Abstract
My research explores how Anti-Black racism synthesized with the anti-communism of the Cold War era, and formed a unique strain of ideological outlook which informs U.S. imperial policy in the Caribbean. My thesis seeks to center the Cuban and Grenadian Revolutions in order to articulate this racialized politique in practice. By exploring the history of slavery, the emergence of the U.S. as an imperial power, and Caribbean communism, my project looks to explicitly name and qualify racism and anti-communism's fusion, and articulate how imperialism in the Caribbean holds a uniquely intimate dynamic for the U.S.