Strange Love: South Asians and Blacks in the Caribbean

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1 “Culture is the lyrics of the one called Lovindier/Culture is something not found in India/You cannot have culture if you were a bindhi/You cannot have culture if you speak Hindi/If you are looking for culture in all the wrong places/You can find it in Jamaica wear the people have negro faces.” “The one called Lovindier” is a reference to popular Jamaican singer Lloyd Lovindeer. Spelling was not Varun’s forte as can be seen from his transposition of “wear” and “were”/”where.”

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Annie Paul

Annie Paul is an India-born writer and critic based at the University of the West Indies, Mona, where she is head of the Publications Section at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies. In 2020 she published a biography of Stuart Hall in UWI Press’s Caribbean Biography Series. Editor-in-chief of the new online magazine of writing PREE (preelit.com) and a founding editor of Small Axe she has been published in international journals and magazines such as Newsweek International, The Guardian (UK), Chimurenga, The Caravan (India), Slavery & Abolition, Art Journal, South Atlantic Quarterly, Wasafiri, Callaloo, and Bomb and a range of art books and catalogues such as the Brooklyn Museum’s Infinite Island and Documenta11’s Creolite and Creolization. She is on the board of the National Gallery of Jamaica and has published extensively on art. Paul is author of the blog Active Voice (anniepaul.net). You can follow her on Twitter @anniepaul.