Scholars@Duke
Michaeline A. Crichlow

Michaeline A. Crichlow

Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies
African & African American Studies
michaeline.crichlow@duke.edu
Box 90252, Durham, NC 27708-0252
124 Campus Drive, 243 Friedl Bldg., Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications

Introduction: Climate change, decolonization, global Blackness

Journal Article Cultural Dynamics · August 1, 2025 This introduction lays out the program undertaken by the Climate Change, Decolonization, and Global Blackness project (CCDGB) at Duke University’s Franklin Humanities Institute. Underway since 2022, the project has invited key speakers to converse with the ... Full text Cite

Introduction: Decoloniality in the Break of Global*Blackness — Movement, Method, Poethics

Journal Article Decoloniality in the Break of Global Blackness Movement Method Poethics · January 1, 2025 Thinking through the multiplying disorders and worldwide demonstrations staged in the wake of George Floyd’s murder and others in the US and Global South, this introduction offers to think of decoloniality in the break of global*Blackness as movement, meth ... Full text Cite

Decoloniality in the Break of Global Blackness: Movement, Method, Poethics

Book · January 1, 2025 This book, contextualized by the violence of globalization, investigates the fungible, fugitive, and untenable experiences of Black being and time through a decolonial poethics of global*Blackness. In so doing it introduces innovative readings of coloniali ... Full text Cite

A Spectral Decoloniality in the Wake of the Slave Nomos

Chapter · January 1, 2025 An engagement with decoloniality from the place of Blackness is, invariably, a reckoning with time and the spectral. But rather than seeking an exorcism of ghostly things, we wish to address the ghosts haunting our times to grapple with the temporal comple ... Full text Cite

Decolonial Notes on the Journey toward the Future: Négritude, Abject Blackness, and the Emancipatory Force of Spectrality

Chapter · January 1, 2025 In this essay, we advance an “interpretative analytic,” to address the character of the politics and strategic intent in Césaire’s poetics and life work. In so doing we focus on Césaire’s commitment to the method of poetics articulated through the movement ... Full text Cite

Whatever Happened to Diaspora, and Why Not Global-Blackness? Interrogating Black Time-Spaces for a Decolonial Agenda1

Chapter · January 1, 2025 This historico-conceptual essay offers the concept of global-Blackness as a productive optic for exploring the relationship between race and Blackness and advancing a multidimensional decolonial project. In critical dialogue with the more popular invocatio ... Full text Cite

Unpayable debt: What lies beneath 1

Journal Article Cultural Dynamics · November 1, 2023 Full text Cite

Of "Realities and Possibilities"

Journal Article Small Axe · November 1, 2023 Within the logic of our present behavior-orienting telos of "development" and "economic growth," any "strategy" designed to secure the material basis of Black Africa as a viable, unified and geopolitically nonvulnerable, multiethnic, multicreedal in Kenya, ... Full text Cite

Introduction: Moral and Market disordering in the time of Covid-19

Journal Article Cultural Dynamics · August 1, 2021 Featured Publication This special issue composed of essays that brainstorm the triadic relationship between Covid-19, Race and the Markets, addresses the fundamentals of a world economic system that embeds market values within social and cultural lifeways. It penetrates deep i ... Full text Open Access Cite

Race and Rurality in the Global Economy

Book · September 26, 2018 This book is an invitation to ask whether our dystopia in present politics can be disentangled from the deepening sense of _white fragility_ in the context of the historical power of globalization_s raced effects. ... Cite

Introduction

Journal Article South Atlantic Quarterly · July 1, 2016 Full text Cite

Revisiting affirmative action, globally

Journal Article Cultural Dynamics · March 16, 2015 Featured Publication Full text Cite

Categories, Citizenship, Erotic Agency, and the Problem of Freedom

Journal Article Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism · March 1, 2015 Featured Publication Full text Cite

Neoliberalism, Inequality, and the Cultural Politics of Affirmative Action

Journal Issue Cultural Dynamics: Insurgent Scholarship on Culture, Politics and Power · 2015 Cite

Introduction

Journal Article Third Text · September 3, 2014 Featured Publication Full text Cite

Islands, Images, Imaginaries

Journal Article Third Text · August 2014 Cite

Islands, Images, Imaginaries

Journal Issue Third Text: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture · 2014 Cite

Human traffic-past and present

Journal Article Cultural Dynamics · July 1, 2013 Full text Cite

Human Traffic: Past and Present

Journal Issue Cultural Dynamics: Insurgent Scholarship on Culture, Politics and Power · 2013 Cite

