"Focusing on the complexities behind Caribbean mediascapes, Jossianna Arroyo’s Caribes 2.0 represents an important and timely contribution to Caribbean, Latin American, Latinx, Afro-diasporic, media, and cultural studies. This provocative study does not shy away from addressing controversial topics (such as blackface) or lesser-known figures and cultural products, thus offering us a blueprint for engaging in the critical analysis of various forms of cultural expression, even those that have not been traditionally considered ‘worthy’ of academic attention because of race or class origins."
~Latino Studies
"Jossianna Arroyo’s Caribes 2.0 brings a variety of understudied sources to light, providing a fruitful addition to media scholarship and Caribbean studies. Most strikingly, her work forms part of a wave of Caribbean scholarship that regards the visual prominence of Black and brown death and precarity in processes of racialization. Caribes 2.0 will prove especially useful to researchers of contemporary Caribbean cultural production and virtual economies."
~Film Quarterly
"Jossianna Arroyo offers a magistral deconstruction of 21st-century forms of necropolitics insidiously wielded via Twitter, Youtube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and other digital platforms; television; and literary and cinematic production. With sophisticated straightforwardness, Arroyo compels us to critically look at the too-familiar imagery accompanying the invention and reproduction of Caribbean otherness across centuries and nations."
~Odette Casamayor-Cisneros, associate professor of Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, University of Pennsylvania
“Caribes 2.0 offers canny insight into the logics of visibility, performance and politics that blossom in the mediascapes of a globalized Caribe. Refusing easy takes, the book tracks the afterlives of slavery and ongoing anti-Black racism as they morph and reassemble in twenty-first-century Caribbean media. Moving seamlessly between TikTok and Televisa, Santo Domingo and Orlando, Arroyo offers fascinating readings of what 'viral' racial images and outlaw performativity reveal about neoliberal codes for self-making—and their refusal.”
~Rachel Price, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University
