...Kevon Rhiney This essay draws on Jovan Scott Lewis’s Scammer’s Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica (2020), a rich ethnographic study of lottery scammers in Jamaica and the ethical logic they use to justify scamming as a form of reparations, to think about the limits of Black reparative...

...Patricia Noxolo In a discussion of Jovan Scott Lewis’s Scammer’s Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica (2020), the book is considered as ethnography written from “inside the circle” (Sadiya Hartman) of a generation of young Black men brought up in Jamaica. Nonetheless, Lewis shows genuine...

...: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica (2020)—the crime of poverty—the essay explores how emerging anti–money laundering / combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regulatory policies are changing the terrain of struggle to recuperate and repudiate the devaluation of Black life in the Caribbean...

...Jovan Scott Lewis In this response essay, the author returns to his arguments in Scammer’s Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica (2020) to further consider the limits of repair as advanced by the book’s crew of Jamaican lottery scammers. The author reconsiders some of the arguments to examine...

... in and chair of the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. His research examines the questions of racial capitalism, underdevelopment, and repair. He is author of Scammer’s Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica (2020). His book on the consequences of the 1921 Tulsa race...

... Indies Press, 2013). 37 See Jovan Scott Lewis, Scammer’s Yard: The Crime of Black Repair (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021). ...

... of Black Repair in Jamaica (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020), 2. 6 See Barry Chevannes, “Jamaican Diasporic Identity: The Metaphor of Yaad ,” in Patrick Taylor, ed., Nation Dance: Religion, Identity, and Cultural Difference in the Caribbean (Bloomington: Indiana University Press...

... the works of David Scott and Deborah Thomas referenced here. 7 See, for example, Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016); and Deborah A. Thomas, Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair (Durham, NC: Duke...

... to those who had trespassed against him and against his people. Mandela appeared to embody in his person and personality the sublime spirit of the new age of reconciliation. He redeemed the racial sins of white South Africans; and he solicited from blacks a willingness to forsake revenge, to relinquish...

...! (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2011), 201–2; Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016), 7. ...

...-López, “Debt, Crisis, and Resurgence in Puerto Rico,” Small Axe , no. 62 (July 2020): 124. 7 On Ifá and Pan-African circulations, see N. Fadeke Castor, Spiritual Citizenship: Transnational Pathways from Black Power to Ifá in Trinidad (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017); on obeah, see...

...—the move from “victim to victor” (in the words of Cosby and Poussaint) is central to the narrative of coherency in the assumption that black manhood is an impoverished mas- culinity in need of repair and or rescue, and the unspoken is that a good douse of patriarchy would do it well...

... of this phenomenon appears in Deborah A. Thomas, Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Production of Culture in Jamaica (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004). 44 Deborah A. Thomas, Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica (Durham, NC: Duke University Press...

... © Small Axe, Inc. 2024 A ndré B rock is an associate professor of media studies at Georgia Tech. He writes on Western technoculture and Black cybercultures; his scholarship examines race in social media, video games, blogs, and other digital media. His book, Distributed Blackness...

... political engagement will remain a precious inheritance for Antillean generations to come. Number 26 • June 2008 Co n t e n t s Introduction: On the Archaeologies of Black Memory David Scott v Venus in Two Acts Saidiya Hartman 1 King Menelik’s Nephew: Prince Thomas Mackarooroo, aka...

... work has been published in several journals, including Critical Ethnic Studies, Contemporary Political Theory, and the CLR James Journal. She is a coeditor (with Anthony Bogues) of the Black Critique book series at Pluto Press and is currently working on a book manuscript, The Interminable Catas...

... Small Axe Incorporated 2008 Contributors Anthony Bogues is Harmon Family Professor and current chair of the Africana Studies Department at Brown University. He is the author of Caliban’s Freedom: The Early Political Thought of C. L. R. James (1997); Black Heretics, Black Prophets...

... dimension. In his carefully considered introductions to these volumes, Hill advances a revisionist conception, not only of the centrality of the Caribbean to the whole institution and expansion of the UNIA but also, reciprocally, of the ethos of Garvey's doctrine of black self-determination...

... E. Franklin Frazier about how to understand the social life of Black people across the Americas continues to shape Caribbean anthropology today. 36 At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Carnegie’s Postnationalism Prefigured was part of a chorus of voices from Caribbean anthropologists...

...,” Review of Black Political Economy 8, no. 2 (1978): 154. 13 Several joint publications and workshop proceedings emerged from these conversations. See Kurt Hoffman and Norman Girvan, Managing International Technology Transfer: A Strategic Approach for Developing Countries (Ottawa...