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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 149–160.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Tzarina T. Prater This essay contributes to ongoing debates about cultural and national identity and belonging in Jamaica by taking up the primary trope of the “shop” as the sole site of black and Chinese interaction. Through analyzing the fiction and poetry of Easton Lee, the essay considers how...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 97–127.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of the “sound-system” to the networks of local small-retail grocery shops, ubiquitous across Jamaica, that were owned and operated by Jamaican Chinese shopkeepers and examines how they formed material infrastructures. In charting the hardwiring of speakers and how the sociality of the shop housed the production...
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in Bigger than the Sound: The Jamaican Chinese Infrastructures of Reggae
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2020
Figure 9 Wife and husband cofounders of the music label VP Records, Patricia “Miss Pat” Chin and Vincent “Randy” Chin, in their shop, Randy’s Record Mart, in Kingston, Jamaica, 1958. Courtesy of VP Records
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in Bigger than the Sound: The Jamaican Chinese Infrastructures of Reggae
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2020
Figure 2 Map of Jamaican Chinese business infrastructure distribution across Jamaica, 1957–1963. The dot density (i.e., darker dots) on this map indicates multiple shops in one area. Designed by Tao Leigh Goffe, 2017 (Datawrapper)
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 138–151.
Published: 01 November 2017
... superseded, geographically and functionally, by the new business center and satellite Uptown shopping districts around which their own lives revolve. However, compelled to acknowledge the formidable economic, political, and sociocultural presence of the poor, they also see both groups as coexisting...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 59–77.
Published: 01 July 2011
... of the pick-up points around Toronto on the days that the buses were
leaving, including long-weekend trips and day excursions. Finally, I have gone on several of
the tours to Brooklyn and to the shopping outings, interacting and speaking with travelers,
and on each occasion spending the day...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 167–181.
Published: 01 March 2010
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in Cross Roads, soap, rags, and bucket in hand and a melody on his lips. That evening Ser-
geant sang a variety of arrangements that combined reggae and mento rhythms with classical
tunes as he made his way to Miss Gracie’s shop.
The wooden shed at the front of Miss Gracie’s yard was painted...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 184–188.
Published: 01 March 2010
... and work as a team was
boldly written across the front of his shop. I imagine that many have welcomed that verse, in
a time when each person individually felt unequal to the effort of keeping crime down. These
are words that a politician would use to gather people to him or her...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 20–35.
Published: 01 March 2012
...). As shopkeeper, he is read by the community as an exploiter, yet not
“thief” enough to satisfy the dominant’s definition of manhood—Cecil criticizes Lowe for not
cheating his customers more. Lowe, in turn, misreads the community, believing that blacks
burned down the shop (15). Jamaica is a hostile home...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 31–51.
Published: 01 November 2022
... getting berry dangah, man mus’ min’ he P. and Q, 3 An’ keep he arm in adah an’ take ca’e wa he do. 4 You no membah a Head tax ’tory—a Hangel Gabriel year, 5 Man pay two dallah hat-hat so befo he head can clear, 6 Fo’ shaka awee brok’ dem Potugee shop, make Senio run fo’ moh, 7...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 123–134.
Published: 01 July 2017
... two Caribbean Indian women are in an Indian sweet shop in Vancouver, which triggers their feeling of inauthenticity. And I see that echoed in your film. The young man starts off saying, “I'm Brahmin with how many Hindu generations, but really I'm not, I'm just a coolie,” which again is this anxiety...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 248.
Published: 01 March 2004
... punishable off ence.
MTh e following images are representative of an ongoing series called “Th e House
of Windsor,” based on images from books bought in jumble sales, charity shops, and
market stalls. Infl uences include the drawings of Van Gogh, Outsider Art, Kuba masks
(Zaire), and Victorian colored...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 249–251.
Published: 01 March 2004
... punishable off ence.
MTh e following images are representative of an ongoing series called “Th e House
of Windsor,” based on images from books bought in jumble sales, charity shops, and
market stalls. Infl uences include the drawings of Van Gogh, Outsider Art, Kuba masks
(Zaire), and Victorian colored...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 17–39.
Published: 01 November 2017
... Regardless, Gainder's testimonies are preserved and passed on through her daughter's shop books. There is a sly irony in this novel's account books, which record more than just overwritten narratives; they record favored ones as well: in addition to Gainder's songs, Lily's accounts are also evidence...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 104–118.
Published: 01 November 2019
... Guyanese, descendants of enslaved Africans, and the plantation Vryheid’s Lust, which was populated entirely by Indian Guyanese like my family who were descendants of indentured laborers from India. 10 Plaisance had grocery shops, other shops, including two rum shops, a drugstore, railway station, post...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 16–33.
Published: 01 October 2007
... hotel, a casino, spa, shopping village, and
golf course.29 These isolated luxury developments are enabled in part by new airports, heli-
ports, and growth in flights that make them more accessible, but also by colonial histories,
neocolonial presents, and neoliberal policy...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 111–117.
Published: 01 July 2010
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from the corner shop blaring his new
sound and selling rum too dear.
But board houses change to concrete
and jade vines curling through
the lattice work replaced...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 140–157.
Published: 01 March 2003
... you’d rather do?”
What could I say to that? Before Arjun, I had nothing but doubts about my future.
Now I let myself be persuaded by his confi dence in us as a couple, which was far, far
stronger than my confi dence in myself.
. e following Saturday my best friend, Celia, and I went shopping...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 36–52.
Published: 01 July 2014
..., the few receivers present at the initiation of local broadcasting were placed in public places—cafes or shops that were open to the street, so that pedestrians could hear, or where people could gather to listen to particular broadcasts. 49 Although it requires further exploration, the social geography...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 112–118.
Published: 01 June 2008
... the women on Caribbean planta-
tions. The ornamental sticker “frames,” “chains,” and “pilasters” adhered to the wall surround-
ing the lithographs mimic paper versions which were sold in print shops so that poorer people
could imitate the way in which these portraits would have been...
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