Although little studied, Indo-Caribbeans are a major part of the story of Asians in the Americas, and of Asian negotiations with both “Black” communities and hegemonic anti-Black social hierarchies. Indo-Caribbeans are West Indians of South Asian descent. They were the first and largest Asian indentured labor diaspora in the Americas. Until 1965, Indo-Caribbeans were also the largest South Asian population in the New World. Indo-Caribbeans’ ancestors were brought to the Caribbean by Britain’s “East Indian Indentured Labor Scheme” starting in 1838 after the abolition of chattel slavery in the British Empire. Their arrival in the Caribbean marked the first, and arguably most demographically significant, temporally continuous, and culturally significant encounter between “Africans” and “Asians” in the Americas. In this panel, we explore how Indo-Caribbeans in the West Indies and its diasporas have historically negotiated their status and identities in relation to Afro-West Indians, against a global context of anti-Blackness.