Focuses on the criminalization of queer communities in both the United States and the Caribbean in ways that prompt us to rethink how modernity invents its own traditions. This book reflects on the limits and failures of liberal pluralism. It maps the terrain of alternative histories and offers knowledge with which to mould alternative futures.

She focuses on the criminalization of queer communities in both the United States and the Caribbean in ways that prompt us to rethink how modernity invents its own traditions; she juxtaposes the political organizing and consciousness of women workers in global factories in Mexico, the Caribbean, and Canada with the pressing need for those in the academic factory to teach for social justice; she reflects on the limits and failures of liberal pluralism; and she presents original and compelling arguments that show how and why trans-generational memory is an indispensable spiritual practice within differently constituted women-of-colour communities as it operates as a powerful antidote to oppression. In this multifaceted, visionary book, Alexander maps the terrain of alternative histories and offers new forms of knowledge with which to mould alternative futures. M. Jacqui Alexander is Professor of Women's Studies and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. She is a co-author of "Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray! Feminist Visions for a Just World" and co-editor of "Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures".