...David Scott [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc. 2022 The lamentable death of the philosopher Charles W. Mills, on 20 September 2021, has not only stunned us but left us all the poorer intellectually, the more so, I believe, for the want of an adequate framework...

... discussion of (ethno)technology and futurology as well as work by Aimé Césaire and Antonio Benítez-Rojo all address the dually oppressive and liberatory roles that emergent technologies—from the sugar mill to the World Wide Web—have played and might continue to play in past, present, and future Caribbean...

... the villagers would mill around in the road after she left, looking for the silvery flashes of the big Chevrolet as it rounded the corners of the hill. Mr. Ali was only called up to the village in emergencies. Right next to her on the backseat was the faint brown stain when Myrtle nearly sliced off her finger...

... Mill”: What you want and what you will, Working for a dollar bill Sad to see the old slave mill, Is grinding slow, but grinding still Walking home, a child gets killed, Neighbours free to shoot at will Hurts to see the old slave mill, Is grinding slow, but grinding still Nine to five, we know...

... sugarcane rollers shrouded by an entanglement of healing herbs. Roots dig deep, cracking solid stone walls of abandoned mills, reducing them back to dust. I dig hands in rich red soil, grow things and extract botanical color for textile works. It is the plants such as the wah-wah and noni that speak...

...  |  95 Donald Brown, 2002. Color c-type print, 20 x 16 in. 96  |  The Philosophy of Strangers Pastor Joe Reid, 1997. Bromide print toned, 16 x 16 in. 36 • November 2011 • Franklyn Rodgers  |  97 Elijah Mills...

... 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...

... of politics and culture under the new colonial power. This was particularly true in Arecibo, Capetillo’s hometown, an Atlantic port city and commercial enclave that was surrounded by extensive sugarcane plantations and mills. Historians of radical culture in Puerto Rico are keen to remember Arecibo...

... the possibilities of civilization for the “Creole Negro.” - ere were many elements in this debate, which included the famous exchanges between John Stuart Mill and - omas Carlyle around the “Negro Question.” - e debate was animated by the aftermath of the Morant Bay Rebellion...

... to step out of his passivity and shift his dialogue away from the colonizer toward his own people Anticolonial nationalist movements, said Abdel- ssmallmall Malek, caused a crisis for Orientalist conceptions of “passive, fatalistic ‘subject races aaxexe Charles Mills has spoken...

..., the developments on slave plantations in the Americas signaled a historic departure: “Pressing the canes in the mill, clarifying the liquid in a series of cauldrons, skimming impurities, and pouring the liquid into molds that then crystallized into sugar were processes as old or older than the medieval...

... capitalist modernity unfolds. The sawmill, however, remains a peripheral presence in the text: while the hum of its engines and the cries of its laborers serve as frequent reminders of its operations, the mill and its workforce are never represented directly. The mill workers, in fact, become a further...

... cannot deny, all the while reproving its content. Please accept my humble salutations. Sayonara! (Très honorable correspondant, j’ai été horrifié devant le côté à la fois jésuitique et sophistique de votre argumentation dont je ne peux que reconnaître le brio tout en réprouvant le contenu. Recevez mille...

... into the background. For Carlyle the British had a right to the land they had seized by virtue of the fact that they could exploit it more abundantly. Carlyle’s view was not new. John Locke (1632–1704) had already articulated it.⁷ According to Hall, “Carlyle’s hostility 7. Charles W. Mills...

... in a steel mill, and he was part of a small circle of West Indians who had formed a group called the Caribbean Conference Committee. Among other activities, the committee brought C. L. R. James to Montreal in 1966, during James’s difficult years in the wake of the failure of West Indian Federation...

...-class identity, the racialization of masculinity, and nationalism and empire more generally over a number of years. I still remember the excitement of discovering her article on Th omas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill and Morant Bay in graduate school.² Having sat history at A levels...

... Miguel, Con-federating the Archipelago, a special section of Small Axe 61 (2020), and she translated the poetry collection Spinning Mill (2019) by Legna Rodríguez Iglesias. fredrik thomaSSon is an associate professor of history at Uppsala University, where he works on the Swedish possession (1784 1878...

... translated Spinning Mill by Legna Rodríguez (2019). vanessa K. valDés is the director of the Black Studies Program and a professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the City College of New York. She is the author of Oshun s Daughters: The Search for Womanhood in the Americas (2014) and Diasporic Blackness...

... with an MA in creative practice. She draws inspiration from “entangled roots” in ruined mill sites and landscapes with industrial and postcolonial connections in places she views as home. Having lived in both the United Kingdom and Dominica, she finds that intertwined histories, especially botanical...

.... This is also true, albeit in a different way, for my second example, which is a violent episode against migrants in Cuba. Using the case study of the massacre of British Antilleans in the Jobabo Sugar Mill in 1917, I will illustrate the national, regional, and North Atlantic connections of a local incident...