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Fierce competition from The Black Jacobins (and someone might say Minty Alley) but BAB is my personal favorite—a praisesong for the genius of working people in the Caribbean.

Kinda like this lowkey

On a separate note, this isn’t even the most exciting development in the study of CLR James in my own household this week.
news.uchicago.edu/story/lost-p...

“Radiation and the Question of Power: C.L.R. James and the Struggle for Chaguaramas” - Small Axe

read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/ar...

“Rumors of a War: Radar and Power in Trinidad and Tobago” - Clash! Voices for a Caribbean Federation from Below

medium.com/clash-voices...

And the brilliant cover image features the work of Zenaéca Singh whose work examines the “complex history of the sugar economy in South Africa and its entanglement with migration, colonialism, labour exploitation, and the dynamics of the domestic sphere.”

partiful.com/e/oYY9D6L1l8...

www.spectralremix.org/takeover

You can also read our inaugural editorial as Christen and I begin our three-year term at the helm of the journal. Stay tuned for the fall and beyond! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Yes, the Red Wedding is an extended metaphor here (but it was a lashing, indeed)! And plenty more to mull over on the common frustrations across Tobago and the southwest peninsula.