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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 175–186.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Charisse Burden-Stelly This essay offers a critical engagement with historian Peter James Hudson’s groundbreaking text Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean . It begins with an analysis of Hudson’s detailed account of the entanglements of the internationalization of US banking...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 187–196.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Brenda Gayle Plummer This discussion of Peter James Hudson’s Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean focuses on the way transnational banks are revealed to be players of multiple roles in the development of past and present Caribbean economies. The banks were hardly mere...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 197–207.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Peter James Hudson This essay offers a response to two critical commentaries—from diplomatic historian Brenda Gayle Plummer and political theorist Clarisse Burden-Stelly—on the author’s Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean . While locating both commentaries under...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 63–88.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Guillermina De Ferrari Inspired by the enigmatic phrase “Le poème tué” (the murdered poem) that the author saw written on the walls of Port-au-Prince, this essay explores street art in Port-au-Prince as staging a public debate about different ways of approaching a life of precarity and crisis...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 178–184.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012), 3. 13 Kincaid, A Small Place , 42. 14 Ibid., 41–42. 15 Ibid., 43. 16 Ibid., 23–24. 17 Ibid., 9–10. 18 Peter James Hudson, Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 61–68.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of the First National City Bank (today’s Citigroup) in advocating for, controlling, and profiting from the occupation. The article, titled “Government of, by, and for the National City Bank,” uncovers the close intertwining of US imperialism and Wall Street profiteering, with the bank managing to use...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 179–180.
Published: 01 March 2012
... on African Canadian thought and completing the manuscript “Dark Finance: Wall Street and the West Indies, 1873–1933.” Erica Moiah James is an assistant professor in the Departments of the History of Art and African American Studies at Yale University. Prior to joining the Yale faculty, she served...
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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 (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 200–202.
Published: 01 March 2014
... at Vanderbilt University. His essays have appeared in Small Axe , Radical History Review , Race and Class , and Transition: An International Review , and he is currently completing a manuscript titled “Dark Finance: Wall Street and the West Indies, 1873–1933.” He is coediting “Black Canada,” a special issue...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 263–265.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of California, Los Angeles. He is author of Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean (2017). His essays, reviews, and commentary have appeared in the Black Agenda Review , the Boston Review , Haiti Liberté , Small Axe , the Radical History Review , and Race and Class , among other...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 239–242.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., the Boston Review, and the Amerasia Journal. She is a founding coeditor of the Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies. Peter JAMes hudson is an associate professor of African American studies and history at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 22–43.
Published: 01 July 2017
... January 2016. An estimated 50,000 Haitians lived in France as of 2010; see “France Suspends Expulsion of Illegal Haitians,” Wall Street Journal , 14 January 2010. The largest Haitian population in the Caribbean (outside Haiti) is in the Dominican Republic, which hosts an estimated 450,000 Haitian...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 145–156.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of Blacks, Latinx, and Asians to mobilize behind the charismatic then senator. Soon after his election in 2008, many of his followers discovered a painful truth: the limits of hope during an unexpected financial crisis. Promises of healing and reconciliation stalled as speculative Wall Street investments...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 22–37.
Published: 01 March 2014
..., the English, the Yankees, from the days of the Emperor Charles V and his bankers, the Fuggers to our own ‘good-neighbour’ days and the Wall Street financiers.” 12 And yet, perhaps because of an approach that seeks to understand the totality of the plantation, the financial eras described by Ortiz...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2012
..., his indictment of Cuban president Gerardo Machado y Morales’s regime, the regime’s ties to US imperialism, and the purported economic control of the country by Wall Street financial institutions like the National City Bank and the Chase National Bank.63 Both Beals’s book and Evans’s images...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 136–153.
Published: 01 July 2013
... York: El Museo del Barrio, the Queens Museum of Art, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, 2012, caribbeancrossroads.org/ (accessed 13 July 2012); Tom Freudenheim, “Tropical Ambition,” Wall Street Journal , 8 August 2012; “Three Museums Partner on Major Caribbean Exhibit,” repeatingislands.com/2012/02...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 184–188.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Donnette Zacca Small Axe, Inc. 2010 Street Art as I See It: A Photographic Document Donnette Zacca There was a time when what was on the minds of the people echoed through the local untrained yet extremely talented artists. The neighborhood walls became blank...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 1–23.
Published: 01 July 2022
... in dealing with the aftermath of the storm. They had lived through what various analysts have called an “unnatural,” or “not-so-natural,” “manufactured” disaster, 8 a disaster long waiting to happen, created by the negligence of the colonial government’s $73 billion indebtedness to Wall Street hedge funds...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 167–178.
Published: 01 November 2017
... and economic elites almost immediately ran into a crisis in their approach to tackling these legacies in pursuit of development. This crisis expressed itself in several ways, and four are highlighted in a photo exhibition: the Coral Gardens Incident of 1963; the government bulldozing of Back-a-Wall and Shanty...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 138–142.
Published: 01 July 2015
... for security patrols to observe our premises. It is important, she feels, to see your neighbors and for them to see you. This is Jamaica, I tell her. In Jamaica you have to think about security, and, besides, the wall doesn't cut us off from our neighbors. The wall conceals us from the street. We need...