..., trying to understand things. And those three things I think were important. By the time I'm about fourteen, fifteen, and the civil rights movement is beginning to emerge; or rather, we are beginning to be aware in Jamaica. I am now reading Black literature and reading it very hard . So by the time I am...

... Black Power? •  •  •  • Prologue The year is 1968 in Kingston, Jamaica. Since 1962, the island of Jamaica, with a human population comprised primarily of the descendents of African slaves, had been politically independent. After enduring over four hundred years...

... African general election, and I had been in South Africa for five weeks as part of the Commonwealth Election Observers’ Mission. Then I was coming from Jamaica, where I had been active for some time in national liberation struggles. That activism not only demanded domestic...

... had very little conception of being anything called “West Indian” while I was in Barbados. Barbados was Barbados, and that was that. The whole colonial policy in a way frustrated and did not allow too much cross-connections between islands—Barbados did not have much to do with St. Lucia or Jamaica...

... in the fields of political thought and critical theory, Caribbean intellectual history, and Caribbean art. He is currently working on a book titled Black Critique and a book/sonic project on politics and music in Jamaica during the 1970s. He joined the boundary 2 editorial collective in 2000. Arne De...

... for Caribbean Thought, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. He is the author of Caliban’s Freedom: Early Political Thought of CLR James; Black Heretics, Black Prophets: Radical Political Intellectuals; Empire of Liberty: Power and Desire (forthcoming); and the editor of After Man, Towards the Human...

... when it seemed that Africa would lead the world in a new way of politics and rule, would redefine politics—in that moment, we remember a possibility, and in that memory we have hope. I met Mandela twice, once in Jamaica and then again in South Africa on the eve of the 1994 general election...

... of the Imagination (Kingston, Jamaica: Arawak Publications, 2004), 29–30. Bogues / Working Outside Criticism 85 physical senses that made it possible and render it intelligible as the result of human work 48 In response to textuality, Said suggests that ‘‘the realities...

.... On the contrary. Consider, as a concluding if not conclusive example, how Jamaica Kincaid addresses a potential tourist in A Small Place: “You must not wonder what exactly happened to the contents of your lavatory when you flushed it. You must not wonder where your bathwater went when you pulled out...

...: Univer- sity of Minnesota Press, 2011. Taussig, Michael. I Swear I Saw This: Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. Thomas, Deborah A. Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011...

..., bandleader, and multimedia performer. Her installations have been presented at the Whitney Biennial, Ronald Feldman Gallery, and the Jamaica Cen- ter for Arts and Learning. She holds an MFA in poetry from Hunter College, and a PhD in Performance Studies from New York University. Dr. Morris...

... at the Center for African Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Between 1989–1992, he was special assistant to the late prime minister, Michael Manley, of Jamaica and was a common- wealth observer to the 1994 election in South Africa. Susan Buck-Morss­ is distinguished professor...

... . Holt Thomas C. 1992 . The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832–1938 . Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press . ،ميلعتو ةّيبرتلا ةرازو رشن:ةرهاقلا) ىناوهلإا داؤف دمحأ روتكدلا قيقحت ،قتنملا :٤زوج ،ءافشلا ،انيس نبا .(١٩٥٨ ،ةفاقثلل ةماعلا ةرادلإا...

...-veterans-car . Long Edward . 1774 . The History of Jamaica: Or, General Survey of the Antient and Modern State of That Island [. . .] . Volume 2 . London : T. Lowndes . Nelson Caleb . 2016 . “ The Constitutionality of Civil Forfeiture .” Yale Law Journal 125 , no. 8 : 2446...

... in Jamaica and the Caribbean, and quickly became preoccupied with that most important This is an edited version of a talk delivered as the Marta Sutton Weeks Distinguished Visitor at the Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, in February 2012. I wish to thank both the staff and director...

... literary book in Pidgin might be 1972’s Chalookyu Eensai: Three Poems in Pidgin English (Hono- lulu: Sandwich Islands Publishing, Inc., 1972), by “Bradajo” (Jozuf Hadley). The first liter- ary book in the Caribbean Creole might be Claude McKay’s two 1912 collections, Songs of Jamaica (London: Jamaica...

...” does not continue to offer a particularly and even idiosyncratically focused lens on modernity, albeit one that may be akin to those offered by, say, Palestine or Jamaica, for reasons embedded in their intersecting histories. In a very real sense, the exception—to which colonial Ireland was more often...

... into an agricultural and scenic paradise 25 Similar colonial-capitalist enclosures of land occurred in Jamaica, Barbados, and throughout a number of African territories.26 As more land was enclosed, more men were legally considered to be ‘‘masterless because they could not prove they were tied...

... in the resonances of par- ticular expressions: dance in Costa Rica, in relation to dance in Jamaica, in relation to dance in Alabama . . . Of course, this conception of the subject is a very familiar one. We know this is the concept of the subject we find in Hegel, this is the concept of the subject we were...

... somebody who sold out class on behalf of other forms of identity. Stuart Hall's trajectory is really interesting. If he's the single most important figure in cultural studies, and I think it's arguable that he is, he was a middle-class kid in Jamaica whose mother had pretensions and didn't want him hanging...