... of Letters Caribbean working-class intellectual communities On Monday, 10 April 1922, a worker from the town of Río Piedras phoned the headquarters of the Federación Libre de Trabajadores de Puerto Rico (FLT; Free Federation of Workers), located in San Juan’s Allen Street. He shared the somber news...

... with other organizations that included left positions and politics. The work of Oliver Cox and of a range of intellectuals—including George Padmore, and Aimé Césaire in Discourse on Colonialism (1955)—signify here. Some would also see a theoretical model that offered the best analysis of class...

... the young historian declared his “allegiance to Black working class communities, and his commitment to Marxist revolution.” 9 This essay draws on an archive of Rodney’s writing (1959–72) to explore how some key themes that are central to HEUA— especially his insights into colonialism, education...

... colonial discourse. Through it, Thomas and other Afro-Caribbean intellectuals shaped the perception and material reality of their individual, ethnic, and national communities. © 2011 by Small Axe, Inc. 2011 BOOK DISCUSSION: Faith Smith, Creole Recitations: John Jacob Thomas and Colonial Formation...

... of critical re-memories. The essay foregrounds the backstory to make visible the intellectual care work that attends this practice. disagreements critical re-memories interconnected inquiries familiar colonial logics critical intellectual oral histories What has it meant to mobilize Jamaica...

... for appreciating the real scope of his contribution. Easily, Charles was one of the most formidable Jamaican intellectuals of his generation, a thinker whose body of work—including six published books: The Racial Contract ; Blackness Visible ; From Class to Race ; Contract and Domination (with Carole Pateman...

... that are different from modernity. The two processes are not simply intertwined but dialectical. Rodney’s approach was a product of the intellectual debates he was a part of at the University of Dar es Salaam, the courses he taught, and the forms of community he engaged with in direct response to the political...

... links with the working class and labor organizations. This constellation of dissident organizations and social movements in the 1960s had many weaknesses and were no match for the redoubtable state; not one of them ever won broad national support. Nonetheless, because members of this opposition were...

... • DOI 10.1215/07990537-1334167 © Small Axe, Inc. 35 • July 2011 • Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo  |  187 natural association of Creole languages with “folk” or working class “authenticity”—might appear from the vantage point...

... in UCLA’s community, leaving a political and intellectual mark. In many cases, he also left the warm bonds of friendship and affectionate comradeship. I wanted to explicitly situate my students’ reading of Rodney within the geographic and temporal coordinates of our class, thereby removing an implicit sense...

...Louis Chude-Sokei The Black Scholar ( TBS ), established in 1969, emerged from a public confluence of black political and cultural movements—black power, black arts, Pan-Africanism and decolonization, black feminism, and the emergence of a black political class. As primary intellectual organ...

... comfortable with working people than many other middle-class [intellectuals], many of us who were [less so]. I think this has a lot to do with Jamaica’s class divisions. So he’s able to give shape and form intellectually and politically, but not necessarily organizationally, to something...

... of itself: retaining/ revising the boundaries of its identity, sustaining/altering the shape of its self-image, defending/resisting its conceptions of history and community. It seems to us that many of the conceptions that guided the formation of our Caribbean modernities—conceptions of class...

.... For some, the demise of federation meant impossible futures for developing third world economies; for others, it was the internal and intimate racial, ethnic, and class hierarchies within national, communal, and diasporic formations that proved the impasse. Especially in those narratives that focused...

... is the relationship between this draining away of intellectual dissent from the Church and the resurgence of religious orthodoxy? How, in the absence of articulated links to religious or political communities are principles and values handed down? Can the elective affi nities of the postmodern...

... intellectual legacy that we only hint at here, as well as the riches in his work yet to be studied and evaluated. The project of knowledge of positivistic empiricism, as De Moya experienced it in his training in social psychology, epidemiology, and ethnography, was itself a camisa de fuerza with which...

... that summons the past toward the work of the future. We might argue that this idea of time—the interdependence of the living and the dead, the transhistorical character of the experience of community, the continuity of past and future—is a recurrent figure in Caribbean intellectual life that has scarcely...

... organic intellectual. Her sociological and historical research isolated from her other achievements would on their own have made an outstanding contribution to the body of work on the Afro-Caribbean experience. Yet it has been her attempts to apply this research to the needs of the rural community...

... who do not root themselves culturally or politically in ‘the region,’ may lead to their strategic use of their privileged position at the center of the Western intellectual industry to continue the work of upholding the humanity and the historical groundedness of their people...

... to the JLP repression took many forms. There were various nationalist groups and organizations, many of which came together behind the Abeng Newspaper. Many of these groups were formed by radical intellectuals of middle-class backgrounds. Through them, the militance...