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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 88–107.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Kamari Maxine Clarke This essay explores the ways that new judicial formations centered on the Caribbean Court of Justice provide a space for understanding the workings of various legal rights brokers as central to a project of Caribbean regionalism. It examines the intermediary spaces in which...
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Published: 01 November 2017
Figure 14. Demonstrators passing by the Supreme Court on King Street in support of Walter Rodney. © 1968 The Gleaner Co. (Media) Ltd.
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Published: 01 November 2015
Figure 1.3. Glenn Ligon, To Disembark , 1993. Mixed media, dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist; Luhring Augustine, New York; Regen Projects, Los Angeles; and Thomas Dane Gallery, London
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 233–240.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., among other issues. King's insistence on analyzing fiction alongside nonfictional contexts, such as court cases and queer organizing, provides a rich texture for the consideration of transgressive sexualities, while also raising questions about archives, presence, and the production of knowledge. ©...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 250–259.
Published: 01 March 2017
... and foreign white woman rather than between Caribbean people of African and Indian descent. King also addresses recent portrayals of Caribbean trans people and of Caribbean women who desire other women, in particular Shani Mootoo's Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab. Several recent court cases related...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 17–34.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Daniel Benjamin This essay argues that M. NourbeSe Philip’s 2008 book-length poem Zong! offers aesthetic experience as an undetermined exposure toward communality. As readers, we are not merely consuming the poem, which emerges from Philip’s reading of a 1781 court decision regarding a slave...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 1–13.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of investigation and medical treatment until her death, a record was created, and Estrea’s life and death were filed into the miscellaneous historical record of the US occupation of Haiti (1915–34). Her existence was immediately transformed into texts—courts martial testimonies, eyewitness accounts, a sketch...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 1–6.
Published: 01 March 2014
.... Vincent and the Grenadines, Ralph Gonsalves, informed the UN General Assembly of the intentions of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to seek reparations from several European governments for the slave trade and indigenous genocide. That same week a ruling of the Dominican Republic Constitutional Court...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 1–18.
Published: 01 October 2006
... black robe as well as the
white-wig perched on her head. All participants, including the distinguished Queen’s Counsel,
address her, as “m’lady.” Everyone bows and faces forward as they enter or exit the high court
room. A ten-inch crucifix hangs from the starkly elevated judge’s bench, just above...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): vii–viii.
Published: 01 March 2010
... irregularities of the ideologically motivated prosecutorial process that found them
guilty of murder (the torture by which confessions were extracted, the unconstitutionality of
the “court of necessity” in which they were tried, the withholding of documents needed to
support their defense, the dependence...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 53–66.
Published: 01 July 2020
... For Danish court proceedings involving the black population, see Gunvor Simonsen, Slave Stories: Law, Representation, and Gender in the Danish West Indies (Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University Press, 2017). 5 Fredrik Thomasson, “Thirty-Two Lashes at Quatre Piquets: Slave Laws and Justice...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 15–44.
Published: 01 June 2008
... long.”12
The actual trial was heard by the St. Mary Circuit Court, in Port Maria, on 5 March. In
the testimony presented, it was said that the prince told the people who had gathered to hear
him: “I am Prince Mackarooroo from Africa; I am come out to lift the black...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 162–177.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., the Marquis de Sade, both men “committed to a job well done, whether it be the seriatim sodomy of a Juliette or Lejeune's regulated system of burning and confession” (218)—ultimately convinced judges at both the lower court and appellate levels to drop the charges against him. The failure to convict even...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2009
... magistrate that prior to the 1904 Obeah Law, “prosecutions were few and far
between.” CO 152/287 Knollys to Lyttelton no. 208, 12 May 1905, report of Dominica magistrate for District E.
25 St. Lucia (1872 onward) and Jamaica (1857 onward). Reports of court cases in the Jamaican Daily Gleaner...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 1–17.
Published: 01 March 2018
... Chronology for the Rise of Slavery in Early Virginia,” William and Mary Quarterly 68, no. 3 (2011): 258n44; Morgan, Laboring Women , chap. 3. 37 Berlin, Many Thousands Gone , 37; Goetz, Baptism of Early Virginia , 100–101. 38 “Virginia Council and General Court Records, 1640–1641...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 179–188.
Published: 01 July 2023
... in 2009 and concluded in 2018, with the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) ruling that 153(1)(xlvii) of the Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) is a constitutional breach. In 2013, the litigants secured a meaningful step forward when the High Court justice Ian Chang ruled that, on its face, cross-dressing...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 38–56.
Published: 01 February 2008
... and institutions that could serve multiple states.5 In the pro-
cess, they grappled with questions that are highly relevant today: questions about rational-
izing law, international courts, immigration, and the fluidity and complexity of boundaries.
Third, Caribbean law students were (and are) drawn from many...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 171–187.
Published: 01 November 2024
....” [email protected] © 2024 by Small Axe, Inc. 2024 francophone Caribbean novel translation Caribbean women writers Guadeloupe Because my mother never wanted me to leave the house alone, I accompanied her on dozens of the round-trip journeys that she made from Monbruno Court to Fleret...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 65–79.
Published: 01 November 2016
... Five articles published between 1898 and 1899 in the Harvard Law Review served as precursors to the debates held by Congress and by the Supreme Court in the so-called insular cases. 27 The debate included three main positions: those who questioned the constitutional principle by which the United...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (1): 17–38.
Published: 01 February 2007
... of the Court of Appeal for the Windward Islands that had met in Grenada
24. “Representation of Editor of Grenada People, Wm. Galway Donovan, to the Earl of Derby, 4 March, 1884,” C. O.
321/78, in Robinson to Derby, 9 June 1884; editorial, St. George’s Chronicle, 29 March 1884.
25. “Representation...
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