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The Police chasing University of the West Indies students who were demonstr...
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Figure 15. The Police chasing University of the West Indies students who were demonstrating against the banning of Walter Rodney, October 1968. © 1968 The Gleaner Co. (Media) Ltd.
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Pedagogy, Textured
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 73–78.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of being taught by Cooper in the mid- to late 1990s as a literature student at the University of the West Indies, Mona. These memories are lensed through a rereading of Cooper’s scholarship and also framed from the vantage point of the author being a university instructor now herself. Drawing from Cooper’s...
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Postcolonial Roadways: A Visual Dossier
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 167–178.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Figure 15. The Police chasing University of the West Indies students who were demonstrating against the banning of Walter Rodney, October 1968. © 1968 The Gleaner Co. (Media) Ltd. ...
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Caribbean Literary Historiography and the Jamaican Literary 1950s
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 164–180.
Published: 01 November 2020
... and institutions in Jamaica might tell us about the literary 1950s. Beginning by rethinking the historiographical gaze toward London, the author then raises key questions about what the narrative of the founding of the English department at the University College of the West Indies and the work of Focus magazine...
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After Empire: Training Lawyers as a Postcolonial Enterprise
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 38–56.
Published: 01 February 2008
..., Legal Education in the West Indies, 1963–1972 (Mona, Jamaica: University of the West
Indies, 1972), preface.
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Un-nationalisms of the Federated Archipelago
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 69–77.
Published: 01 March 2020
.... 31 Raymond Williams, Marxism and Literature (1977; repr., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 129–35. I use “con-federations” to highlight the space between the Confederación Antillana and the West Indies Federation. Copyright © 2020 by Small Axe, Inc. 2020 West Indies Federation...
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Una Marson at the BBC
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 1–28.
Published: 01 November 2015
...). The prominent Jamaican couple, Cedric and Gladys Lindo, would go on to play a leading role as regional representatives for the BBC, actively involved in consciousness raising about the BBC's West Indies programs in the Caribbean (once Marson's remit), and selecting stories for the now famous Caribbean Voices...
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West Indian Literature and Federation: Imaginative Accord and Uneven Realities
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 78–86.
Published: 01 March 2020
... institutions exist to keep alive the federal idea: the University of the West Indies, the all-conquering West Indian cricket team, and West Indian literature.” 6 Just as James’s speech draws on writers and their expansive imaginations to deliver the crescendo to his call for political unity, thereby...
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Con-Federating the Archipelago: Introduction
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 37–43.
Published: 01 March 2020
... at the end of World War II to formalize the project of the West Indies Federation as a transitional governing body that would usher the British colonies in the region from formal colonialism to self-rule. In 1945 the Caribbean Labour Commission backed a future federation based on universal adult suffrage...
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The Problem of Liberal Empire Reconsidered
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 167–177.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018), 37; hereafter cited in the text. 7 Uday Mehta, Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Liberal Thought (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999...
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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
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of Spain: Trinidad and Tobago Institute of the West Indies, 1999), 255. For more discussion of the literary dimension and
qualities of The Black Jacobins, see David Scott, Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment (Durham,
NC: Duke University Press, 2004).
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Barrack Yard Politics: From C. L. R. James’s The Case for West-Indian Self Government to Minty Alley
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 13–27.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., The Life of Captain Cipriani: An Account of British Government in the West Indies; with the Pamphlet “The Case for West-Indian Self Government” (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014), 115. 17 James, Life , 89. 18 C. L. R. James, The Case for West-Indian Self Government , in Life , 214...
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Empire in the Mine of History
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 185–193.
Published: 01 November 2019
... Literature of the British West Indies during the Period of Slavery,” in Roots (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993), 127–70. 26 See David Scott, Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004). 27 Foucault, Archaeology...
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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
...Raphael Dalleo Examining the West Indies Federation during the twentieth century against the backdrop of the US occupation of Haiti from 1915 to 1934 shows the complex roots of decolonization and helps us understand the occupation as a foundational event for the twentieth-century Caribbean...
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Footprints on the Sea: Finding Haiti in Caribbean Historiography
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 55–71.
Published: 01 March 2014
... through a foreword by Alain Locke, then professor of philosophy at Howard University, was to “set the West Indies meaningfully in the perspective of their historic past, as well as to present the problems of the present in challenging and constructive interpretation looking toward their future.” Locke's...
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Future Impossible Communities
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 96–102.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of the Spanish Caribbean (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019); and Nancy R. Mirabal, Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823–1957 (New York: New York University Press, 2017). 12 Raphael Dalleo, “Regionalism, Imperialism, and Sovereignty: West Indies...
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Caresser's Dominion: Race, Nation, and Calypso in Postwar Canada
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 29–55.
Published: 01 July 2015
... of proposals for Canadian–West Indies “union” and the infamous West Indian Domestic Scheme of the 1950s, Eldridge uncovers some of the more obscure origins of Canada's imperfect multiculturalism. I land in Montreal City Prepared to study At McGill University, Far away from the land of Iere [i.e...
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“The Unhomely Moment”: Frieda Cassin's Nineteenth-Century Antiguan Novel and the Construction of the White Creole
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 95–106.
Published: 01 July 2009
... contribution to this
issue, during her PhD oral examination at the Jamaican campus of the University of the West
Indies, one examiner suggested that she might consolidate her analysis of the construct white
in Jamaican literary and popular media with reference to work in “whiteness studies...
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The West Indian Writer and His Quarrel with History
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 60–74.
Published: 01 July 2012
... , vol. 1, Nature, Addresses, and Lectures , 4th ed. (New York: W. H. Wise, 1930), 143 30 Ibid., 10. 29 Derek Walcott, “The Figure of Crusoe” (unpublished paper, 1965, University of the West Indies Library, Trinidad), 11. 28 Derek Walcott, “The Almond Trees,” in The Castaway...
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Displacements: The Jamaican 1950s
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 53–64.
Published: 01 November 2020
... and the establishment of the University College of the West Indies (UCWI). 1 The 1949 elections resulted in another, though reduced, victory for the Jamaica Labour Party and the solidification of the two-party system. The 1950s saw many transitions: the beginnings of developmentalism in the aftermath of the Moyne...
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