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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 97–127.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of the “sound-system” to the networks of local small-retail grocery shops, ubiquitous across Jamaica, that were owned and operated by Jamaican Chinese shopkeepers and examines how they formed material infrastructures. In charting the hardwiring of speakers and how the sociality of the shop housed the production...
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in Bigger than the Sound: The Jamaican Chinese Infrastructures of Reggae
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2020
Figure 2 Map of Jamaican Chinese business infrastructure distribution across Jamaica, 1957–1963. The dot density (i.e., darker dots) on this map indicates multiple shops in one area. Designed by Tao Leigh Goffe, 2017 (Datawrapper)
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in Bigger than the Sound: The Jamaican Chinese Infrastructures of Reggae
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2020
Figures 3 and 4 Above left, Afro-Chinese soundsystem pioneer Tom the Great Sebastian (Thomas Wong). Above right, a commemorative illustration by Michael Thompson (a.k.a. Freestylee), Artist without Borders, 2011 (R.055). Courtesy of the estate of Michael Thompson
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in Bigger than the Sound: The Jamaican Chinese Infrastructures of Reggae
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2020
Figure 8 Sammy Chong’s huaqiao (overseas Chinese) passport, 1945. This type of passport was issued by the Chinese government to local-born Jamaican Chinese for travel to China. Courtesy of Kathleen (Kay) Chin
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 35–56.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Tao Leigh Goffe This essay focuses on artwork that centers family photographs and home movies as a point of departure to trouble the conventional family album in order to narrate a story about Caribbean Chinese kinship. In the art examined, personal visual archives are used to respond to the lacuna...
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in Albums of Inclusion: The Photographic Poetics of Caribbean Chinese Visual Kinship
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 July 2018
Figure 1 Albert Chong, Addressing the Chinese-Jamaican Business Community , 1992. Gelatin silver print, 30 × 40 in.
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 149–160.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Tzarina T. Prater This essay contributes to ongoing debates about cultural and national identity and belonging in Jamaica by taking up the primary trope of the “shop” as the sole site of black and Chinese interaction. Through analyzing the fiction and poetry of Easton Lee, the essay considers how...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 28–43.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Elizabeth E. Sine This essay explores the making of a radical cultural politics amid the global crisis of the 1930s and 1940s through a study of the life and work of dancer Si-lan Chen. Born in Trinidad to Afro-Caribbean and Chinese parents, trained as a ballerina in Moscow, and an active supporter...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 20–35.
Published: 01 March 2012
... of the Chinese in the Caribbean in the early twentieth century, loses connections to the language, history, and land of his birth as he forges an identity in his new home. In an illumination of a history not explored, The Pagoda , with its multiple crossings of gender, race, and desire, focuses our attention...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 69–75.
Published: 01 March 2024
... his own misrecognition as “chineyman” (Chinese Jamaican) and possible “battyman” (gay man) to uncover the heterosexual and patriarchal norms that also underwrite the race/nation imaginary. [email protected] © Small Axe, Inc. 2024 albinism and Jamaican nationalism Chinese Jamaicans...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 1–17.
Published: 01 November 2014
...” LGBT individuals present to the nation. Chin's identity as a woman of Chinese and African descent calls into question a unitary identity or origin story for Caribbean subjects and asks which bodies are allowed to be legitimate citizens of the postindependence Caribbean. Chin's personal experiences...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 98–111.
Published: 01 March 2009
..., secretary of state Lord Hobart secretly dispatched Kenneth MacQueen
to captain a ship named Fortitude from Bengal, bound for Trinidad and carrying a cargo of
Chinese workers and East India Company goods. When the ship and its cargo were seized for
a breach of laws relating to the plantation trade...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 119–143.
Published: 01 July 2022
.... The members of the Chinese family that kept the main shop in George Village were likely descended from one of the several attempts to indenture Chinese workers. These attempts were dubbed “failed experiments” because Chinese workers, savvy from being better equipped with the knowledge of generations...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 57–71.
Published: 01 July 2009
... and
racial groups who were introduced to the Caribbean from the Asian continent and subconti-
nent. Where the discussion relates primarily to Indians or Chinese, I make specific reference.
I propose that these groups have come to occupy the status of the other and tease out some
ideas...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 56–76.
Published: 01 July 2015
... but instead swerve over a cliff and explode, there is also a beautiful Chinese photographer who tries to snap a picture as Bond arrives at the airport and later follows him to a bar. Meanwhile, Miss Taro, the colonial secretary's secretary, a “demure, efficient-looking little secretary in … horn rimmed...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 29–49.
Published: 01 November 2015
... as a transnational cultural field “long engaged in a mighty dialogue with the Middle East and the Indian Ocean,” Afro-Atlantic interlocutors embrace and transform what they encounter, for their own purposes. Thus, for example, “Cuban santeros employ Chinese porcelain vessels and ‘syncretize’ the orichas...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 77–96.
Published: 01 March 2019
... / An Babylon no share di spoil / Every day wi a suffer / Where is the love for the black child? / Mr Chin done have him own / Dem treat wi like dog an wi still no get no bone.” “Mr. (or Miss) Chin” is a generic name used by black Jamaicans to refer to persons of Chinese descent. 19 This resentment had...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 56–67.
Published: 01 November 2018
... and entrenching directly racialized understandings of maritime labor markets. 20 These racialized imaginaries of maritime labor markets were not, however, specific to the postwar conjuncture. The NSFU had been involved, for example, in campaigns against Chinese seafarers earlier in the decade, and it is worth...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 99–109.
Published: 01 March 2017
... popular culture (Tarot, Chinese Charade)—establishing connections among them. While elements of her imagery, particularly those linked to African mythologies, recall some of Wifredo Lam's (Cuba, 1902–82) works and, more specifically, those of Manuel Mendive (Cuba, 1944–), Morera's work displays a biting...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 March 2003
... the Miss Jamaica title in the pre-
independence era was a Chinese-Jamaican, in the immediate postindependence era of
the mid-1960s virtually no white- or Chinese-Jamaican women dared to enter because
of black nationalist interests; the Chinese, as part of the merchant class, were perceived...
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