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...Peter James Hudson Although the historical impact of banking and financial institutions on the formation of the contemporary Caribbean has been profound and pervasive, the historical writing on banking and finance in the Caribbean has largely been neglected and marginalized. This essay explores...

...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...

...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...

... the epistemological and political purview of the radical wing of black studies, the essay focuses on four topics that appear in Plummer’s and Burden-Stelly’s comments: (1) the question of class, and in particular the role of the Caribbean middle classes, in the history of finance, banking, imperial expansion...

... Thus it has been determined that diligent attention must now be paid to the way that banks facilitate the transfer of funds. Important to this emerging financial surveillance infrastructure has been the implementation of heightened forms of customer due diligence, or “Know Your Customer” regulations...

... cultures held by West Indians themselves. 15 In an address to the board of governors of the Caribbean Development Bank during the 1970s, for example, Lewis argued that this culture of business in the region—which issued privileges and rewards on the basis of an individual's location within the colonial...

... (mostly elite) inhabitants. Also easy to overlook because it is so well done is the way in which these voices are all brought to bear on particular historical moments, such as Evon Blake’s dive into the Myrtle Bank Hotel pool or John Williamson’s invention of the photosphere. In this book...

... 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...

... have a different opinion of who was to be blamed, but they all agreed the journey down the river on the inflated tubes of dump truck tires had begun that first time as they lay drying themselves on the banks of the riverhead. The lure of being the first—at least in their own minds, choosing...

... positioning within the colony’s political economy. As such, Zambrana analyzes La Colectiva Feminista en Construcción’s embargo in Colonial Debts that was “composed of a protest that shut down Santander, Banco Popular, Oriental Bank, and First Bank centers in Plaza las Américas” in San Juan...

... Recovery Program drafted for Haiti by the international financial institutions in October 1994.16 Once reelected in 2000 he pursued the neoliberal policies “virtually without a decent level of external aid.”17 He entered into an agreement with the World Bank to set up a free trade zone...

..., opening a store in downtown Kingston, on Harbour Street, near the fabled Myrtle Bank Hotel. This was the great hotel of its age in Jamaica. It had been converted by the colonial government from an entertainment and social center of sorts into a grand hotel in preparation for the Great Exhibition of 1891...

... and the Kingston Metropolitan Area respec- tively], 15 percent and 2 percent from Canada). Before 1990 there was one remittance institution in Jamaica (excluding banks); by 1992 banks, building societies, and travel agencies had joined the business, in a fi erce competition for foreign currency...

... of coughing, nearly toppling over the wall, which banked the river called Constitution. Piss sprayed his pant leg and sandled foot. It stank of rum and corned beef and Eclipse biscuits. Two boys leaning against the river wall—dark, clean-shaven, tattooed, and gold- chained—laughed at him. He...

... in Montreal. He is currently editing the proceedings of the 1968 Congress of Black Writers for publication. teaches in the Department of Anthropology at John Jay College, CUNY. He is the author of Crossing the Green Line: Borders and Apartheid in the Pales- tinian West Bank (2001...

..., of the city's population. The move away from Downtown of much of white- and pink-collar work and its concentration in New Kingston, as well as the dispersed development of new shopping and banking facilities in closer proximity to the residential suburbs, decisively shifted elite lifeways into an almost...

...Donna M. E. Banks This essay highlights community murals as a potent tool in creative placemaking as they foreground overlooked narratives and weave them into the larger public discourse. While scholars have noted the importance of history and race in creative placemaking discourse, this essay’s...

...?” No, ma’am, him still alive. 32 • July 2010 • Monica Minott  |  117 Bird Shooting Season (for Don Banks) He died peacefully just before bird shooting season...

..., Bodega Dreams (New York: Vintage, 2000); Hiram Maristany, “Looking at East Harlem,” Small Axe , no. 48 (November 2015): 163–74. 9 Burgos, “Entre mi voz y el tiempo,” in Song of the Simple Truth , 192; “On the banks of death, / there is something, some voice, some sail about to depart, / some...

... to Teach (Kingston: Kingston Publishers, 1995); hereafter cited in text as GHT. 6 Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961; repr., New York: Grove, 1968), 40. 7 The sudden, surprise resignation of the unequivocally black head of a prominent bank in 2008 was met with barely con- cealed...