We are excited to share the next event in our New Books in Caribbean Studies Book Talk Series!
On Tuesday April 1st at 4:30 PM (Academic Building West, Room 4052) we will be joined by Dr. Tao Leigh Goffe, who will be discussing her new book Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crises.
Dark Laboratory, embarks on a historical journey to chart the forces that have shaped these islands: the legacy of slavery, indentured labor, and the forced toil of Chinese and enslaved Black people who mined the islands’ bounty—including guano, which, at the time, was more valuable than gold—for the benefit of European powers and at the expense of the islands’ sacred ecologies.
“Goffe’s ear is tuned to songs of resistance, to what it looks like to make life amid (and after) colonial subjugation…noble and necessary.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Dark Laboratory takes readers by the hand and guides them from mountain tops to coral reefs, from Jamaica to China, from the story of one family to that of our planet, from the pasts that have made us to a future we can still imagine. At once expansive and intimate, Dark Laboratory is an ambitious, genre-busting book.” —Ada Ferrer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cuba: An American History
Dr. Goffe (Associate Professor at Hunter College, CUNY) is an award-winning writer, theorist, and interdisciplinary artist. Her research explores Black diasporic intellectual histories, political, and ecological life. Dr. Goffe’s research and curatorial work is rooted in literatures and theories of labor that center Black feminist engagements with Indigeneity and Asian diasporic racial formations. Much of her artistic and sound design practice examines the geological bedrock of colonialism.
This event will also feature commentary from Dana Luciano (Rutgers), Carter Mathes (Rutgers), & Alex Mouton (Hunter College, CUNY).
Please . Space is limited for this event.
We hope you can join us!