Join us for a talk by Historian Dr. Chelsea Schields on her book Offshore Attachments: Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean which reveals how the contested management of sex and race transformed the Caribbean into a crucial site in the global oil economy. Dr. Schields demonstrates how Caribbean people both embraced and challenged efforts to alter intimate behavior in service to the energy economy. Moving from Caribbean oil towns to European metropolises and examining such issues as sex work, contraception, kinship, and the constitution of desire, Schields narrates a surprising story of how racialized concern with sex shaped hydrocarbon industries as the age of oil met the end of empire.