M. Jacqui Alexander
The themes of her work have captured a range of social justice subjects from the effects of imperialism, colonialism, and enslavement with special attention paid to the "pathologizing narratives" around homosexuality, gender, nationalism.
She was denied tenure, and thus spurred a student and faculty movement called the "Mobilization for Real Diversity, Democracy, and Economic Justice"[6] due to her being a popular professor but also on the basis of discrimination.
During her time at Connecticut College, Alexander organized a series of conferences and campus events, drawing multiracial feminist scholars including Angela Davis, Chrystos, Dionne Brand, Cherrí Moraga, Sonia Sanchez, Adrienne Rich, Mitsuye Yamada, and more.
[11][7] Some of the activities done at the Tobago Centre are as follows: Her publications include Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures (co-edited with Chandra Talpade Mohanty); Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray!
[14] M. Jaqui Alexander uses the legislation passed in the 90's to illustrate the ways in which colonialist and imperialist thought has been implemented in the Caribbean in order to promote institutions of patriarchal heteronomativity in the financially vulnerable Islands.
These pieces of legislation, i.e. the Sexual Offenses Act and Structural Adjustment policies; while executed with good intentions, only serve to promote the fetishization and commodification of Caribbean culture and the Black bodies that reside there.
[15] Because of this, the IMF and World Bank were given the leverage to be able to impose large scale structural adjustment policies upon the island nation and collect an absorbent amount of interest.
The journal entry itself is split into five sections that address various issues that Jaqui Alexander has found regarding “the politics of law, sexuality, and postcoloniality” in the island nation.
M. Jaqui Alexander uses this section[17] to address the way that colonial rule naturalized whiteness through the simultaneous racialization and sexualization of black bodies.
This result is addressed in section four, State nationalism, globalization and privatization, where the effect of women taking on public responsibility has added fuel to the proverbial fire.
