Afroindigenization

Catherine A. John is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Rhode Island and author of Clear Word and Third Sight: Folk Groundings and Diasporic Consciousness in African Caribbean Writing, published by Duke University Press.

Acknowledgments  ix

Introduction. KRIK: Afroindigenization and Marasa Consciousness  1

1. Mermaids in Woodside, Jamaica: Submerged Consciousness  37

2. Mountings in Rize: Becoming the Horse and the Turn Loose in Hip-Hop  64

3. Ìyá but Not Western Woman: A Grassroots Formulation of the Afrospora Feminine  106

4. Enter the Dragons of Debate: Rashid Campbell and George Lee’s 2014 Run  149

Afterword. KRAK: “Jack Mandora Mi Nuh Choose None”  184

Notes  189

Bibliography  213

Index  223

“A welcome expansion of the terrain. Catherine John has offered an original, rich, and nuanced interpretation of Afroindigeneity in our time. In the words of John’s mother, quoted in the book: ‘the world needs this one.’” - LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant, Director of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center and Professor of African, African American and Diaspora Studies, UNC Chapel Hill

“Afroindigenzation is a transdisciplinary study by a senior scholar that demonstrates with originality, finesse, and power African spiritual modes of habitation, survival, and thriving among African descendants past and present across the Americas and the Caribbean. Catherine John’s skill at elaborating a new theory of African diaspora religiosity, spirituality, and cultural production/performance is truly exceptional.” - Dianne M. Stewart, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Religion and African American Studies, Emory University