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Volume 44 • 2025 • The Caribbean as a Pole of the African Diaspora
Cover image credit: Myrtle Henry Sodhi (AfroQuill), A Movement Across Time, November 2025
Cover image description: This digital image captures the idea of Ubuntu as expressed through dance and movement. Being through and with others is a movement across time. Steps, twists, folds, and reaches are echoed from the past, expressed in the present, and reverberate into the future. Dance is a way to feel together--through each other. This does not mean we disappear into each other but rather we appear through and with each other.
Editors: Emilie Jabouin (Guest Editor), Karla Etienne (Guest Editor)
Articles
The Caribbean as a Pole of the African Diaspora: An Introduction
Emilie Jabouin, Karla Etienne and Karla Etienne
2025-12-22 Volume 44 • 2025 • The Caribbean as a Pole of the African Diaspora
SIMBI: An Inner Transformation through Dance and Ancestral Heritage
Laura Beaubrun
2025-12-22 Volume 44 • 2025 • The Caribbean as a Pole of the African Diaspora
SIMBI: Une Transformation Intérieure par la Danse et l’Héritage Ancestral
Laura Beaubrun
2025-12-22 Volume 44 • 2025 • The Caribbean as a Pole of the African Diaspora
Selfpolyfication and Arriving on Choice: Africana Dance Practice Revised
Talawa Prestø
2025-12-22 Volume 44 • 2025 • The Caribbean as a Pole of the African Diaspora
From Concept to Choreographic System—Advancing Selfpolyfication as a Compositional and Performance Methodology
Talawa Prestø
2025-12-22 Volume 44 • 2025 • The Caribbean as a Pole of the African Diaspora
“Si Tu No Sabe Kokobalé” and The Reclamation of Collective Memory as a Praxis of Liberation
Isabel Padilla Carlo
2025-12-22 Volume 44 • 2025 • The Caribbean as a Pole of the African Diaspora
“Si Tú No Sabe Kokobalé” y el reclamo por la memoria colectiva como praxis de liberación
Isabel Padilla Carlo
2025-12-22 Volume 44 • 2025 • The Caribbean as a Pole of the African Diaspora
"Pure" Christianity, Revivalism and Kumina: Toward a Queer Spiritual Praxis, and the Destabilization of Colonial Epistemologies
Webster Brandon McDonald
2025-12-22 Volume 44 • 2025 • The Caribbean as a Pole of the African Diaspora
Sacred Expressions: Dance and Movements in the Realm of the Spirit
Ireka Jelani
2025-12-22 Volume 44 • 2025 • The Caribbean as a Pole of the African Diaspora
From Dancers to Writers: Literary Representations of Afro-Descendant Dancing in Spiralism
Claire Massy-Paoli
2025-12-22 Volume 44 • 2025 • The Caribbean as a Pole of the African Diaspora
Du Corps danseur à l’Être écrivain : Représenter les danses afrodescendantes dans le Spiralisme littéraire
Claire Massy-Paoli
2025-12-22 Volume 44 • 2025 • The Caribbean as a Pole of the African Diaspora
A Journey through the Unity Atlantic Rhythm Map
Deirdre C. Molloy
2025-12-22 Volume 44 • 2025 • The Caribbean as a Pole of the African Diaspora
Bending but Not Breaking- Awakening to Limbo
Kieron Dwayne Sargeant
2025-12-22 Volume 44 • 2025 • The Caribbean as a Pole of the African Diaspora