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Against “Cultures of Hiatus”: History and the Archive in the Political Thought of John La Rose
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 39–54.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Chris Moffat This essay examines the relationship between a radical politics and the institution of the archive through a history of the George Padmore Institute (GPI), a community archive attached to New Beacon Books in London. Focusing on the life and thought of John La Rose (1927–2006...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 191–193.
Published: 01 March 2018
... Mary University of London. He writes on the history of political thought, public history, and the anthropology of history, with a particular focus on India and Pakistan. He has volunteered with the George Padmore Institute, London, since 2012. J ennifer L. M organ is a professor of history...
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“A Thorn in the Side of Great Britain”: C. L. R. James and the Caribbean Labour Rebellions of the 1930s
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 24–42.
Published: 01 July 2011
... for two years for sedition.
35 The main unions to emerge here were the Oilfield Workers’ Trade Union and the All Trinidad Sugar Estates and Factory
Workers’ Trade Union. See Ryan, Race and Nationalism in Trinidad and Tobago, 59.
36 See ibid., 60. George Padmore describes sitting next...
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Translation, Political Community, and Black Internationalism: Some Comments on Brent Hayes Edwards's The Practice of Diaspora
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 112–119.
Published: 01 March 2005
...: pp. 112–119
ISSN 0799-0537
cross-spatial phenomena—two or more nation-states, specifi cally national populations
or institutions. Fittingly, the literature, aesthetic, and political criticism generated by fi g-
ures such as René Maran, the Nardal sisters, and George Padmore are largely contingent...
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Regionalism, Imperialism, and Sovereignty: West Indies Federation and the Occupation of Haiti
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 61–68.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of federation, particularly Richard B. Moore and George Padmore, developed their political perspectives through responses to the occupation. We can thus see the questioning of nation-state independence and the critique of neocolonialism (as a form of US economic imperialism allied with elites in the neocolony...
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C. L. R. James and George Lamming: The Measure of Historical Time
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 39–70.
Published: 01 September 2003
... of
black historical consciousness, shaped decisively by the tenets of historical materialism.
Th is brings us to C. L. R. James and to his close ally and friend, George Padmore.
When in 1968 James was fi rst explicitly naming the tradition of West Indian intel-
lectuals, he identifi...
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Montreal 1968 and the Last Colonial Generation
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 195–205.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., Langston Hughes, and James Ford. Moore also worked with George Padmore in New York City, when Padmore first joined the Communist Party in the late 1920s, and they collaborated in the American Negro Labor Congress and as editors of the Negro Champion . 30 This was almost a decade before Padmore worked...
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Anticolonial Radicals in Different Registers: On Otto and Hermina Huiswoud’s Black Communism
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 87–109.
Published: 01 November 2024
... the Caribbean to recruit delegates for the First International Conference of Negro Workers in Hamburg. 14 Finally, following George Padmore’s departure from the Communist Party in 1934, Otto Huiswoud took charge of the ITUCNW, trying to keep it alive until its dissolution in 1937. 15 Like her future...
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An Intimate History of Empire
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 175–185.
Published: 01 March 2021
... on the children’s behalf. The Trinidadian journalist and organizer George Padmore also publicized the issue on the other side of the Atlantic through his regular contributions to the African American press. The individual who likely was most responsible for Padmore’s interest in the fate of mixed-race children...
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Locating the Transnational in Postwar African American History
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 193–202.
Published: 01 March 2009
... of Caribbean and African
activists and cemented comradely friendships with George Padmore and Kwame Nkrumah,
among others. With his wife, Elizabeth, also a sociologist, Drake conducted research in the
Gold Coast colony on the impact of mass media on West African youth and its implications
for national...
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Introduction to Walter Rodney
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Small Axe (2001) 5 (2): 60–65.
Published: 01 September 2001
... of Marxism; the Russian Revolution;
Caribbean politics; Shakespeare’s King Lear; cricket; George Padmore; and African
independence. Moreover, James, on the heels of his Workers’ and Farmers’ Party defeat
to Eric William’s PNM in the 1966 elections in Trinidad, not only made...
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Obeah Acts: Producing and Policing the Boundaries of Religion in the Caribbean
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2009
... not themselves prosecuted, the
40 Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah, Magic, Science, Religion, and the Scope of Rationality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
41 George Eaton Simpson, Religious Cults of the Caribbean: Trinidad, Jamaica, and Haiti (Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico: Institute of Carib-
bean...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 208–210.
Published: 01 July 2020
... Angeles. He is the author of Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean (2017). He is currently working on two projects: a history of the African origins of racial capitalism, and a political and intellectual history of Pan-Africanism, tentatively titled George Padmore: Decolonization...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 239–242.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Colonized the Caribbean (2017), and is currently working on two projects: a history of the African origins of racial capitalism and a political and intellectual history of Pan-Africanism, tentatively titled George Padmore: Decolonization and the Pan-African Century. AlyssA A. l. JAMes is a doctoral...
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The Sovereignty of the Imagination: An Interview with George Lamming
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (2): 72–200.
Published: 01 September 2002
... for another
generation as a result of the break with Williams. . ere is a generation that is now
68. George Padmore is a profoundly under-studied fi gure. . e standard work on his life and work is still James R.
Hooker, Black Revolutionary: George Padmore’s Path...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 225–228.
Published: 01 November 2024
... Press. L eslie J ames is a senior lecturer in global history at Queen Mary University, London. She is the author of George Padmore and Decolonisation from Below (2015) and has published essays in Callaloo , American Historical Review , Comparatives Studies in Society and History...
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Peter Abrahams’s Island Fictions for Freedom
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 84–101.
Published: 01 March 2021
... and George Padmore. 10 He could be the “conscience of Pan-Africanism.” 11 Eleven years later, in the 1967 Ebony piece “Peter Abrahams in Jamaica”—meant to publicize his 1966 novel This Island Now —Abrahams was still elated. 12 “In the Caribbean islands, especially in Jamaica,” he explained, “have...
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Introduction: Public Secrets and the Archives of Black Internationalism
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 83–86.
Published: 01 November 2024
... conflictual project with some of the leading anti-colonial radicals of the early to mid-twentieth century, figures like Marcus Garvey and George Padmore but also leading figures of the Harlem Renaissance such as Claude McKay and Langston Hughes. While the Huiswouds’ political activity is known among a small...
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Pebbles of Consonance: A Reply to Critics
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 134–149.
Published: 01 March 2005
... from the political horizon of the attempt of George Padmore and
Tiemoko Garan Kouyaté to organize the Congrès Mondial Nègre. It is precisely the
black radical will to imagine that articulates the singularity of the literary with the soci-
ality of the organizational Whereas Stephens...
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Afterword: The Black Archives and the Archive of Black Marxism
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 157–162.
Published: 01 November 2024
... on the Negro Worker following George Padmore’s resignation as editor in 1933, Leslie James in her essay here brilliantly locates the Huiswouds in a network of overlapping radicalisms in the 1930s Caribbean. She places them within a broad frame of Caribbean intellectual history that, given linguistic lines...
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