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Acknowledgements and Works Cited

Shout-outs to: Frantz Fanon, George Lamming, Audre Lorde, Natasha White and Walt Whitman

Georges Henriques [1953] 1968. Family and Colour in Jamaica. London: MacGibbon and Kee.

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Gina Athena Ulysse is a feminist artist-anthropologist-activist and self-proclaimed Post-Zora Interventionist. She earned her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She is also a performance artist, poet and multi-media artist. Her most recent book is Why Haiti Needs New Narratives: A Post-Quake Chronicle (2015). She is currently Professor of anthropology at Wesleyan University.