John Drabinski accomplishes what Paul Gilroy inaugurated three decades prior: the centering of the Atlantic Ocean to comprehend our modern world. Atlantic Theory probes the event of the Middle Passage and nuances of Africana philosophy, Caribbean thought, and vernacular culture. Furthermore, it delves into processes of decolonization and creolization that demonstrate how thinkers ranging from Angela Davis and Aimé Césaire to Édouard Glissant and Emmanuel Levinas present interweaving narratives of refusal, beauty, inheritance, and freedom in relation. Our experiences of relation and attendant vicissitudes are key facets of the human condition, as are, as Drabinski reveals, acts of reconciliation and new beginnings.