Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Caribbean Spaces: Reflective Essays/Creative-Theoretical Circulations -- 1. Between the Twilight Zone and the Underground Railroad: "Owega" -- 2. Reimagining the Caribbean: Seeing, Reading, Thinking -- 3. Caribbean/American: The Portable Black Self in Community -- 4. Spirit Scapes: From Brazil to the Caribbean -- 5. Middle Passages: Movable Borders and Ocean-Air Space Mobility -- 6. Women, Labor, and the Transnational: From Work to Work -- 7. Connecting Stories: My Grandmother's Violin -- 8. "Changing Locations": Literary Pathways of Caribbean Migration -- 9. "Haiti, I Can See Your Halo!": Living on Fault Lines -- 10. Caribbean GPS: Compasses of Racialization -- 11. Circulations: Caribbean Political Activism -- 12. My Father Died a Second Time -- 13. Postscript: Escape Routes -- Bibliography -- Index.