The Caribbean is at the heart of the Americas in many ways. Yet its

historical and contemporary effect on the US, and traffic between the two

is sometimes reduced in magnitude or scope because of a reliance on

demographic data that highlights the small numbers of its diaspora relative

to other racial and ethnic groups in the US. Those small numbers seem to

justify the use of comparative approaches in which a pan-Caribbean

categorisation is used to represent the Anglophone, Francophone, and