Category Archives: Deborah Thomas

Archive of Violence: the Caribbean and Global Conflicts

Deborah A. Thomas, in Caribbean Studies, Archive Building, and the Problem of Violence,  considers it “the agendas of Caribbean studies to create archives –or, more accurately, counterarchives – in order to make claims about the modern world and the significance

Archive of Violence: the Caribbean and Global Conflicts

Deborah A. Thomas, in Caribbean Studies, Archive Building, and the Problem of Violence,  considers it “the agendas of Caribbean studies to create archives –or, more accurately, counterarchives – in order to make claims about the modern world and the significance

Concerning Violence

Deborah A. Thomas’s “Caribbean Studies, Archive Building, and the Problem of Violence” is one of the more frustrating things I’ve read this week. I admit, it’s been a profoundly terrible week so far. This Monday, my friend Cecily McMillan, a

Concerning Violence

Deborah A. Thomas’s “Caribbean Studies, Archive Building, and the Problem of Violence” is one of the more frustrating things I’ve read this week. I admit, it’s been a profoundly terrible week so far. This Monday, my friend Cecily McMillan, a

Who We Are, Who We Were, Who We’ll Be

The problem of what “voice”, so to speak, an archive has, and what it articulates through it’s body of work, wasn’t a concept that particularly surprised me when I read Deborah A. Thomas’s article, Caribbean Studies, Archive Building, and the Problem

Who We Are, Who We Were, Who We’ll Be

The problem of what “voice”, so to speak, an archive has, and what it articulates through it’s body of work, wasn’t a concept that particularly surprised me when I read Deborah A. Thomas’s article, Caribbean Studies, Archive Building, and the Problem