is Abolition, and Why Do We Need It? by Reina Sultan and Micah Herskind

• The Struggle to Abolish the Police Is Not New by Garrett Felber