BOOK DATA Jossianna Arroyo, Caribes 2.0: New Media, Globalization, and the Afterlives of Disaster. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2023. $120.00 cloth; $29.95 paper; $29.95 e-book. 198 pages.

Jossianna Arroyo’s Caribes 2.0: New Media, Globalization, and the Afterlives of Disaster examines an ambitiously wide body of televisual and digital material from the hispanophone Caribbean to frame media performances of blackness and brownness as events where the terms of Caribbean visibility, invisibility, and hypervisibility are negotiated. While Arroyo acknowledges the discursive leverage of respectability politics, her focus lies on the structural and affective conditions that enable the terms of Caribbean visibility throughout the region and its diasporic networks. Caribes 2.0 considers how the production of racial images in Caribbean mediascapes reproduces symbolic echo chambers that organize blackness and brownness into an assemblage of stereotypical performances. On this basis, Arroyo argues that artists and content creators participate in the Caribbean...

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