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Picturing an Afterlife of Indenture
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 81–93.
Published: 01 July 2017
... are insufficient to describe a complex diasporic history, and advocates a contemplation of the ephemeral such as bodily gestures. © Small Axe, Inc. 2017 indentured labor photography archives diaspora Caribbean The editor of this special section invited us to contemplate indentured labor and its...
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Life Unadministered: Colonial Care and the Indian Coolie
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., the essay illuminates the racialized and caste-based knowledge systems that were mobilized to “make live” the reserve of potential labor force aboard. Concomitantly, it reads the colonial archive for moments in which indentured servants register their presence through their responses to being or refusal...
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The Birth of “Quow”: Michael McTurk and the Minstrel Origins of the Civic Tradition of Creole Verse
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 31–51.
Published: 01 November 2022
... in the class and racial contradictions created by the post-abolition importation of labor into British Guiana. As Edmondson comments, Quow arrived on the scene as the colony “was in the midst of a radical demographic transformation.” 31 In the 1840s, a substantial number of indentured Portuguese workers...
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Port of Departure, Port of Return: Mapping Indentured Returns to Calcutta
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 108–122.
Published: 01 July 2014
... means rather than a precise location related to the infrastructure of indentureship. 11 Seecharan, Tiger in the Stars , 353. 10 See K. O. Laurence, A Question of Labour: Indentured Immigration into Trinidad and British Guiana, 1875–1917 (New York: St. Martin's, 1994); and Ramesar...
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Gaiutra Bahadur’s Coolie Woman : Intimacies, Proximities, Relationalities
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 219–231.
Published: 01 July 2018
...” was a category of labor that was assembled in diverse ways to respond to the shifting needs of empire; Coolie Woman emphasizes the term’s Tamil etymology (translated as “wages” or “hire”; xx) and distinguishes between “coolies” and the Chinese (who also arrived as indentured laborers) in British Guiana...
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“We Are Animal. So What?”
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 167–176.
Published: 01 July 2023
..., Coolitude: An Anthology of the Indian Labour Diaspora (London: Anthem, 2002), 15. 11 Mel Y. Chen, introduction to Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012), 3. 10 Colin Robinson, “I Want to Bite,” in You Have You Father Hard Head...
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Citizenship Violence and the Afterlives of Dutch Colonialism: Rereading Anton de Kom
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 100–122.
Published: 01 March 2023
... of “free labor” by indentured laborers who were recruited in China, India, and Indonesia to replace the enslaved after the abolition. Enslavement and indentured labor, in that sense, should be viewed as a continuum, with indenture implying an “adapted” phase in the Western-dominated capitalist exploitation...
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Queering the Pitch from Beyond a Boundary
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 38–54.
Published: 01 March 2014
... the concessions made by their national governments that they share a legacy of indentured labor. How might Caribbean and South Asian historiography, respectively, in this particular moment in history be both critical of and productive for the other, and for historical practice and criticism in general? I...
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Autobiography Out of Empire
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 98–111.
Published: 01 March 2009
... mine).
4 The term coolie was used to refer to Chinese and Indian labor. See Walton Look Lai, Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar: Chinese
and Indian Migrations to the British West Indies, 1838–1918 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993), and Chinese in the
West Indies, 1806–1995...
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When the Moon Waxes Red : Afro-Asian Feminist Intimacies and the Aesthetics of Indenture
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 94–111.
Published: 01 July 2017
... their heritage to the indenture system. Khan writes of this project: “[It] engages with the history of colonial indentured labour meets Indian patriarchy meets South African racism in my grandmother's and mother's lives (and their histories of generational violence), but also relating this to the wider...
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Albums of Inclusion: The Photographic Poetics of Caribbean Chinese Visual Kinship
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 35–56.
Published: 01 July 2018
... in North American History (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006), 200. 10 See Walton Look Lai, Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar: Chinese and Indian Migrations to the British West Indies, 1838–1918 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993). This helps explain why the pervasive...
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Narratives of Empire: A Reply to Critics
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 168–178.
Published: 01 September 2003
..., on the geneal-
ogy of the category of indentured labor in the post-Emancipation period, made a pow-
Small Axe 14, September 2003: pp. 168–178
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erful case for asking diff erent kinds of questions about empire and its projects. Inspired
by Foucauldian and poststructuralist understandings...
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The Asian Other in the Caribbean
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 57–71.
Published: 01 July 2009
... served their time or
their usefulness to the host society. In 1845, when the system of recruiting Indian indentured
labor was introduced, it was used on the plantations now denuded of enslaved labor, thus
setting up the first serious antagonism with the coexisting labor supply. Freed...
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Maureen Warner-Lewis, Friend and Colleague
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 72–74.
Published: 01 July 2023
... Institute of Jamaica Maureen Warner-Lewis once sagely remarked that modern labor-saving devices did not really save labor. Her example was the washing machine, which only freed you to do other jobs. Washing by hand, she said, had the advantage of allowing the mind to lie fallow and recover itself...
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The Precarity of Intramural Theorizing
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 179–189.
Published: 01 July 2024
... Rico Rocío Zambrana The plantation is a racial order, one irreducibly anti-black despite the racial complexity introduced by the move to indentured labor . . . and other forms of coerced labor pursued before, throughout, and after emancipation. —Rocío Zambrana, “The Plantation Complex...
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Engendering History: A Poetics of the Kala Pani in Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 19–36.
Published: 01 October 2006
... in the Caribbean begins with the “official” abolition of slavery in 1838 when a second wave of
“voluntary immigration” was mobilized from India in the form of the indentured labor trade. European sugar-
plantation owners still needed a cheap and industrious agricultural workforce that was familiar...
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Communal Style: Indo-Caribbean Women's Jewelry
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 112–122.
Published: 01 July 2017
..., “against the protocols of the archive and the authority of its statements”; 9 the actual interpretation of the jewelry by those who wore it subverts the intention of the colonial postcards, since the jewelry originally represented the labor performed by those it adorned. Jewelry for indentured women...
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Own People: Race, “Altered Solidarities,” and the Limits of Culture in Trinidad
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 18–34.
Published: 01 November 2014
... indentured labor to rural areas and a movement of Afro-Trinidadians from cities to Crown Lands and cacao estates, 35 contradicting the popular idea that Afro-Trinidadians simply fled to the cities after slavery and wanted no part in agriculture. Indo-Trinidadians also played central roles...
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“ Only His Hat Is Left”? Resituating Not-Yet Narratives
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 197–208.
Published: 01 July 2011
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a prevailing opinion in an anthropological register, as much as he is asserting an economic
necessity, since it is important to keep both groups separate and competing with each other
in the labor market.29 As I showed, middle-class Trinidadians of African descent were out-
raged when Froude, Kingsley...
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Reading Postemancipation In/Security: Negotiations of Everyday Freedom
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 105–114.
Published: 01 November 2018
... indentured labor schemes—embedded forms of insecurity and colonial violence into Caribbean lives. On the other hand, mobile practices at a smaller scale contrastingly enabled Caribbean people to navigate and negotiate the multiple insecurities of the plantation complex. As a result, for ordinary Caribbean...
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