Citizenship from BelowCitizenship from Below boldly revises the history of the struggles for freedom by emancipated peoples in post slavery Jamaica, post independence Haiti, and the wider Caribbean by focusing on the interplay between the state, the body, race, and sexuality. Mimi Sheller offers a new theory of "citizenship from below" to describe the contest between "proper" spaces of legitimate high politics and the disavowed politics of lived embodiment. While