You know, there's a way U.S. scholars are completely uninterested in Claude McKay *as* Jamaican, and will happily use "Black Diaspora" and "Black Atlantic" to unthink Jamaica.

It irritates me. A lot.
More generally, there's a way "transnationalism" and "globalism" and even "postcolonial" are used to deracinate Black writers, which often means to disengage from radical Black politics and ongoing concerns.
Or people are simply lazy and don't want to put in the time it would require to know enough about Jamaica or Grenada or Barbados or Uganda or Zambia to write sensibly about people they will happily celebrate as cosmopolitan, or whatever deracinating term is in vogue.
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