SX Blog

Small Axe is proud to announce Issue (3) of sx archipelagos, "Slavery in the Machine." This issue welcomes Jessica Johnson (Johns Hopkins U.) as guest editor, and is dedicated to the memory of late Caribbean scholar Linda Rodriguez. This special issue aims to highlight scholarship situated at the intersection of technology and hemispheric American slavery. The issue includes essays by Nick Nesbitt, Ada Ferrer, Linda Rodriguez, Marlene Daut, Jessica Johnson, and a speculative "research pocket" by Marisa Parham. Our projects section presents the Early Caribbean Digital Archive, including our peer-review exchange with Elizabeth Dillon and Nicole Aljoe, and project overviews from Parham, Laurent Dubois, David Kirkland Garner and Mary Caton Lingold. In our project review section Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert takes a close look at the Puerto Rico Syllabusby Yarimar Bonilla and Marisol LeBrón.