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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 56–67.
Published: 01 November 2018
...David Featherstone This essay contributes to work on the contested racialized articulations of conjunctures by engaging with the spatial practices through which racialized in/securities became politicized in the period after the First World War. It explores the forms of opposition to riots against...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 78–95.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Greg Beckett Set against the backdrop of soaring inflation, rolling blackouts, fuel riots, roadblocks, and antigovernment protests, this essay explores a new language of political crisis in Haiti that draws on the concept of unlivable life. In so doing, it seeks to directly connect political...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 89–99.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Justin Izzo This essay examines the roles played by ethnographic writing and translation in Raphaël Confiant's 1994 L'allée des soupirs . This novel fictionalizes the 1959 riots in Martinique while simultaneously creating characters who debate the relative merits of modes of expression capable...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 167–178.
Published: 01 November 2017
... Town from 1963 to 1966; the 1966 state visit of Haile Selassie; and the riots spawned in 1968 by the government expulsion of University of the West Indies lecturer Walter Rodney. This crisis arose from a clash of paths of development—a largely neocolonial one that marginalized the epistemic...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 134–149.
Published: 01 March 2019
... Johnson (with a citation from the poet Frederick Williams). Several occurrences and episodes, from postwar immigration itself through to “the New Cross Massacre” and incidents of rioting, are also considered. Copyright © 2019 Small Axe, Inc. 2019 black Britain Caribbean migration reggae music...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 39–70.
Published: 01 September 2003
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of racial subjugation. Th ere exists what can properly be called a particular conjuncture of BBillill
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events, comprising the impact of the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, and the riots and rebel-
lions within...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 54–69.
Published: 01 October 2006
... and the London metropolitan police force, presaging the massive riots
3. See Linton Kwesi Johnson, “Rebel Music,” Race and Class 26 (1974): 398.
4. Ibid., 411.
5. Linton Kwesi Johnson, Inglan is a Bitch (London: Race Today Publications, 1980) and Forces of Victory, Mango, LP
(1979).
6. LKJ’s...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 1–7.
Published: 01 July 2013
...: A Tract for Africa and the Empire (London: Faber and Faber, 1936). On the labor riots in the West Indies generally, see O. Nigel Bolland, On the March: Labour Rebellions in the British Caribbean, 1934–39 (London: James Curry, 1995); and on Jamaica in 1938, see Ken Post, Arise Ye Starvelings...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 31–51.
Published: 01 November 2022
... fifteen years earlier when the anti-Catholic agitator John Sayers Orr stoked Black Guyanese resentment toward Portuguese shopkeepers. 30 Nicknamed “Angel Gabriel” for his habit of gathering crowds with a trumpet, Orr was jailed for incitement after an allegedly incendiary sermon. This set off riots...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 77–96.
Published: 01 March 2019
... to persons of Chinese descent. 19 This resentment had been made evident in the anti-Chinese riots of 1965 (and previously, in episodes of anti-Chinese unrest in 1918 and 1938). See, for example, Howard Johnson, “The Anti-Chinese Riots of 1918 in Jamaica,” Caribbean Quarterly 28, no. 3 (1982): 19–32...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 94–111.
Published: 01 July 2017
..., violence weaves through the daily tissues of our living—in the supermarket, in the classroom, in the elevator, in the clinic and the schoolyard … the waitress who does not serve us.” 49 Throughout When the Moon Waxes Red , Khan's aesthetic is bold, confrontational, and, to evoke Lemke, riotous. Riots...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 154–166.
Published: 01 October 2007
... with the capacity to incite riot (read: to undo the lines of white race
loyalty), ostensibly enjoying cult-like status, challenges, in community, an institution to exam
ine itself. In one sense, then, both the (then) administration at the New School University
apprehended that power of the erotic (though...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 63–84.
Published: 01 November 2017
... transformation. Through these critiques of colonial administration, US representatives to the AACC hoped to alleviate unemployment and therefore prevent renewed outbursts of political unrest akin to the late-1930s labor riots, unrest that in their view might also encourage African Americans in the United States...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (1): 95–111.
Published: 01 February 2007
... at the time where labour
riots did not occur until the 1950s, but he does not explain why Grenada escapes the riots of the 1930s. In this
analysis, the answer is likely related to the trade union leadership of T. A. Marryshow and Fred Patterson, who were
opposed to riots because they would...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 187–196.
Published: 01 July 2020
... unrest by nationalizing financial institutions. Nationalization furthered the perception that governments were in control, had the potential to force the hiring of local staff, and could preserve some domestic capital for internal use. Prime Minister Eric Williams responded to army mutiny and rioting...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 177–193.
Published: 01 November 2023
... at him from the upstairs window. And outside you have the masses of people streaming towards [the Red House]. And Georgetown is burning . . . and riots!” 25 In the midst of this upheaval, Guyana represented one key node of geopolitical struggle. It attracted many from the Caribbean and beyond...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (2): 72–200.
Published: 01 September 2002
... with the Barbados of your memory, the Barbados of your
childhood and boyhood. Some of the details of that period are of course known, but
what would you say is your most vivid childhood memory of the 1930s?
George Lamming: I think the riots of 1937. And I am just about nine or ten. And it
would take me...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 72–86.
Published: 01 March 2014
..., strike action, rioting—phenomena revealed through newspapers and various kinds of government documents. This is a highly synchronic comparison—the peak of militance was 1932–35 in both places—with some differences of situation but a common tendency toward female autonomy within male-led organizations...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 1–31.
Published: 01 September 2004
... through strikes, social protest, and, ultimately, riots. In 1938 a riot and strike started by laborers at a sugar manufacturing company, the Frome Estate of the West Indies Sugar Company, led to widespread worker protests, stoppages, and unrest. For Marxist historian Ken Post, the riots, the subsequent...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 139–153.
Published: 01 October 2007
... to
think of feminist pedagogy as always-already an engagement with the erotic. I am suggesting
here that a feminist pedagogy that is able to incite our students to riot is a pedagogy that also
incites our students to love.11
That Women’s Studies scholars have some degree of anxiety in claiming...
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