The Asian Caribbean in the Caribbean Diaspora: Essays on Migration, Identity, and Literary and Cultural Representations

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Thursday, March 26, 2026 | 6pm to 7:15pm

Celebrate the publication of Aleah N. Ranjitsingh’s edited volume The Asian Caribbean in the Caribbean Diaspora: Essays on Migration, Identity, and Literary and Cultural Representations. The volume expands notions of the Caribbean diaspora to account for the Asian as part of the Caribbean and Caribbean diaspora. Its interdisciplinary chapters center Caribbean people of Chinese, Indian, Japanese and Javanese descent in and outside of the Caribbean, reveal migration narratives, encounters on Caribbean plantations and in diasporic urban centers, notions of homeland and experiences of return, family histories, identity formation and subjectivity, the ways in which Caribbean people create and convey meaning about these histories, experiences and self, and the contributions of Caribbean people of Asian descent to the framing of the Caribbean and Asian diasporas. 
 
Ranjitsingh (Brooklyn College) will be joined in conversation by volume contributors Nikoli Attai (Binghamton University), Sue Ann Barratt (University of the West Indies), Cristine Sabrina Khan (Stony Brook), Jillian Ollivierre (York University), and Tarika Sankar (Brown University).
 
Library Guide with free electronic access to the book: https://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/wolfe2025/newfacultybooksspring
 
 
Co-Sponsor
Asian American / Asian Research Institute – CUNY

Author Bio

Aleah N. Ranjitsingh is Assistant Professor of Caribbean Studies in the Africana Studies Department at Brooklyn College/CUNY. She received her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies from the Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS), University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. Her research focuses on the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora where she interrogates the concepts of gender, race, mixed race, Blackness, identity, and diaspora. She has published in the Journal for Intercultural Studies, the Caribbean Journal of International Relations and Diplomacy, and the Caribbean Review of Gender Studies. She is the co-author of Dougla in the 21st Century: Adding to the Mix (University of Mississippi Press, June 2021), a study of race and the mixed race Dougla identity in the Caribbean and the Caribbean, and editor of the collection The Asian Caribbean in the Caribbean Diaspora. Essays on Migration, Identity, and Literary and Cultural Representations (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2026).