about me
Find me at the UMass Amherst English Department
About my participation in the Innovate@UMass initiative
My book: Citizenship Under Pressure
Find me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RachelMordecai
sx salon: a small axe literary platform, which I edit
The Journal of West Indian Literature, of which I was an editorial-board member until summer 2019
My “Pulp Caribbean” Pinterest board, where I collect pop-cultural representations of the Caribbean (primarily fiction, movies and television)
about things that interest me
Haiti in Translation: exciting new series on the translation of Haitian literature
https://repeatingislands.com/: news and commentary on Caribbean culture, literature, and the arts
African-diasporic popular culture: http://www.blacksuperhero.com/
An online collection of images pertaining to the transAtlantic slave trade: http://slaveryimages.org/
My language and its orthography: http://www.jumieka.com/index.html
Caribbean literary life: http://andrewblackman.net/2012/10/20-best-caribbean-book-blogs/
The Afflicted Yard, some of the most compelling photography from and about Jamaica that I’ve ever seen
Caribbean Commons, where I go to keep up with my field
Yard Edge: a great blog about happenings in Jamaica: http://www.yardedge.net/
Geoffrey Philp’s blog: http://geoffreyphilp.blogspot.com/
H- Caribbean: https://networks.h-net.org/h-caribbean
The National Library of Jamaica
The Digital Library of the Caribbean: http://www.dloc.com/
AfroCubaWeb: I haven’t spent much time here yet, but I intend to!
Old-Time Radio (and this series in particular): http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/DigitalDeliToo/dd2jb-Bold-Venture.html
Something I do when I’m not doing academia: spinning yarn
Something else I do when I’m not doing academia: a really good brownie recipe
Where I’m spending my Monday nights these days, learning to be a weaver: Hill Institute Master Weaver program
An excellent Caribbean Studies digital-humanities project organized by Kelly Baker Josephs (to which I had the pleasure of contributing): Keywords for Caribbean Studies