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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 97–127.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of the “sound-system” to the networks of local small-retail grocery shops, ubiquitous across Jamaica, that were owned and operated by Jamaican Chinese shopkeepers and examines how they formed material infrastructures. In charting the hardwiring of speakers and how the sociality of the shop housed the production...
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in Albums of Inclusion: The Photographic Poetics of Caribbean Chinese Visual Kinship
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 July 2018
Figure 1 Albert Chong, Addressing the Chinese-Jamaican Business Community , 1992. Gelatin silver print, 30 × 40 in.
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 69–75.
Published: 01 March 2024
... his own misrecognition as “chineyman” (Chinese Jamaican) and possible “battyman” (gay man) to uncover the heterosexual and patriarchal norms that also underwrite the race/nation imaginary. The following discussion is an attempt to extend some of the implications of Carnegie’s critique of racial...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 149–160.
Published: 01 March 2014
... as integral parts of the communities they serve, thus intervening in the way that the “shop,” and by extension Jamaican Chinese history, has been written. 14 Anshan, “Survival, Adaptation, and Integration,” 56. 15 Ibid. 16 Gail Bouknight-Davis, “Chinese Economic Development and Ethnic...
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in Bigger than the Sound: The Jamaican Chinese Infrastructures of Reggae
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2020
Figure 2 Map of Jamaican Chinese business infrastructure distribution across Jamaica, 1957–1963. The dot density (i.e., darker dots) on this map indicates multiple shops in one area. Designed by Tao Leigh Goffe, 2017 (Datawrapper)
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 1–17.
Published: 01 November 2014
... “authenticity” as a Chinese Jamaican but rather through her struggle to understand the meaning of this identity both for herself and for her community. 11 These multiple identifications are further complicated because Chin begins her memoir with more questions about her origins than answers. Her genealogical...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 35–56.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Figure 1 Albert Chong, Addressing the Chinese-Jamaican Business Community , 1992. Gelatin silver print, 30 × 40 in. ...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 March 2003
... the Miss Jamaica title in the pre-
independence era was a Chinese-Jamaican, in the immediate postindependence era of
the mid-1960s virtually no white- or Chinese-Jamaican women dared to enter because
of black nationalist interests; the Chinese, as part of the merchant class, were perceived...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 119–143.
Published: 01 July 2022
...? For one, her tutelage in wood carving came neither from her family business nor Chinese institution but from the Afro-Jamaican sculptor Winston Patrick. More importantly, I think, is that in trying to tie these direct lines to ethnonational antecedents, the main story in Chen’s practice is missed...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 56–76.
Published: 01 July 2015
... hinted at some immediate questions, other pressing Jamaican issues were evaded, particularly in a film featuring a half-Chinese villain with a Chinese entourage, in relation to the place of the island's Chinese minority within the new nation. Censuses showed that members of the seventy-thousand-strong...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 176–179.
Published: 01 March 2024
... and culture, African American literature and culture, theories of diaspora and transnationalism, and theories of race, gender, and sexuality. He has written on Chinese Jamaican literary and cultural production, Caribbean immigrants in African American literature, and homophobia in Black popular culture...
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in Bigger than the Sound: The Jamaican Chinese Infrastructures of Reggae
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2020
Figure 8 Sammy Chong’s huaqiao (overseas Chinese) passport, 1945. This type of passport was issued by the Chinese government to local-born Jamaican Chinese for travel to China. Courtesy of Kathleen (Kay) Chin
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 106–121.
Published: 01 March 2024
... in decline, that became established among the postemancipation peasantry; or the credit arrangements that were commonplace between Chinese-Jamaican shopkeepers and their customers; or the touching expressions of trust in the advice and direction offered by their coaches that so many Jamaican superstar...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (2): 49–71.
Published: 01 September 2002
...” phenotype. In Toronto, there is a strategic homogenization of “Jamai-
can” into Afro-Jamaican, despite the migration of Indo-Jamaican, Chinese-Jamaican,
and other numerical minorities. . is is performed through media portrayals, popular
cultural representations (such as reggae and dub...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 77–96.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of the PNP’s execution of its vision and, critically, of the Jamaican population itself, from these literary perspectives. With the PNP’s defeat in 1980, race and class relations quickly reverted to the status quo position of white (light) economic power/black subservience. The year would signify not only...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 24–45.
Published: 01 July 2022
... and Chinese indentured workers, since Africans blended with Afro-Jamaicans and the Chinese population had dwindled to 481 by 1891, Indians came to serve as the face of imported labor in the late-nineteenth-century photographs produced for Jamaican tourism. This essay argues that a “coolie picturesque...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 107–117.
Published: 01 July 2009
..., to my Jamaican eyes, startling. It was then I realized how insidiously manual
labour in Jamaica was calibrated with skin colour. Black people did all the hard, sweaty work;
occasionally, so would an Indian, and even more rarely, a Chinese worker. But it was the black...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 48–62.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Donette Francis Jamaican fiction published in the 1960s was fundamentally pessimistic. These writings drew from regional ontologies of religious millenarianism, colonial abjection, and racial damnation, as well as of existentialist philosophies of Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, to offer...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 97–111.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Rupert Lewis This essay examines the ideological and political circumstances in Jamaica and the anglophone Caribbean that led to the emergence of the Workers Party of Jamaica in 1978. It explores the ways Jamaican radicals in the 1970s appropriated and applied the ideas of Marx and Lenin...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 118–127.
Published: 01 July 2009
.... That is part of the paradox of
what it means to be a Jamaican. We’re strong and capable and good-looking because the
stewpot we come from is a blend of black, Indian, Chinese, and white, and seasoned with
the pepper of ole negar.
When I think of ole negar, I think...
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