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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 81–93.
Published: 01 July 2017
... of affect, memory, and history related to indentureship are mobilized in the photographic arts of the Caribbean diaspora; and the aesthetic is a conceptual space with cultural resonance for the descendants of indentured laborers. In essence, the author finds that visual evidence of an indentured past...
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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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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 31–51.
Published: 01 November 2022
... letter to the editor in which McTurk dons the racialized mask of his persona to warn that an inquiry into the abuse of indentured Indian laborers will provoke a violent response from the Afro-Guyanese community. The essay argues that the versification of Quow’s voice seeks to implant him as a “found...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 108–122.
Published: 01 July 2014
... Sailed 4th Sept 1955,” National Archives of Guyana, 1955, Book AA3/17. For interview, see Nalini Mohabir and Hyacinth Simpson, “Resurgent (Rise Again): The Last Repatriation of Indo-Caribbean Indentured Laborers,” Interventions 8, no. 3 (2006): 487–505. 21 David Gilbert and David Lambert...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 219–231.
Published: 01 July 2018
... the production of Indianness in the Caribbean, while the poetry of Mahadai Das, excerpts of which are to be found in the book, offers yet another, earlier literary archive for the themes explored here. 6 Describing his response after witnessing a performance by descendants of indentured laborers in rural...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 167–176.
Published: 01 July 2023
... , which featured prerecorded performances of the dramatic monologues of three Indian indentured laborers—two based on archival materials and one on a work of fiction—and conversations with the authors. 1 The event was fascinating for me because, as a writer, I enjoy readings (even on Zoom during...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 100–122.
Published: 01 March 2023
... exploitation and oppression of the enslaved, their descendants, and indentured laborers after the abolition of slavery. For my part, I am interested in the ways De Kom demonstrates throughout the book how European law and the rights granted to those recognized as citizens under the law played an essential...
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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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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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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 35–56.
Published: 01 July 2018
... and the daguerreotype. 11 See Isabelle Lausent-Herrera, “Tusans (tusheng) and the Changing Chinese Community in Peru,” in Walton Look Lai and Tan Chee-Beng, eds., The Chinese in Latin America and the Caribbean (Leiden, UK: Brill, 2010). 10 See Walton Look Lai, Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar: Chinese...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 94–111.
Published: 01 July 2017
... punishment. 21 Therefore, the reconstruction of the family in the indentured context relied on heteropatriarchal social formations that regulated the boundaries of gender, sexuality, and desire. Family life was structured around the strict separation of the sexes and the clear demarcation of labor within...
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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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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 112–122.
Published: 01 July 2017
... 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 was “the Indian way...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 57–71.
Published: 01 July 2009
... that took place both during and at the end of the
indenture system. Laborers who had completed their contracts of first five years and then an
optional five would be encouraged, or persuaded themselves, that it was in their best interest
to live in close proximity to the estates they had quit...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 19–36.
Published: 01 October 2006
..., sex workers, and indentured
laborers via the exploration of themes such as immigration, indenture, gender marginality,
social invisibility, domestic abuse, and patriarchal inviolability in Indo-Caribbean communi-
ties. Her writings inscribe the negotiations of Indo-Caribbean female subjectivity...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 72–74.
Published: 01 July 2023
... to have been brought to Jamaica from the Congo by indentured laborers in the postslavery period. Interviews with Queenie Kennedy, a famous Kumina leader, and laborious transcriptions of these interviews formed the basis of the Savacou pamphlet The “Nkuyu”: Spirit Messengers of the Kumina , published...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 18–34.
Published: 01 November 2014
... and early twentieth centuries. By 1891, 78 percent of Indo-Trinidadians were engaged in agricultural labor, but only half of this number remained resident on the cocoa and sugar estates. 36 That East Indians aspired for autonomy from the estates is testified to by this tendency for indentured laborers...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 197–208.
Published: 01 July 2011
... is key here in showing how
the “scarcity” of women as indentured laborers and their desire to earn their wages as heads of
their own households created anxiety for the authorities as well as for Indian indentured men,
with fatal consequences for women.30 As M. Jacqui Alexander might put...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 232–243.
Published: 01 July 2018
... to transforming inequities in the region. It’s a sense of rights and how to navigate them that emerges from looking at indentureship, the afterlife of indentured labor, and the examples that women have provided since they set foot on those boats. There is, therefore, an “f-word” at work too, a desire...
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Barrack Yard Politics: From C. L. R. James’s The Case for West-Indian Self Government to Minty Alley
Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 13–27.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of the question of self-government in James’s pamphlet. At what point might West Indian subjects, the majority of them of African descent, demonstrate their fitness to govern their own affairs? What role might other populations, particularly the descendants of indentured Indian laborers, take in such a political...
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