Melanie Newton

The children of Africa in the colonies : free people of color in Barbados in the age of emancipation

"The Race Leapt at Sauteurs: Genocide, Narrative and Indigenous Exile from the Caribbean" in Caribbean Quarterly special issue on the Garifuna people, 60 (2), 5-28

"Returns to a Native Land?' Indigeneity and Decolonisation in the Anglophone Caribbean" in Small Axe, 41, 108-122

This essay explores the narrative of “aboriginal absence,” arguably the foundational colonial myth of Caribbean history. Since the early colonial period, the space of the “native” in the Caribbean context has been treated as a space left vacant for others to fill. Beginning in the 1960s, this narrative of aboriginal absence was widely incorporated across […]