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Caribbean Studies Association 2026

June 01, 2026 / Kingston, Jamaica

Duke University Press is honored to receive this year's Gordon K and Sybil Lewis Exceptional Press Recognition Award. In addition to recognizing three recent books for the Gordon K and Sybil Lewis Book Award, listed below, the award committee highlighted DUP as a "powerhouse," publishing works of decolonial scholarship, epistemological disruptions, and material culture. "The GKSL Committee wishes to congratulate Duke University Press for its remarkable achievement and looks forward to the ground-breaking epistemological disruptions, vibrant scholarship and radical reframing of Caribbean Studies in the years to come!" All of us at DUP are proud of the groundbreaking and critical work of our authors and we are grateful to the award committee for this special recognition.

Below, browse our new and forthcoming titles in Caribbean studies. Or, browse our complete list of books and journals in the field.. If you are looking to connect with any of our editors about your book project, see our editors’ specialties and contact information. To submit a book proposal, consult our submissions guidelines and submission portal.

Use coupon code CRBNSA26 to save 40% on books and journal issues when you order on our website through July 13, 2026. Customers in the UK and Europe can order books with this code from our UK partner, Mare Nostrum Group.

Cover of Betes Noires features a photograph of a crouching individual holding rope and wearing a covering with horns that hides their face in an empty room. Below the photograph the cover is black with a grey texture.
Bêtes Noires

Sorcery as History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands

Lauren Derby

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Winner of the 2026 Gordon K and Sybil Lewis Book Award, CSA

Cover of After Caliban features a sculpted chocolate bust by Janine Antoni. The bust has stylized facial features; the nose has been purposefully worn down to mimic erosion. The bust is lit dramatically, casting a strong shadow.
After Caliban

Caribbean Art in a Global Imaginary

Erica Moiah James

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Second Place, 2026 Gordon K and Sybil Lewis Book Award, CSA

Cover of Fueling Development has a dark blue background and a painting in the center. The painting depicts numerous, overlapping human figures in motion, in an abstract, cubist-like style.
Fueling Development

How Black Radical Trade Unionism Transformed Trinidad and Tobago

Zophia Edwards

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Honorable Mention, 2026 Gordon K and Sybil Lewis Book Award, CSA

The title is in large white and yellow letters against a background featuring the Puerto Rican flag colors. An illustration of Bad Bunny wearing a yellow outfit and a large straw hat, holding a microphone with yellow lightning bolts emanating from it
P FKN R

How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance

Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau

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The cover of Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies is a rainbow gradient with navy blue at the top and red at the bottom.
Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies

Santiago Ortiz, Aurora and Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo, editors

Book

Top half of the cover of A Wide Net of Solidarity features bold white text on a black background. Below, a sepia-toned photograph shows a fishing net strung across a sandy landscape, with shadows and scattered footprints in the sand.
A Wide Net of Solidarity

Antiracism and Anti-Imperialism from the Americas to the Globe

Anne Garland Mahler

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Cover of <I>Politics of Care Work: Puerto Rican Women Organizing for Social Justice</I> by Emma Amador. The cover features a photograph of a middle-aged woman speaking on the phone. The photograph has been edited with bright, monochromatic tints: the
The Politics of Care Work

Puerto Rican Women Organizing for Social Justice

Emma Amador

Book

Cover of Clandestinas is red with bold white and yellow type. A historical photo of women behind bars is in the background.
Clandestinas

Women in the Cuban Revolutionary Underground, 1955–1959

Carollee Bengelsdorf

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Exorbitance

A Speculative Ethnography of Inheritance

Deborah A. Thomas

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Fractal Repair

Queer Histories of Modern Jamaica

Matthew Chin

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Cover of Archival Irruptions features an image of an old handwritten ledger or registry page with rows and columns filled with cursive names and annotations and what appears to be an ink smudge at the bottom.
Archival Irruptions

Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica

Katharine Gerbner

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Inhabitants of the Deep

The Blueness of Blackness

Jonathan Howard

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Beyond Constraint

Middle/Passages of Blackness and Indigeneity in the Radical Tradition

Shona N. Jackson

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A Sense of Arrival

Kevin Adonis Browne

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The top half of the Cover of Quiet Dawn, text sits against a black-blue gradient background. A small graphic of a rising sun divides the text. The lower half features abstract art by Haitian artist Frank&eacute;tienne.
Quiet Dawn

Jean-Claude Fignolé

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......And the Dogs Were Silent/......Et les chiens se taisaient

Aimé Césaire

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2025 Honorable Mention, Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work

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Hemispheric Blackface

Impersonation and Nationalist Fictions in the Americas

Danielle Roper

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Defending Rumba in Havana

The Sacred and the Black Corporeal Undercommons

Maya J. Berry

Book

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An Unformed Map

Geographies of Belonging between Africa and the Caribbean

Philip Janzen

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Dominican Crossroads

H. C. C. Astwood and the Moral Politics of Race-Making in the Age of Emancipation

Christina Cecelia Davidson

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Winner of the 2025 Winner Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, SHAFR; Winner of the 2025 Phillis Wheatley Book Award, Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage

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After Palmares

Diaspora, Inheritance, and the Afterlives of Zumbi

Marc A Hertzman

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Winner of the 2026 Roberto Reis Senior Scholar Award, Brazilian Studies Association; Honorable Mention for the 2025 Warren Dean Memorial Prize, CLAH

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The Rule of Dons

Criminal Leaders and Political Authority in Urban Jamaica

Rivke Jaffe

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Selected Writings on Visual Arts and Culture

Detour to the Imaginary

Stuart Hall

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Ethnohistory

Denise I. Bossy and Robert C. Schwaller, editors

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Recent special issue: "Indigenous Responses to Disease: Ethnohistory inspired by COVID"

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Hispanic American Historical Review

Lauren H. Derby, Katherine M. Marino, Elizabeth O′Brien, Fernando Pérez-Montesinos, Alexandra Minna Stern, William Summerhill, and Kevin Terraciano, editors

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Small Axe

A Caribbean Journal of Criticism

David Scott, editor

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