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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 29–55.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Michael Eldridge Just after World War II, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation hired the Trinidadian calypsonian Lord Caresser to host a weekly program airing on its nationwide network and its fledgling International Service. His engagement, this essay argues, had less to do with “carry[ing...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 1–13.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel Suzanne Césaire's essays in Tropiques make an important intervention in imagining a new Martinican and ultimately Pan-Caribbean identity during World War II. This study examines Césaire's joint politics and poetics of liberation in the context of dissidence in Martinique...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 27–40.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Hazel V. Carby Excerpts from Carby's autobiography-in-progress, “Child of Empire: Racializing Subjects in Post World War II Britain.” Small Axe Incorporated 2009 Lost (and Found?) in Translation
Hazel V. Carby
Historical authenticity resides not in the fidelity to an alleged past...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 98–111.
Published: 01 March 2009
... World War II Britain.” Small Axe Incorporated 2009 Autobiography Out of Empire
Lisa Lowe
On the twentieth anniversary of Reconstructing Womanhood, we recall that Hazel Carby posed
a great challenge to the liberal historiography that sentimentalized sisterhood between white
and black...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 175–185.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of narratives of the black presence and racism in postwar Britain that center on the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush in 1948. By way of conclusion, the essay follows Carby in revisiting the so-called Brown Baby debate at the end of World War II, an episode in the reracialization of Britain that offers...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 143–165.
Published: 01 November 2012
... at Ellis Island in the late 1910s, Man Ray's exotica of his métisse muse on the eve of World War II, Sarah Maldoror's filmic depiction of a heroine of the Angolan anticolonial struggle in the 1970s, Alain Foix's recent historical reconstitution of the encounter between Angela Davis and Gerty Archimède...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 7–21.
Published: 01 March 2014
..., as population figures show—generated blurry sociocultural boundaries at the time and little scholarly attention since. As a result, significant swathes of experience are invisible in the cumulative historiography of Caribbean borderlands and border crossers. The essay points to pre-World War II migration to New...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 97–127.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of a new sound, the essay argues that sonic innovation was derived from Afro-Jamaican servicepeople who returned from World War II with military technological expertise, which they applied to sound engineering, and from entrepreneurial guilds of Jamaican merchants and shopkeepers of Chinese, Afro-Chinese...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 28–46.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Sarah Phillips Casteel While interned by the Nazis in Belgium and Bavaria during World War II, the little-known Surinamese artist Josef Nassy (1904–76) created a series of paintings and drawings documenting his experiences and those of other black prisoners. Nassy’s artworks uniquely register...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 210–217.
Published: 01 July 2009
... of anthropological knowledge within Caribbean studies, and more par-
ticularly, within the kinds of issues that were especially fundamental to Caribbean studies (as
well as other postcolonial “area” formations) in the aftermath of World War II. In other words,
Travels, a text that further opens the window first...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (1): 67–75.
Published: 01 February 2007
..., the people of Grenada,
Carriacou, and Petit Martinique, the group of islands to the north of Trinidad and Tobago in
the Caribbean chain.1 He narrates that when he was a child, during World War II and after
Grenadians had “made a name for themselves in the strike of 1937,” one of his aunts told him...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 187–196.
Published: 01 July 2020
... Caribbean tourism began in the late nineteenth century as an adjunct to the banana trade. It did not figure in planners’ calculations as being of key importance until after World War II. Critics question reliance on tourism because of the industry’s limited ability to promote local employment and enterprise...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 53–64.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of social and political action in Jamaica during the moment just before the sedimentation of nationalism. We should remember that this period in Jamaica came on the heels of World War II, which had been preceded by the late-1930s labour rebellions. Immediately before these rebellions, conditions...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 1–15.
Published: 01 July 2021
..., an “idea-shift” may be more consequential than a “power-shift” in global governance since it is “powerful enough to lay the basis for a new universalism.” 14 He argues that, since the end of World War II, postcolonial societies have been generating critical foundational ideas that alter the way we think...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 19–26.
Published: 01 March 2009
.... As she writes in her forthcoming memoir “Child of
Empire: Racializing Subjects in Post World War II Britain,” “the discursive emergence of the
modern black self into Britain’s transatlantic world confounds the contemporary reader’s
expectations of the conventions...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 133–150.
Published: 01 March 2002
... were ranked using key markers of diff erence—markers based on race, class,
culture, ethnicity, and gender. Since World War II, “immigrant” had already been
constructed as a code word for Africans, Asians and Caribbeans, and it indicated that
they were a threat...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 37–43.
Published: 01 March 2020
... to these as catalysts for the formation of the trade unions and political parties that would foment federation. 18 Indeed, the British Colonial Office commissioned the Moyne Report in 1939 to determine how far unrest spread throughout the region. In part owing to World War II, the Moyne Report was not made public...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 174–176.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., postcolonial migration, and the nation in the Netherlands, Belgium, and the United Kingdom; politics of World War II heritage in the Netherlands and its former colonies; the afterlives of colonialism and slavery in the Netherlands; legal histories of conquest, slavery, and indenture; and European political...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 61–68.
Published: 01 March 2020
... Boyce Davies and Jardine argue that Jones and Césaire were unusually ahead of their time, we might think of their critique of US imperialism in the Caribbean as belonging to an earlier era and as something lost by the passage to national independence after World War II. The lessons of the occupation...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 1–16.
Published: 01 July 2024
... published in La Voix des Femmes about a typical workday in Léopoldville’s neutral zone, I offer reflections on her views on and scholarship about working-class women, urban segregation, and the gendered division of labor in the Belgian Congo during World War II. The 1947 essay, titled “Zone neutre...
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