Rethinking the Mangrove of Caribbean Space and Time

Journal Article Social and Economic Studies · December 2012 Cite

States of Freedom: Freedom of States

Journal Issue The Global South · 2012 Cite

Carnival Crossfire: Art, Culture, Politics

Journal Article Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture · July 2010 Cite

Carnival Crossfire: Art, Culture, Politics

Journal Issue Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture · 2010 Cite

Race, Space, Place: The Making and Unmaking of Freedoms in the Atlantic World

Journal Article Cultural Dynamics (Special Issue Editors) · November 2009 Cite

Homing modern freedoms: Creolization and the politics of making place

Journal Article Cultural Dynamics · November 1, 2009 'Creolization', as subject and problematic, seems trapped in complex processes of cultural politics within and outside the 'Caribbean', even as it continues to figure significantly in the histories of globalization, nationalization and regionalization. In ... Full text Cite

Questioning Freedoms in the Atlantic World

Journal Article Cultural Dynamics (Special Issue) · 2009 Cite

Race, Space, Place: The Making and Unmaking of Freedoms in the Atlantic World

Journal Issue Cultural Dynamics: Insurgent Scholarship on Culture, Politics and Power · 2009 Co-editor ... Cite

Caribbean Land and Development Revisited

Journal Article NWIG-NEW WEST INDIAN GUIDE-NIEUWE WEST-INDISCHE GIDS · January 1, 2009 Link to item Cite

Plantations

Chapter · December 2007 Cite

A Response to My Critics in Book Discussion

Journal Article Social and Economic Studies · September 2007 Cite

Negotiating Caribbean Freedom: Peasants and the State in Development

Book · January 1, 2005 Michaeline A. Crichlow extends the contemporary critique of development projects by examining the political and discursive relationship of the state to the land-based working people, or "smallholders," in modern Jamaica. The first book of its kind, Negotia ... Cite

Re-centering Resistance in the Context of Globality: Afro-Caribbean People under Colonial Rule

Journal Article Contours: A Journal of the African Diaspora · 2004 Cite

Neoliberalism, states, and bananas in the Windward Islands

Journal Article Latin American Perspectives · May 1, 2003 Crichlow's study documents the important changes that have occurred in class structure and opportunity in Windward Islands banana production because of decisions by foreign corporations and the World Trade Organization (WTO). Banana producers in the Windwa ... Full text Cite

Nationalists and Development: The Price of Citizenship in Colonial Jamaica

Journal Article Plantation Society in the Americas · 2003 Cite

On the Move: The Caribbean, Diaspora and Atlantic Studies Program

Journal Article International Accents · 2002 Cite

Book Review

Journal Article Identities · December 1997 Full text Cite

The limits of maneuver: Caribbean states, small farmers and the capitalist world economy, 1940s-1995

Journal Article Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East · January 1, 1997 This paper offers a discussion of agricultural globalization by examining the state and agrarian strata in an old internationalized periphery, namely the Caribbean. Peripheralization, that is, global relations that lead to the marginalization of economies, ... Full text Cite

Globalization, states and agricultural development in the Caribbean: The case of Jamaica and the Windward Islands

Conference Land and Sustainable Development: A People’s Focus Conference Proceedings · 1996 Cite

(Debates): Reply to Besson

Journal Article New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids · 1995 In response to "Reply to Crichlow” by Jean Besson of Goldsmith College, London University to "An Alternative approach to Family Land Tenure in the Caribbean: The Case of St. Lucia" ... Cite

Orpheus and Power by Michael Hanchard

Book Review Identities · 1995 Cite

An Alternative Approach to Family-Land Tenure in the Caribbean : The Case of St. Lucia

Journal Article New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids · 1994 Cite

Report: 'Hunger 1993: Uprooted People' by Marc J. Cohen ed.

Journal Article Social and Economic Studies · 1994 Cite

The Jamaican People 1820-1920 by Patrick Bryan

Book Review Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 68, (3&4): · 1994 Cite

Hunger 1993: Uprooted People by Marc J. Cohen ed.

Book Review Social and Economic Studies · 1994 Cite

Stratification, Pluralism and Economic Power

Chapter · 1991 Interview with Lloyd Brathwaite a prominent West Indian sociologist ... Cite

Race and Rurality

Journal Issue The Global Economy Cite

Aimé Césaire: Negritude Revisited

Journal Issue SAQ: The South Atlantic Quarterly Cite