Table of Contents

Introduction: Our Caribbean Kin

1   The Emancipated Sons: Nineteenth-Century Transcolonial Kinship Narratives in the Antilles

2   Wife, Food, and a Bed of His Own: Marriage, Family, and Nationalist Kinship in the 1930s

3   Like Family: (Un)recognized Siblings and the Haitian-Dominican Family

4   Family Secrets: Brotherhood, Passing, and the Dominican–Puerto Rican Family

Coda: On Kinship and Solidarity