Alexandra Chang is Curator of Special Projects and Director of Global Arts Programs at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University and the author of Envisioning Diaspora: Asian American Visual Arts Collectives, from Godzilla, Godzookie, to the Barnstormers.
Steven Y. Wong is Curator at the Chinese American Museum.
Mar Hollingsworth is Visual Arts Curator and Program Manager at the California African American Museum
Evelyn Hu-DeHart is Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University.
Preface. California African American Museum / Mar Hollingsworth 6
Preface. Chinese American Museum / Steven Y. Wong 7
Introduction. Coolies, Shopkeepers, and Artists: A Historical Overview of Chinese Immigrants and Their Descendants in the Caribbean / Evelyn Hu-DeHart 9
Circles and Circuits: Chinese Caribbean Art / Alexandra Chang 14
Artists in the Exhibition 58
A Historical Context for Chinese Migration / Walton Look Lai 150
Intersecting Trajectories: Chinese and Indian Artists in Trinidad in the Early Twentieth Century / Patricia Mohammed 158
Past - Present: Conversations with Maria Lau and Katarina Wong / Julia P. Herzberg 178
Caribbean Art and Chinese Imaginaries / Sean Metzger 196
Diasporic Affect: Circulating Art, Producing Rationality / Lok Siu 214
Works in the Exhibition 222
Acknowledgements 228
Paper ISBN: 978-0-9987451-0-7