Buyers Beware: Insurgency and Consumption in Caribbean Popular Culture (Rutgers University Press) by US-based Trinidadian scholar Patricia Joan Saunders examines phenomena such as dancehall culture and “sistah lit” which “proudly jettison any aspirations towards middle-class respectability.” The book asks “how their ‘pulp’ preoccupation with contemporary fashion, music, sex, fast food, and television, is instructive for how race, class, gender, sexuality, and national politics are constructed, performed, interpreted, disseminated, and consumed from within the Caribbean.”