Nicole Burrowes
My scholarship reflects and informs emerging directions in African Diaspora Studies, with a focus on 20th century Caribbean and African-American history. My interests include social movements, racial capitalism, Black Internationalism, and the politics of solidarity. My book, Seeds of Solidarity: African-Indian Relations and the 1935 Labor Rebellions in British Guiana, explores the historical possibility of a movement forged by those at the edges of empire in the midst of economic, political, and environmental crises, and is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press in 2026. My intervention is three-pronged: to center the 1930s and working people in the development of modern politics in the Caribbean; to expand the framework of “overlapping diasporas;” and, by examining the seeds of solidarity, to counter generations of hegemonic narratives that focus exclusively on racial discord.