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... of Assembly for a memorial bust to be placed in the public library. Charles Bacon, a London-based sculptor with an established reputation among dignitaries and royalty, was commissioned that same year to create a suit- able likeness of the prince, recently created Duke of Edinburgh and Earl of Ulster...

..., references Marcus Garvey’s Black Star Line Shipping Com- pany, which was to take members of the African diaspora back to Africa. Included in the monument is a bust of Garvey by Alvin Marriott. Marriott also did another impor- tant statue of Marcus Garvey displayed in St. Ann, the parish...

... to Karl Marx’s gravesite found me in the presence of Claudia Jones’ tombstone, a flat stone in the ground, to the left of Karl Marx’s as one stands in front of the huge Marx bust. The significance of her position in death as it relates to the spatial/historical dimensions of both figures is overwhelming...

...—like that of a Vodou temple society. 150  |  Baby on the Blender: A Visual History of Catastrophe in Haiti The core members—André Eugène, Jean-Hérard Céleur, and Frantz Jacques Guyodo— grew up in what is essentially a vast scrap yard for the busted products of someone else’s...

... is a scrap of cardboard, and scratched into it with a nail or something is two words: CHICKEN COUP. A big hoax, big slap in the face—like the chickens had busted outta there on their own. Ha ha. But Bleinstein wasn’t laughing. Whole thing was a goddamned embarrassment. Lost him a lot of money but even more...

... not coming in?’ him smile, blowing short, bubbles just a bust in him mouth. Could the man move? No sir, him still like stone. Him right there,” she would then point...

... Cemetary, as those not overwhelmed by the towering Marx bust soon discover: a Trinidadian woman buried left of Karl Marx. Gaines sees this avoidance as not only the fault of the disciplining of black American activists during the McCarthy period but also because the general...

.... You too fool-fool, Trevor said, snatching the slingshot from Patrick. If you don t mind sharp you soon drop and bust your head. In truth, Patrick always seemed on the verge of falling, as if his internal compass had somehow been permanently tilted off center and left him able to walk and run...

... the slave (that is, the singer): buss (< bust < burst “whip,” “cut”) my rassa . This meaning would also be in keeping with the complaint that the singer is “fum’d” (beaten) whether she accommodates the master sexually or not. Lying bitch could bear out Massa’s cursing of his wife but might...

...: No, Kay Sullivan’s Sam Sharpe monument in Montego Bay was also cast at Carib- bean Casting many years ago as well as the bust of Sam Sharpe by Els Meijns in the Compass Workshop, Monument to the Right Honourable Sam Sharpe in Heroes Park. But I think Redemption Song is the largest fi ne...

... “counterpublic collectivity,” in the sense that they—as expansive, volatile events—teach us the impossibility of our being able to know all the moves busted in any given place and time. 7 The immeasurable minutiae of life that happen on dance floors (not always pleasurable, I hasten to add) allow for a living...

... a bust of Manley’s Bogle and a bust of George William Gordon by the young artist Christopher Gonzales, was unveiled in Kingston, Jamaica’s capital. These monuments marked the centenary of the major post-emancipation uprising of the nineteenth century, known as the Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865...

... more of her bust. “Strictly cash I and I a deal with. Anyway, I’m going to be the next female prime minister—just watch me.” Kim and Tina both envied Shara, but for different reasons. Shara’s father had begun a bank, which capitalized on the government’s unofficial slogan...

..., the artist made sure that no one could accuse her of underrepresenting the endowments of the African Jamaican male. Indeed, the February 2004 issue of Playboy features the monument in a Forum article entitled “Bust of Freedom” and reports Observer columnist Mark Wignall’s endorsement of Laura Facey...

... in which Jamaica, Cuba, and New Orleans are all sites of encounter with ones Hughes named “black as me.” 24 In other words, if the racial mountain seems to be scalable only by standardizing the instrumentation of blackness—tom-tom or bust—the instrument is, nevertheless, exactly that: a tool...

... will take up the slack in the wake of the degeneration of white ancestries. Her death after she returns to England allows him to memorialize her when her bust is dedicated and thus authorizes him as someone who now speaks on her behalf. 29 This fact, as well as his subsequent friendship with her nephew...

... the kicks to my stomach, I do not; I smile still. But my eyes are open. The sun is shining. I look into its light without blinking. Redness in my eyes. Try. Go ahead. Knock all the teeth out. I will never surrender this smile. It will be a toothless grin. My swollen, busted lips will grin at you...

... a bust of poetry entitled ‘The Ecuador Liar.’” “Ecuador,” Jamaica Times , 26 January 1901, 2. 24 Carmelo Rosario Natal, Exodo puertorriqueño (Las emigraciones al Caribe y Hawaii: 1900–1910) (1983; repr., San Juan: Editorial Edil, 2001), 72–79. 25 Lanny Thompson, Imperial Archipelago...

... hangings, now spruced up with busts of famous St. Lucians and renamed Walcott Square. In his poem about his boyhood in this place, Walcott declared that he would contain himself against the suffering here, saying nothing of it, “Until I have learnt to suffer / In accurate iambics.”2 He never allowed...

... at the University of New Brunswick. 1 “How Statues Are Falling around the World, ” New York Times , 24 June 2020; “Martinique: Deux statues détruites le jour de la commémoration de l’abolition de l’esclavage,” Le Figaro , 23 May 2020; “Un buste de Victor Schoelcher découpé et volé en Guadeloupe,” AFP...