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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 34–56.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Joan Flores-Villalobos This essay explores the archival presence of West Indian women in the archives of the Isthmian Canal Commission, the biggest repository of original documents regarding the construction of the Panama Canal. Using a 1909 photograph of a nude black West Indian woman found...
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in “Freak Letters”: Tracing Gender, Race, and Diaspora in the Panama Canal Archive
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 July 2019
Figure 3 “Typical home of West Indian laborer, Golden Green,” Panama Canal Zone, ca. 1908. Photograph by Ernest Hallen. National Archives and Records Administration Still Pictures Department.
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in “Freak Letters”: Tracing Gender, Race, and Diaspora in the Panama Canal Archive
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 July 2019
Figure 5 Untitled photograph, 1910, Tabernilla, Panama Canal Zone; 5 × 7 in. Photographer unknown. Records of the Panama Canal, National Archives at College Park, MD. National Archives and Records Administration.
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in “Freak Letters”: Tracing Gender, Race, and Diaspora in the Panama Canal Archive
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 July 2019
Figure 2 “Teatime in the private residence of Division Engineer Col. Gaillard and his wife,” Panama Canal Zone, ca. 1908. Photograph by Ernest Hallen (official photographer of the Isthmian Canal Commission). National Archives and Records Administration Still Pictures Department.
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 164–166.
Published: 01 July 2019
...-Latina/o/x experience, and mobile segregation. J oan F lores -V illalobos earned her PhD from New York University and is now an assistant professor of history at The Ohio State University. Her book manuscript, “The Silver Women: Intimacy and Migration in the Panama Canal,” explores the labor...
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in “Freak Letters”: Tracing Gender, Race, and Diaspora in the Panama Canal Archive
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 July 2019
Figure 4 Anonymous, “GIRL—for cocking and general housework,” 1922, newspaper clipping on paper, 8.5 × 11 in. Records of the Panama Canal, National Archives at College Park, MD. National Archives and Records Administration.
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 37–54.
Published: 01 March 2015
... protagonist, Bita Plant, is educated in England through the benevolence of the local, white missionary couple, Malcolm and Priscilla Craig. One possible suitor is Hopping Dick Delgado, a young man newly returned from the Panama Canal Zone with Panama Gold. Ultimately, Bita chooses Jubban, a simple peasant...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 15–31.
Published: 01 November 2023
... the Panama Canal (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023), 2. 13 Virginia Pérez-Ratton, “Invisible Caribbean: A View from Central America,” in Deborah Cullen and Elvis Fuentes, eds., Caribbean: Art at the Crossroads of the World (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012), 137...
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in “Freak Letters”: Tracing Gender, Race, and Diaspora in the Panama Canal Archive
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 July 2019
Figure 1 F. E. Wright, “The Washing Place at Taboga,” 1913, watercolor. From Willis John Abbot, Panama and the Canal in Picture and Prose (New York: Syndicate, 1913).
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 7–21.
Published: 01 March 2014
..., The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal (New York: Penguin, 2009); Jason M. Colby, The Business of Empire: United Fruit, Race, and US Expansion in Central America (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011). © Small Axe, Inc. 2014 Borderlands are wider than borders...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 244–246.
Published: 01 November 2013
... diaspora studies program. Her research interests include contemporary popular fiction, literatures of the African diaspora, cultural studies, and narratives of migration. She is the author of “Colón Man a Come”: Mythographies of Panamá Canal Migration (2005) and articles published in peer-reviewed...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 1–16.
Published: 01 March 2019
... an imperial power at a time when Haiti’s state and its sovereignty were increasingly under threat. Toward the end of 1904, the Times in London ran an article on Haitian objections to the expansion of the territorial claims of the United States in the Caribbean, specifically in regard to the Panama Canal...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 175–186.
Published: 01 July 2020
... was the Panama Canal. Alongside war, racial hierarchy is endemic in racial capitalism insofar as it arranges and violently includes nations and peoples in the international order. Hierarchy designates, according to political theorist Adom Getachew, “processes of integration and interaction that produce...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 February 2006
... of the organization was signifi cant in those countries where British Caribbean
islanders had gone in search of work, from the Panama Canal and railroads and banana
plantations in Central America to the sugar centraless in the Dominican Republic and
Cuba Th e latter country emerged as one of the more fertile...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 1–15.
Published: 01 July 2021
... (the risk of German spies passing for refugees and Haiti’s proximity to the Panama Canal, a geostrategic and economic asset) and the assumption of cultural incommensurability between Haitians and Jews led to between 150 and 183 Jewish refugees reaching Haiti. 24 Under the dictatorship of President Rafael...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 50–70.
Published: 01 March 2013
... waves of emigration that began after the turn of the century, when the Panama Canal project was revived by the United States, in 1904, and banana cultivation in Costa Rica rapidly expanded. The third wave was the one that took approximately one hundred thousand West Indians to the United States by 1924...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 143–165.
Published: 01 November 2012
... to do
what these women would end up doing: domestic work. While others from Guadeloupe were
going to the Panama Canal in search of economic opportunities, or were going to New York
seeking families to work for (as was probably the case for the women in the photographs...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 56–67.
Published: 01 November 2018
... articulations of labor organizing in the circum-Caribbean in this period, as recent work on the strategies of Caribbean workers in Panama in the 1910s has argued. Thus Risa L. Fausette, in a compelling discussion of the activism of Caribbean dockworkers during the Isthmian dock strike in 1919, posits...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 95–115.
Published: 01 March 2003
.... Economic migration within the Caribbean region and to the North
(United States, Britain, and Canada) is not a new phenomenon. From the building of
the Panama Canal to migration to Cuba, the Dominican Republic, small islands like St.
Lucia and St. Kitts, western Europe (especially Britain), and North...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 61–83.
Published: 01 September 2004
... was strategically impor- tant for the U.S. government s defense against possible European aggression against the Panama Canal and the U.S. mainland Indeed, military bases occupy prime areas on the hundred-mile-long by thirty-fi ve-mile-wide main island, and US armed forces have conducted hazardous missile testing...
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