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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): vii–x.
Published: 01 March 2022
... for appreciating the real scope of his contribution. Easily, Charles was one of the most formidable Jamaican intellectuals of his generation, a thinker whose body of work—including six published books: The Racial Contract ; Blackness Visible ; From Class to Race ; Contract and Domination (with Carole Pateman...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 82–105.
Published: 01 March 2004
... of a “racial contract” that refl ects simultaneously the prin-
ciples of Orientalism as well as the promises of the civilizing mission Th e racial con-
tract in this account arises out of the social contract tradition. Th is tradition, central to
Western political thought, rested...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 98–111.
Published: 01 March 2009
..., and
mutiny; those who survived the three-month voyage “signed” contracts for five years of
indenture at $4 per month, and were confined upon arrival to a half-mile radius of the sugar
plantation.7 In this sense, the representations of indentured labor as “freely” contracted served...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 62–79.
Published: 01 November 2011
... how he contracts the disease, there is an implicit link to his
occupation as a tourist guide and sex worker:
He had heard . . . that many of the other young men making a living this way had got move
san that way, bad blood, or what they called SIDA, or AIDS, but others maintained...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 178–181.
Published: 01 March 2015
... , and European Journal of Political Theory . He is the author of Social Contract, Masochist Contract: Aesthetics of Freedom and Submission in Rousseau (2014). A ndil G osine (whose work also appears on the cover of this issue) is a writer and artist who is currently an associate professor at York...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 108–122.
Published: 01 July 2014
... contracts were specified for a five-year period, at the end of which the debt owed for passage was considered paid. However, another five years of service was required for individuals to become eligible for partially subsidized return passage “home.” Ten years of industrial residence became the norm. 2...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 145–156.
Published: 01 March 2024
... Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk , 116; see also “The Sorrow Songs,” chap. 14. 11 See Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey along the Atlantic Slave Route (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007), 6. 10 Charles W. Mills, The Racial Contract (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 5–19.
Published: 01 March 2015
... within an éloge, moreover, that celebrates “the liberty enjoyed by the savage,” 6 the question raised by the self-contradicting footnote is why praise Rousseau in the first place? D'Escherny's postrevolutionary works are highly critical of Rousseau's Social Contract , a work d'Escherny describes...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 145–149.
Published: 01 October 2006
... they have to do. I
understand though it hurt. I understand though both of us know having is not what make a
heart feel at home. You want more than what this North Coast could give. I don’t blame you.
In fact when people run they mouth about how you pick up and gone Canada on farm worker
contract...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 19–36.
Published: 01 October 2006
..., and impoverished farm workers were lured with
promises of better financial prospects in the new lands. The contracted labor trade brought thousands of Indians
to the French and British-controlled sugar plantations in the Caribbean, South Africa, Fiji, and the islands of the
Indian Ocean. However...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 219–231.
Published: 01 July 2018
... than in India and lower among those who had served out their contracts: “The British had severed the indentured from their country, their caste, their kin. And imperial officials had created the conditions for violence against women through unnatural gender ratios. From this angle, colonialism rather...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 175–186.
Published: 01 July 2020
... military to intervene in a country if it defaults on its debt; the withholding of government salaries by banks, acting as fiscal agents for nominally independent governments, unless nations agree to cede them transportation, utility, and other contracts and concessions (158); and the demand by foreign...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 65–80.
Published: 01 November 2020
... W. Roberts and Sonja A. Sinclair, Women in Jamaica: Patterns of Reproduction and Family (Millwood, NY: KTO, 1978), 178. 59 Ariela Dubler, “Governing through Contract: Common Law Marriage in the Nineteenth Century,” Yale Law Journal 107, no. 6 (1998): 1906. 60 See Dubler, “Wifely...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (1): 149–151.
Published: 01 February 2007
... her distaste for that disgusting cocktail. She swallowed the concoction in one gulp and
lay down under the covers shivering as though she had just contracted a severe case of ague.
She wondered why she did not get the usual half an orange to wash down the medicine.
With one...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 164–166.
Published: 01 March 2010
..., reorienting the geometry of empire. At once, time compressed
and space contracted. Movement expanded: length, breadth, depth. Speed extended: slow-
ness relinquished and fastness retained. Perception was obliterated, groundless. Perspective
effaced, hanging.
The work of speed made it difficult...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 176–179.
Published: 01 March 2024
... as coeditor of the Duke University Press series Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People. Presently he is working on a manuscript titled “The Law of Race and Public Religions: Talking Book Traditions and the Limits of Originalism,” contracted with Columbia University Press. R achel G...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 244–246.
Published: 01 November 2013
... Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, is under contract with the University of Iowa Press. His most recent book of poetry is Los días porosos (2012). S tephan P almié is a professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Das Exil der...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): v–viii.
Published: 01 October 2008
... of Small Axe at a pensive moment in its history,
when the University of the West Indies Press (which had itself taken it over from Ian Randle
Publishers) decided for its own reasons that it would not renew our contract, thus obliging
the journal—in a well-enough-known Caribbean pattern...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 34–51.
Published: 01 October 2007
... economy
as it contracts under pressures of increasing debt. The contraction of the economy is coupled
with a drastic reduction of formal sector jobs resulting in high unemployment rates hovering
around ten to eleven percent. The destructive effects of structural adjustment policies that have...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 128–136.
Published: 01 November 2009
...: The IDT-Haiti Contract,” Komisar Scoop, 29 July 2008, httpthekomisarscoop
.com/2008/07/the-smoking-gun-the-idt-haiti-contract/ (accessed 24 June 2009). ...
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