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... identity formations through a transnational frame. 4 Furthermore, Masculinity after Trujillo illustrates the value of literary critique for the study of hegemonic and oppositional archives. I will follow Horn's invitation to move away from the dictator's body by moving away from the masculine...

... group of scholars and activists, their lives and work remain underexplored. For example, in the Netherlands, where the author writes, it was not until the founding of the Black Archives in Amsterdam in 2016 that the Huiswouds would become part of broad-scale discussions about anticolonial traditions...

...Minkah Makalani This afterword takes up some of the conceptual and historiographical concerns raised in the special section on Hermina and Otto Huiswoud. By examining the work of the Black Archives in Amsterdam, which holds the Huiswouds’ personal papers and book collection, the author argues...

... at the time. Whatever details the photograph contains suffice to encompass the entire typology of a “Negro” from the Dominican Republic. Or, perhaps, another place. Folders in US archives cataloged as containing photographs of Dominicans frequently include stray images of Puerto Ricans, Haitians, Cubans...

...Nancy Raquel Mirabal The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is the premier center of African American and Afro-diasporic studies. Yet, as the literary scholar Vanessa Valdés argues, we know little of the center’s namesake and his drive to collect and establish a renowned archive...

...Marta Fernández Campa This essay highlights the role of archives, archival research, and integration of archival records in contemporary Caribbean visual artwork that evokes and reimagines unevenly recorded historical processes/moments. It also suggests the defining role of this approach...

...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...

...Kanika Batra This article examines a privately published newsletter, The Jamaica Gaily News , in circulation from 1978 to 1984, as an archive of gay and lesbian community building initiated by the Gay Freedom Movement (GFM). Contending that recent efforts of organizations like the Jamaica Forum...

... historicity to the black population, ever unproblematically yield `black history'? Can black histories ever be built on fragile postcard infrastructures?” Small Axe Incorporated 2008 Caribbean Subjectivity and the Colonial Archive Beth Fowkes Tobin Ab s t r a c t : This essay takes up...

...Patricia Saunders Small Axe Incorporated 2008 Defending the Dead, Confronting the Archive: A Conversation with M. NourbeSe Philip Patricia Saunders Law and poetry both share an inexorable concern with language—the “right” use of the “right” words, phrases or even marks...

...Phanuel Antwi Rereading dub poetry under the pressures of and with the resources of black feminist and queer theory, and treating the practice of dub poetry as a production of a sound archive, one that embodies and aurally animates the intimacies of the black Atlantic, this essay highlights...

...Deborah A. Thomas This essay discusses the process of field formation within Caribbean studies in relation to the building of archives, challenging Eurocentric conceptualizations of history and history making as well as counterdominant tropes about the region and the people who have inhabited...

...Grace L. Sanders Johnson This essay tells the story of Estrea Jean Gilles, a nineteen-year-old girl who was killed by Marines during the US occupation of Haiti (1915–34). With the crash described as an “unavoidable” accident and the documents cataloged under “miscellaneous,” Estrea’s archived life...

... Archives and Special Collections at York University Libraries is named after her. 19 Frank Birbalsingh, “Edgar Mittelholzer: Moralist or Pornographer?,” Journal of Commonwealth Literature 4, no. 1 (1969): 88–103. 20 Patrick White, an Australian writer, won the Nobel Prize in Literature...

...Monique A. Bedasse; Aaron Kamugisha This essay argues for an approach to postcolonial Caribbean intellectual history that moves beyond the national archive to rely on a globally dispersed archive. It uses Rastafari repatriation to Tanzania to highlight the intellectual history of the movement...

...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...

... and are now held in France. Examining the history of this archive that stands as a metaphor for Swedish colonial amnesia, this essay discusses the reluctance in Sweden to recognize a past that goes against a self-image untainted by slavery and colonialism. The essay also discusses a project that aims to open...