Beyond Constraint

“Anyone who desires black and Indigenous freedoms in the Americas must read Beyond Constraint. Shona N. Jackson’s deep regard for the black radical tradition results in a stunning reading practice that transforms the conceits of cherished radicalisms anchored in work into openings for a shared history of Indigenous and black labours to build futures outside of the time of capital and coloniality. Taking the reader through multiple middle/passages, spaces of relation, and processes of conversion, Jackson rigorously reconnects black and Indigenous labour in the Caribbean. I have been waiting a long time for this brilliant contribution that moves us closer to a horizon beyond work and its entrapments.” - Tiffany Lethabo King, author of The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies

“Beyond Constraint is brilliant. In profound ways, Shona N. Jackson resolves the impasse that is often framed between black and Indigenous experiences of slavery, settler colonialism, imperialism, genocide, and elimination. She undoes and then reforms the conversation, repositioning and recuperating it where others in Afropessimism have announced a dead end. It is now impossible to think anything about blackness, Indigeneity, work, and labour without this book.” - Jodi A. Byrd, author of The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism

"Groundbreaking. . . . What Beyond Constraint offers is a deepening of the Black radical tradition as necessarily also an Indigenous one . . . to identify how these different relations to Indigeneity can be brought into relation to mount common opposition to the ever-adaptive mechanisms of capitalist domination." - Alana Lentin, Ethnic and Racial Studies

"Beyond Constraint serves as an invaluable work of contemporary political and social theory attempting to bridge anti-colonial, Black radical, and Indigenous thought." - Onni Ahvonen, Antipode