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 2025-2025 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 a solidarity across the Caribbean diaspora in NYC, 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 replaced ethnic politics with revolutionary class solidarity. This research informed a day of healing arts I organized for the Caribbean diaspora in NYC on July 19, 2025. I do not believe in gate-keeping. Enjoy the resources!
Watch: Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World: A Conversation with Claire Jean Kim
Watch: Thunder in Guyana
Read: Women in the Struggle for Peace and Security, By Claudia Jones
Read: (1970) Amilcar Cabral, “National Liberation and Culture”
Read: That Unmistakable “Red Thread” in Caribbean Left Feminist Activism
Read: Spitting in the Wind: Lessons in Empowerment from the Caribbean
Read: TPF: School of Art, Culture, and Resistance (Curriculum)
Watch: A Life in Struggle: Exclusive with Leila Khaled, Icon of Palestinian Resistance
Read: Counting Women's Caring Work: An Interview with Andaiye
Wikipedias:
Read: In the Diaspora edited by Alissa Trotz
Watch: Redemption Song narrated by Stuart Hall
Read: Facing Reality by CLR James and Grace Lee Boggs
Read: Why Socialism?
Read: Combating Liberalism by Mao
Read: In Search of Zora Neale Hurston by Alice Walker
Read: Women, Race, & Class by Angela Davis
Read: Guyana: Democracy Betrayed by Jai Narine Singh (Uncle Deep copy)
Are Prisons Obsolete? Chapter 1 (pgs. Chapter 1 the book—11pgs.)
What the public is getting right—and wrong — about police abolition Fabiola Cineas
Surviving Abolition Kim Tran
Who’s Left? Mariame Kaba (graphic essay)
Watch: Advice to New Abolitionists
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