This bookdirects discussions of critical theory to the Caribbean as a key source in the theory and practice of freedom, liberation, and justice. In dialogue with Frankfurt School Critical Theory, while highlighting contributions of Caribbean theorists, the volume offers a wider archive of Marxism as well as of social critique and construction.

Benjamin P. Davis is a postdoctoral fellow at Saint Louis University. He is the author of Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Glissant, Human Rights and Decolonial Ethics and Simone Weil's Political Philosophy: Field Notes from the Margins.

Kris F. Sealey is professor of philosophy at Penn State University. She is the author of Creolizing the Nation and Moments of Disruption: Levinas, Sartre, and the Question of Transcendence.

Introduction: Critical Theory at the Crossroads, Benjamin P. Davis and Kris F. Sealey

Chapter 1: Sylvia Wynter's' Caribbean Critical Theory, Romy Opperman

Chapter 2: Creolization's Newness, Jeta Mulaj

Chapter 3: The Promise of Manumission, Miguel Gualdrón Ramírez

Chapter 4: Against Ethnocratic Emancipations, Derefe Chevannes

Chapter 5: Creolization from Below, Ashley Boher

Chapter 6: Conserving Ethical Blackness, Gabriella Beckles-Raymond

Chapter 7: The Tricontinental Recollected, Eli Portella

Chapter 8: Strategic Anti-Essentialism, Rafael Vizcaíno

Afterword: Critical Theory Caribbeanized, Deborah A. Thomas

Index

About the Contributors