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Published: 01 November 2020
Figures 3 and 4 Above left, Afro-Chinese soundsystem pioneer Tom the Great Sebastian (Thomas Wong). Above right, a commemorative illustration by Michael Thompson (a.k.a. Freestylee), Artist without Borders, 2011 (R.055). Courtesy of the estate of Michael Thompson More
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 15–44.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Robert A. Hill Although little studied or understood, the black impostor occupies an important place in the history of the African diaspora. The present essay examines the imposture of Prince Thomas Mackarooroo, aka Prince Ludwig Menelek of Abyssinia, as an avatar of Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 174–185.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Rhonda Cobham Faith Smith's analysis, in Creole Recitations , of the nineteenth-century scholar John Jacob Thomas's often contradictory allegiances offers us a way of reading the counterintuitively parallel career of the poet Eric Roach a century later. Roach is the subject of Laurence Breiner's...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 18–38.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Heather V. Vermeulen Surveyor, penkeeper, overseer, slaveowner, and landholder Thomas Thistlewood (1721–86) was a white English immigrant to British colonial Jamaica who lived there from 1750 until his death. Canonical readings of Thistlewood’s archive quarantine his intellectual pursuits from his...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 53–64.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Deborah A. Thomas; Deborah A. Thomas The long 1950s in Jamaica encompassed the pivotal moments that set into motion the infrastructures of modern political, social, economic, and artistic activity. They also brought into relief struggles over the appropriate scales of interaction, whether national...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 69–84.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Leanna Thomas This essay explores how Daniel Maximin constructs an imagined past in his novel Lone Sun by wrenching archival sources out of their domain and context and selectively situating them in a narrative replete with cultural and oral traditions. It examines how Maximin remembers those who...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 65–80.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Tracy Robinson; Deborah A. Thomas In Jamaica in the 1940s and 1950s, prominent women and women’s organizations led a notorious campaign to promote mass weddings. The campaign targeted working-class black Jamaicans living together in long-term heterosexual relationships and was aimed at improving...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 81–96.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Matthew Chin; Deborah A. Thomas This essay examines discourses of homosexuality in late colonial Jamaica through an analysis of the 1951 Police Enquiry, which leveraged accusations of homosexuality among Jamaica’s foreign police officers as a key component of its investigative work...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 128–142.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Keisha Lindsay; Deborah A. Thomas This essay explores how and with what effect Amy Bailey, a teacher, women’s rights activist, and public intellectual, cofounded the Housecraft Training Centre to educate working-class Jamaican women in cooking, cleaning, childcare, and other “domestic sciences...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 164–180.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Ronald Cummings; Deborah A. Thomas This essay utilizes an alternative politics of directionality as a way of reentering the mid-twentieth-century Caribbean literary archive. Rather than focusing on Windrush as the main orienting point, this discussion examines and regrounds what events...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 181–186.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Donette Francis; Deborah A. Thomas This essay argues that three lessons have emerged from the Jamaican Cultural-Political Modern Project convenings that clarify its productive methodological stakes: living with disagreements, seeing interconnected inquiries, and creating embodied archives...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 187–194.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Phillip Thomas Copyright © 2019 Small Axe, Inc. 2019 Figure 1 High-Sis in the Garden of Heathen , 2017; mixed media on fabric, various dimensions. Figure 1. High-Sis in the Garden of Heathen, 2017; mixed media on fabric, various dimensions. Figure 2 Dem ova Deh Suh, wih ova...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 97–127.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Figures 3 and 4 Above left, Afro-Chinese soundsystem pioneer Tom the Great Sebastian (Thomas Wong). Above right, a commemorative illustration by Michael Thompson (a.k.a. Freestylee), Artist without Borders, 2011 (R.055). Courtesy of the estate of Michael Thompson ...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 143–163.
Published: 01 November 2020
...O’Neil Lawrence; Deborah A. Thomas The “creation” of Jamaican national identity owed much to the artistic movement that preceded and followed independence in 1962. While depictions of the peasantry, particularly male laborers, have become iconic representations of “true” Jamaicans, the scholarship...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 53–66.
Published: 01 July 2020
... territories were far more important than Sweden’s and were, as a matter of fact, a source of inspiration for the Swedish eighteenth-century attempts to acquire territories in the Caribbean. Denmark held St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix, with the latter an important sugar-producing island with a large...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 25–36.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Bonnie Thomas “Memory” has become one of the buzzwords of contemporary historiography. Sparked by the atrocities of the Holocaust and intimately bound up with the concept of trauma, memory studies has gained increasing prominence in many intellectual circles and is particularly useful when...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 210–217.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Deborah A. Thomas This article reflects upon Richard Price's newest work, Travels with Tooy . In it, the author argues that the book - on the surface, a text about the transmission of esoteric knowledge passed down from “First Time” to the present among Saramaka Maroons - is actually...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 193–199.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Deborah A. Thomas This short essay is a response to the reflections of Nadia Ellis, Rivke Jaffe, and Neil Roberts regarding Exceptional Violence. It uses their reflections as a springboard to think through anthropological practice more broadly. Roberts is also pointing to this same issue, filling...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 62–78.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Greg Thomas This essay reads Sylvia Wynter's “Black Metamorphosis” as a text that both examines and embodies maroonage, significantly, in various ways and on various levels. It takes off from Aimé Césaire's underacknowledged imperative, “Marronnons-nous,” recognizing and demonstrating the import...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (2): 25–48.
Published: 01 September 2002
...Deborah A. Thomas Small Axe Incorporated 2002 Modern Blackness: “What We Are and What We Hope to Be” Deborah A. Thomas his is a progressive tale, or rather a tale of progress redefi ned in Jamaica. Like most tales, it has its various twists and turns, but I am going to focus...