Yvon van der Pijl - Equaliberty in the Dutch Caribbean: Ways of Being Non/Sovereign

EQUALIBERTY IN THE DUTCH CARIBBEAN

CRITICAL CARIBBEAN STUDIES

Series Editors: Yolanda Mart nez-San Miguel, Carter Mathes, and Kathleen L pez

Editorial Board: Carlos U. Decena, Rutgers University; Alex Dupuy, Wesleyan University; Aisha Khan, New York University; April J. Mayes, Pomona College; Patricia Mohammed, University of West Indies; Martin Munro, Florida State University; F. Nick Nesbitt, Princeton University; Michelle Stephens, Rutgers University; Deborah Thomas, University of Pennsylvania; and Lanny Thompson, University of Puerto Rico

Focused particularly in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, although attentive to the context of earlier eras, this series encourages interdisciplinary approaches and methods and is open to scholarship in a variety of areas, including anthropology, cultural studies, diaspora and transnational studies, environmental studies, gender and sexuality studies, history, and sociology. The series pays particular attention to the four main research clusters of Critical Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University, where the coeditors serve as members of the executive board: Caribbean Critical Studies Theory and the Disciplines; Archipelagic Studies and Creolization; Caribbean Aesthetics, Poetics, and Politics; and Caribbean Colonialities.

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EQUALIBERTY IN THE DUTCH CARIBBEAN

Ways of Being Non/Sovereign

EDITED BY

YVON VAN DER PIJL AND FRANCIOGUADELOUPE

Foreword by Linden Lewis

Epilogue by Anton Allahar

RUTGERSUNIVERSITY PRESS

New Brunswick, Camden, and Newark, New Jersey, and London

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Pijl, Yvon van der, 1970 editor. | Guadeloupe, Francio, 1971editor.

Title: Equaliberty in the Dutch Caribbean : ways of being non/sovereign / edited by Yvon van der Pijl and Francio Guadeloupe ; with a foreword by Linden Lewis and an epilogue by Anton Allahar.

Description: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2022. | Series: Critical Caribbean studies | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021028274 | ISBN 9781978818668 (paperback) | ISBN 9781978818675 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781978818682 (epub) | ISBN 9781978818699 (mobi) | ISBN 9781978818705 (pdf)

Subjects: LCSH: LibertyLeeward Antilles. | EqualityLeeward Antilles. | Self-determination, NationalLeeward Antilles. | Political participation Leeward Antilles. | Leeward AntillesHistoryAutonomy and independence movements.

Classification: LCC JC599.L44 E88 2022 | DDC 320.01/1dc23

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