Search Results for empire/colonialism

... economy of emancipation in the British West Indies, Taylor recasts the problem of liberal imperialism by decentering its justificatory discourses in the metropole to examine its practical effects in the colonies. In this turn, he provides an important and missing “materialization” of liberal empire...

... glimpses of the diversity of perspectives and political imaginaries among people of African descent and their extensive ties to a wider black Atlantic. © Small Axe, Inc. 2021 black Britain empire/colonialism postimperial racism intimacy interracial children Straddling the Atlantic Ocean...

... in Europe during a period when ethnology relied on empire to assert its utility to the state, Comhaire-Sylvain’s work unfolded along colonial fault lines, a dimension this essay seeks to tease out. The analysis focuses on a 1947 essay she published in La Voix des Femmes , the newspaper of Haiti’s first...

..., in Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean , historian Peter James Hudson offers a detailed and damning account of the entanglements of the internationalization of US banking, imperialism, and (neo)colonialism in the epoch of US-led finance capitalism. He pays particular attention...

... was ensured by former colonial subjects whose citizenship rights were routinely and systematically denied. The substitution of the French colonial empire for the French Union and its overseas departments and territories in the aftermath of the war also prompted a shift in the relationship between France...

... the representatives change their mind about granting them aid. 5 Between Glissant and Zapata Olivella emerge related insights to the domain of Colonial Phantoms : the relationship to empire necessarily mediates the contours of visibility. Even as she investigates a distinct Dominican “we” that deserves unique...

... than physical chopping was the crime, and colonial policy and practice, the perpetrator” (202). In making explicit the relationships between intimacy, empire, and violence, it is intimacy’s claustrophobic dimensions that register forcefully, calling to mind Julia Sudbury’s provocation to consider...

... and ideological remains of British colonial rule? What kinds of subjectivities—such as the nameless tourist and the Antiguans praising “a British God”—are generated by the uneven shift in the terms of relation between (former) empire and colony? Kincaid’s indictment of the tourist’s disavowal of colonial history...

...Ana-Maurine Lara Drawing on the strategies employed by LGBT activists in the Dominican Republic, this essay seeks to theorize how strategic universalisms are mobilized as a form of agentive sociopolitical action. Delineating how universalization has historically been a tool of Catholic coloniality...

..., in the case of Aunt Joyce and countless other Black migrants from Belize, her experience sheds light on the complex dynamics of empire, coloniality, and renderings of the border. While existing works on Central American migration to the United States predominantly focus on violence, precarious movement...

...Madhavi Kale Small Axe Incorporated 2003 BOOK DISCUSSION: CIVILISING SUBJECTS Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830–1867, Catherine Hall. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. ISBN 0-226-31334-4 Subject to Question: Empire and Catherine...

... HHallall plantation colonies) and naturalized.” Th e term “indenture” was, she argues, forged “in the crucible of empire,” but historians have failed to recognize this and have continued to use it as if it were a neutral description (hence her critique of my uncritical use of the debates over labor...

... on approaching the past “on its own terms.” Those who dare to judge especially the governing classes by the present’s ethical standards commit the disciplinary sin of anachronism, imposing moral values not available to our ancestors. Post- colonial preoccupations with empire and race are prominent among...

... as an unknowable danger, steeped in barbarism.” 5 The “identitary wall” has given the world “the eternal confrontations between peoples, empires, colonial expansions, the slave trade, the atrocities of American slavery, the unthinkable horrors of the Shoah, and all the known and unknown genocides.” 6...

...: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1958), vol. 2, tomo 1, 179–80 (doc. 117). 4 See, among others, Timothy D. Walker, “Acquisition and Circulation of Medical Knowledge within the Early Modern Portuguese Colonial Empire,” in Daniela Bleichmar, Paula De Vos, Kristin Huffine, and Kevin...

... written works, such as Cahier d’un retour au pays natal and Discours sur le colonialisme , in many ways stood in opposition to his political actions for departmentalization and later cooperative federalism. According to Wilder, Césaire’s poetry and politics were tightly interwoven, with his poetry...

... in British colonial Jamaica, see Casid, Sowing Empire , 7. Margaret Williamson has noted Thistlewood’s familiarity with classical mythology, singling out the enslaved persons named “Charon, Minos and Rhadamanthus,” figures “associated with the Underworld.” Williamson argues that such names, which extended...

... Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin, eds., The Post-colonial Studies Reader (London: Routledge, 1995), 430. 24 For an early articulation of the colonies as laboratories for modernity, see Frederick Cooper and Ann Laura Stoler, eds., Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World (Berkeley...

... that it becomes relevant for contesting these present-day sites of coloniality? De Kom wrote his seminal work in 1934 when slavery had already been abolished in the Dutch colonial empire. At the time, however, activism by proletarianized workers in the colonies had continued but was severely suppressed...

... claim to all sorts of dramatic histories—slavery, empire, colonialism, migration, and so on. In that respect, my own story, my own history, is one that I share with a great many others. Our individual births might in some respects represent just one more human being on the planet, but in other regards...