...Kevon Rhiney This essay draws on Jovan Scott Lewis’s Scammer’s Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica (2020), a rich ethnographic study of lottery scammers in Jamaica and the ethical logic they use to justify scamming as a form of reparations, to think about the limits of Black reparative...

...Jovan Scott Lewis In this response essay, the author returns to his arguments in Scammer’s Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica (2020) to further consider the limits of repair as advanced by the book’s crew of Jamaican lottery scammers. The author reconsiders some of the arguments to examine...

... by Rodney nor the potential of the idea of a reparatory historical ethics. At least as I have commended it, a reparatory rationality (that is, a mode of thinking animated by repair) is distinctive inasmuch as it is concerned with past historical injustice that remains unrepaired in the present. 31...

...Charles V. Carnegie This essay argues that a noncontingent, nonexclusionary notion of humanity’s oneness— constituted through difference rather than denying it—provides a principled foundation for social renewal and repair at all social scales. This foundation of human oneness is essential...

... my perspective a moral or reparatory history does not suppose that all historical wrongs are such as can be repaired. In my usage, anyway, a moral and reparatory history is, expressly, not a progressivist history. 5 Part of the significance of a moral and reparatory history is precisely...

..., she refuses the aspirations for repair that neglect implies. By stressing the impossibility of repairing the violence of British colonial rule, her work instead asks, What new forms of thought become possible beyond argumentative frames of repair? Jamaica Kincaid neglect debt empire liberalism...

... repair. It considers how the multiple devastations of recent “unnatural disasters” in the Caribbean are the outcome of the coloniality of climate, the deadly logics of racial capitalism, and the persistence of antiblack racism globally. The coloniality of climate calls for attention to repair, care...

...Patricia Noxolo In a discussion of Jovan Scott Lewis’s Scammer’s Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica (2020), the book is considered as ethnography written from “inside the circle” (Sadiya Hartman) of a generation of young Black men brought up in Jamaica. Nonetheless, Lewis shows genuine...

...: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica (2020)—the crime of poverty—the essay explores how emerging anti–money laundering / combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regulatory policies are changing the terrain of struggle to recuperate and repudiate the devaluation of Black life in the Caribbean...

... intellectual and political momentum around the question of repair for the historical injustice of the slave trade and the institution of slavery itself, signaled by the recent announcement that the regional organization CARICOM will be seeking reparations from Britain, France, and the Netherlands through...

... in and chair of the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. His research examines the questions of racial capitalism, underdevelopment, and repair. He is author of Scammer’s Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica (2020). His book on the consequences of the 1921 Tulsa race...

... Aidoo, was organized around my essay “Between Revolution and Repair: Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa in a Caribbean Intellectual Tradition,” published in 2023 in Small Axe . 2 Perversely, I feel obliged to say, publication has not secured the essay a restful sense of completion...

... ways? These questions do not have easy answers, but Sheller reminds us that the only way forward is to embrace a politics of “repair, care, and reparations.” 21 How can we begin to imagine such repair in Haiti unless we first take stock of the damage? 1 Greg Beckett, There Is No More Haiti...

... them. The realm of the spiritual is what hails followers—the familiar verse in Matthew that the last will become first and the first, last, offered a promise for repair in the hereafter. Yet given that so much has been written about the ways Abrahamic religions (since their foundation) have...

... a swift temporary repair to return the bust to some semblance of its former wholeness while still acknowledging its current state. Using the sculptor’s mark as a departure point for research, I was able to identify the artist, his subject, and how the product of their collaboration came...

... hopelessness. It also might open avenues for thinking about projects of repair since it challenges the “culture of violence” trope through nuanced, engaged, and embodied structural historical and transnational accounts of the contemporary situation rather than through a strictly vindicationist perspective...

... inherited a station in 1942 from the Gayle Community Center, which was unable to pay for the repairs. At Guy's Hill, the radio broke twice and was repaired, but the third time it required a new valve. Stanley Motta, the distributor for RCA in Jamaica and owner of a radio repair shop, indicated...

...” (106). How should we understand the temporalities, the “when” of crisis, if it is a chronic condition? 20 Jovan Lewis’s analysis of scamming as repair for sufferation and Alana Osbourne’s work on “time-tricking” in Kingston could be considered as exceptions; see Scammer’s Yard , 58, 158...

... (a context of shifting sensibilities as much as a context of social and political change) is the emergence of new political discourses of repair for past injury and injustice. The last two or three decades have witnessed a rapid 12. For an insightful and skeptical reading...

...—the move from “victim to victor” (in the words of Cosby and Poussaint) is central to the narrative of coherency in the assumption that black manhood is an impoverished mas- culinity in need of repair and or rescue, and the unspoken is that a good douse of patriarchy would do it well...