Making Love (and Maps), Not War

Abstract The 1918 anti-Chinese riots, which saw scores of Chinese-owned stores destroyed by largely Afro-descended peasant community members, are popularly remembered as one the worst acts interracial violence in Jamaica's postemancipation history. However, examining coverage riots Gleaner, newspaper record, author embarks on a mapping project to help show network nonconforming and anticolonial collaborations within these communities that existed tandem with tensions. aim is how recapturing productive from past can animate intersectional forms activism present. Furthermore, article explores Patricia Powell, queer Caribbean writer, uses her novel Pagoda perform same work map creating counterhistory gives voice anticolonial, nation-building strategies subaltern groups lost gaps official colonial archives.