1.Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909), a clergyman and author, wrote the realistic story “The Man Without a Country”.
2.My Jeffers file was misplaced during one of the hurricanes in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
1.Several reviewers have made pertinent remarks about my works, but the “faithful critics” are Charles Rowell, Jerry W. Ward, and Rita B. Dandridge.
1.Bahamian Creole word meaning “broken down vehicle”, e.g. bicycle or motorized vehicle. Used among British airmen during World War II as a verb signifying “crash”.
1.Welsh: literally “Little Mrs Jones”, but used as a term of endearment.
2.Welsh: “small family”.
1.Welsh: “Little Johnny”.
2.Welsh: “Ugh!”
1.Welsh: “Bloody English!”
2.Welsh: “Don’t worry, Denis dear.”
1.Chèlbè, Haitian Creole for showy.
2.“of American Marines, 1915”, a reference to 1915−34 US military occupation of Haiti.
1.“A Stateless Poem” addresses a September 2013 ruling by the Dominican Republic Constitutional Court that stripped citizenship of Dominican-born persons without a Dominican parent, going back to 1929. The majority of persons affected are Dominicans of Haitian descent.
1.so mail me a letter so I can tape the envelopes with your handwriting as evidence of things that held on to you
2.three four any amount you like as long as there’s evidence in them that you were thinking of me so I can devise ways of organizing the world into those that left & those that held on to you
3.one strategy to maintain a collection of gestures & things that held on to you
4.separate beds curses the plush blue bathrobe behind the bathroom door memories that held on to you
5.that incubator in the back door that held on to you
6.long dreams that held on to you
7.gods with flaming tongues that held on to you
8.ordinary ones big ones the little ones we call idols everything that held on to you
9.fives & sixes laws & fixes everything was a balance that held on to you
10.insist on their stories would betray the ones that held on to you
11.these are lists to explain ourselves to no one
12.when princess anne came to our high school at gayaza we lined up to meet her
13.hobday
14.warren
15.cutler
1.& straight out of british a-levels a volunteer to teach us girls us African girls so we made it our business to keep his face in flush because none of us turned red with embarrassment & that also was physics but he probably was not there for the occasion but what’s memory if we can’t play inside it we kept his face red
2.at our school prefects for that day we were lined up to shake the hand of the daughter of the queen
3.who knew that we would could would have to witness whiteness as stratified categorized classed
4.hitherto as white people who loved us so much that they gave up all the thrilling possibilities of the good lives we’d read about what it was to be European to teach generations & generations of us african girls until the end of time about how to be decent educated good christian women
5.there they were all three of them in utter & complete adulation of the daughter of the queen & us prefects good girls still in the learning to be how do we be how do we be how do we be us who were being taught to be the good modern african christian women who did not worship idols or false gods or men or the daughter of the queen
6.because even with her white glove on even with our teachers on one knee she was no bigger than our elders for whom we went down on both knees
1.Chatham House (2010) “The business case for gender equality: key findings from evidence for action paper” Paris. Available at: www.oecd.org/dac/genderdevelopment/45569192.pdf.
1.Kelleher, F. (2017) “Disrupting Orthodoxies in Economic Development: An African Feminist Perspective”, Feminist Africa, Vol. 22.
2.Kelleher, F. (2017) “African Feminism and the Struggle for Africa’s ‘Development’”, presentation at the Africa Utopia Festival, July 15, 2017 as part of the session Africa: Feminism and the Future. Podcast avail. at: www.southbankcentre.co.uk/blog/africa-feminism-and-future-africa-utopia-2017-podcast.
3.Barrientos et al (2012) “Economic and social upgrading in global production networks: A new paradigm for a changing world”, International Labour Review, Vol. 150, Issue 3–4.
1.Kelleher et al (2011) Women and the Teaching Profession: Exploring the Feminisation Debate, UNESCO, Paris.
2.Matthews, A. (2016) “Rise of women teachers ‘turning boys off education’ as report reveals girls born this year will be 75% more likely to go to university” Mail Online, published 12th May 2016, available at: www.dailymail.co.uk/newsarticle-3586401/Rise-women-teachers-turning-boys-education-report-reveals-girls-bornyear-75-likely-university.html.
3.Glover, J. (2007) “Riven by class and no social mobility—Britain in 2007”, The Guardian, Saturday 20th October 2007, available at: www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/oct/20/britishidentity.socialexclusion.
1.Ibrahim, Z. et al (2018) Counting the Cost: The Price Society Pays for Violence Against Women, CARE International, Geneva.
2.Beavers, S. & Kampf, B. (2013) Violence Against Women Also Hurts Business and Development, 29th March 2013 United Nations Development Programme, available at: www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/ourperspective/ourperspectivearticles/2013/03/29/violence-against-women-also-hurts-business-and-development.html.
1.For the women assaulted and raped by former Oklahoma City Police Officer Daniel Holtzclaw, who targeted Black women for his crimes because he believed if they told, no one would believe them.
1.www.mediaed.org/transcripts/Stuart-Hall-Race-the-Floating-Signifier-Transcript.pdf
1.Obono fam: effeminate, a non-violent man, a man who acts like a woman.
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