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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 69–82.
Published: 01 July 2021
... the unstable relationships among the aforesaid groups and settle in St. Croix. The French settlement of St. Croix went through different periods of leadership under the Order of Malta (1653–64), the French West India Company (1664–74), and the Crown Colony (1674–96). St. Croix was never a successful colony...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 59–77.
Published: 01 July 2011
... and destination/away/settlement societies. This emphasis has arguably restricted our comprehension of the complexity of transnational practices that connect people not just with the place they left but across sites of migration. Drawing on the example of Caribbean women who travel regularly between Toronto...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 144–153.
Published: 01 July 2022
..., and in the current rounds of colonial settlement through tax haven conditions in the realm of real estate. The essay shifts the language of anticolonial sensorial errancy to decolonial sensorial errancy to focus on the forms of “slow violence” of economic invasion/ control, the productivity of which presses us...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 134–146.
Published: 01 November 2021
... epistemological status as the Garifuna homeland associated with ancestral marronage. The author looks at how public performances of Garifuna Settlement Day in Central America and the United States (New York City is home to the largest Garifuna communities outside Central America’s Caribbean coasts) open...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 200–211.
Published: 01 March 2010
... jeremiads about how the settlement and exploitation of the Americas exemplified the darkness that is present in men's souls. Brown's vision of a Jamaica that looked like heaven but which was instead a hell on earth is compelling. I do wonder, however, whether in this hell there may have been some patches...
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in Black Caribs / Garifuna: Maroon Geographies of Indigenous Blackness
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2021
Figure 2 Members of the Joseph Chatoyer Dance Company participate in Garifuna Settlement Day at Brooklyn Borough Hall, 2014. Photograph courtesy of the author
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 76–82.
Published: 01 March 2024
...” (141). I take the book back with me to fieldwork in a place in Jamaica categorized as a squatter settlement, located on a former sugar plantation. Served with eviction notices, those living there repeatedly responded, “We’ve always been here.” 11 The second cut thinks with an enforcer—a local...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 57–71.
Published: 01 July 2009
.... In this way they could continue to pro-
vide seasonal labor in the sugarcane fields owned by the estates, while farming the plots of
land provided as one of the bonuses for settlement in Trinidad. Many had saved to purchase
small plots of land, and many others also leased uncultivated land from...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 205–208.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Copyright © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc. 2022 K athleen D onegan is associate professor of English and Daniel E. Koshland Distinguished Chair in Writing at the University of California, Berkeley. She is author of Seasons of Misery: Catastrophe and Colonial Settlement in Early America (2014...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): vii–x.
Published: 01 March 2014
... of reconciliation, whether in the settlement shaped by Mandela, in admittedly constrained circumstances, something had not been yielded by the enemies of justice in order that even more could be retained by them, whether something precious had not been lost even as so much of value was gained. Redress, here...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 175–185.
Published: 01 March 2021
...” does not recount the Caribbean migrant’s arrival and settlement in Britain but rather explores a different narrative of arrival, from the life of a rural laborer in South Wales to urbanity and social respectability in Cardiff, which relied not only on class identity but also on “a taken for granted...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 168–178.
Published: 01 July 2010
... family memoir, dedicated to her deceased parents, Doris and Marcus, describes
an absolute mythical past of national beginning.12 This family memoir coincides with the
settlement of Harvey River in Hanover Parish, Jamaica, in 1840, by Doris’s grandfather, the
Englishman William Harvey...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 167–174.
Published: 01 March 2021
... was telling him that it was time to put his affairs in order and this time she brought up the children, asking him to consider their future for they could not inherit Lincoln [Settlement] if they were not named in a will. (288) Following Mary Ivey’s thoughts, Carby describes the powerlessness...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 108–122.
Published: 01 July 2014
... establish a friendly society for their aid. By the late 1920s, there was a community of about two thousand returnees living in informal settlements around the area of Metia Bruz in Calcutta, unable to reach or reintegrate into their distant home villages. 9 Some were vulnerable to acts of criminality...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 1–17.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of racialized dispossession. Enslaved mothers were enmeshed in the foundational metalanguages of early modern Atlantic ideas of slavery, freedom, and racial colonialism. 2 From the first founding of English settlements in the Caribbean to the slow unfolding of racial slavery in Virginia, early modern...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 1–21.
Published: 01 November 2011
... of a savior, and by Marie-Sophie’s own recogni-
tion that, in staking her claim to a place in City, she was “entering [her]self directly into that
very old struggle” (T, 297): a struggle that does not conclude once her settlement wins its
recognition (and thus its security) from the city council...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 19–26.
Published: 01 March 2009
... and linkage, sepa-
ration and reconnection in Ingrid Pollard’s image collection. The fragmented relations produced
by dislocation and migration and the affiliative self-fashioning of settlement and dwelling are
captured in her series “Oceans Apart.” Pollard describes her photographic practice...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 128–135.
Published: 01 July 2023
...; or the Maroons from the band of Padrejean, who rebelled in Saint-Domingue, made their peace with the Spanish slaveholders in Santo Domingo, and founded the settlement of San Lorenzo de los Negros Mina; or indeed the early Haitian insurgents of 1791, who accepted Spanish arms and Spanish military commissions...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 98–110.
Published: 01 November 2017
... politics in the years immediately leading to political independence—and those of other politicians in the nationalist movement—facilitated an incongruous political settlement that continued the coloniality of power on the island. That settlement allowed Britain to direct events according to its...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 178–185.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of the city. He mourns the sight of white limestone quarries where soil and trees previously covered the hillsides—exposing “the mountains’ bones ( zo )” (209)—and notes how the city’s concrete structures are built from this limestone: I thought about all the squatter settlements in Martissant, the ones...
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