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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 36–52.
Published: 01 July 2014
... Jamaica get a move on,” wrote Walter Fletcher in a letter to the editor of the Daily Gleaner in December 1929. “We are behind the times in most things here but let us not be any longer behind the time in establishing our own Jamaica Broadcasting Station.” 1 As he pointed out, Havana and Port-au...
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Published: 01 November 2017
Figure 1. A burned-out gas station at Coral Gardens. © 1963 The Gleaner Co. (Media) Ltd. More
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Published: 01 November 2017
Figure 2. Onlookers at the Barnett Street Police Station, Montego Bay, where two members of the Rastafarian group in Coral Gardens were being held. Later, many innocent people were detained and mistreated there in acts of collective punishment of Rastas. © 1963 The Gleaner Co. (Media) Ltd. More
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 167–178.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Figure 1. A burned-out gas station at Coral Gardens. © 1963 The Gleaner Co. (Media) Ltd. ...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 218–222.
Published: 01 March 2004
... that this document of history is going to repeat itself. Lashley’s son, the one who used to court Marilyn, and is now assistant manager at the radio station, is on the air: - Georgetown is hemorrhaging. Water Street is on fi re. Th e prime minister’s house is under siege. Th e police and volunteer force...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 115–122.
Published: 01 July 2016
... and shuffles down to the Mobile gas station, where, as seems entirely appropriate, he turns in and pulls up to one of the available gas pumps. Here, with baby oil, Ward performs a brief ritual of hand washing/hand wringing: a sort of libation or tribute. He kneels in front of the Crusader and spins its hood...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 88–110.
Published: 01 June 2007
... good to say about her. But her time had come. She had told Glen to pick her up at the pump house station at 6:30 p.m. And he was a prompt man. Six-thirty gave her time to make the fifteen-minute walk to the pump station on the edge of the highway. Gave her time to settle and fix herself for him...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 158–164.
Published: 01 July 2014
... out. Close to his mother's apartment, he breaks away from my hand that has rested guardingly on his shoulder, grabs the bag of gas station goodies from my loose grasp, and runs into the yard virtually screaming to his mother that I said that he should ask her for his sister. I ensure that he's...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 125–137.
Published: 01 March 2014
... to the councilman and made further requests for improving the conditions of roads and expressing the town's need for a telephone office. 14 In April 1935, the minutes report that the association had received a letter from Councilman Reid “regarding Polling Station and Telephone here” and “promising to give...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 223–236.
Published: 01 July 2013
... with this?” “Sit tight and he will come home. The more trouble you make …” “To look for a missing child is to make trouble?” He placed the cap back on his pen and glanced at his breakfast. “Come,” he said. “Come and talk outside. I'll walk you out.” He walked her out of the station, his hand...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 109–117.
Published: 01 March 2015
... education project Olodum, and the interests of tropicalista pop musicians Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, and Gal Costa could all play a part. Magalhães owned, through members of his family, six television stations, which were regional affiliates to the dominant TV Globo network, as well as three radio...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 97–127.
Published: 01 November 2020
... echolocated itself geopolitically at the convergence of many competing imperial (US, UK) and neighboring anticolonial (Cuba, Haiti, Mexico) radio signals in the postwar 1950s. Tuning in, northern parts of the archipelago could hear Tennessee shortwave radio stations such as WLAC, a clear channel station...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): vii–x.
Published: 01 March 2012
... to exist.2 In Sharpe, Bleby had found a black image of the sacrifice at Calvary. Bleby, remember, was a Weslyan missionary stationed at Lucea, Hanover, at the time the Baptist War broke out. He believed he recognized in Sharpe not only someone fluently eloquent in the rhetorical...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 53–64.
Published: 01 November 2020
... in American mills, making shoes, driving bull carts, working in trades, doing domestic work, having children. One subject even worked at the US Naval Station in Guantánamo Bay. Many spent several years in one place before going to another; others spent decades in one place; some went back and forth...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): vii–x.
Published: 01 November 2020
... station on my arrival from London and driving me at a furious speed to his house to be welcomed and fed by his wife, Avis. 7 See Richard Hart, The Grenada Trial: A Travesty of Justice (Kingston: Foundation for Phyllis Coard, 1996), and The Grenada Revolution: Setting the Record Straight (London...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 174–185.
Published: 01 November 2009
... of opposition newspapers or radio stations, no use of the state security forces for harassment or intimidation. It involved, instead, an endless series of concessions along with repeated offers to share power with his opponents and to participate in further rounds of internationally super...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 200–211.
Published: 01 March 2010
... their society into what was effectively a caste society, where blackness meant inferiority and whiteness superiority. It is going too far to say that Jamaica invented the biological racism of the nineteenth century, but it was a way station along the road on which racism was pioneered. It was also a way...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 57–62.
Published: 01 July 2018
..., Don’t worry. I’m a good man. Always worry when someone says don’t worry, were my father’s words. Juan stops at a gas station and gets out of the car. A panic enters my body. Worse than the day Lenny threw up tapeworm and his face turned red because they were caught in his throat. I thought...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 104–118.
Published: 01 November 2019
... 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 office, police station, and magistrate’s court. The only public buildings on the plantation were...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 125–139.
Published: 01 October 2006
... in American hip-hop on popular cable television stations. Dancehall’s cosmopolitan flavor and its inward and outward reach favor the strategic re- fashioning of the self to approximate “foreign” images of superstar status that are broadcast on popular cable TV channels like BET and MTV...