Sabia McCoy-Torres Libros

Focusing on reggae and dancehall culture, the book analyzes West Indian migration to Costa Rica and Brooklyn, exploring themes of diaspora, queerness, and Blackness. It uses reggae/dancehall as an ethnographic lens to reveal unique forms of resistance and the negotiation of gender and sexuality within the community. Additionally, the author highlights the establishment of informal cultural institutions that maintain transnational connections, providing a rich understanding of Caribbean cultural subjectivity in contemporary contexts.

"This book focuses on reggae/dancehall culture and West Indian historic and contemporary migration to Costa Rica and Brooklyn. It centers an analysis of migration, diaspora, queerness, Blackness, affect, and Caribbean cultural subjectivity using reggae/dancehall culture as an ethnographic lens. The author unveils underexplored forms of resistance, negotiations of gender and sexuality, and creation of informal cultural institutions with transnational ties"--