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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 50–68.
Published: 01 July 2021
... Foucault’s conceptualization of biopolitics casting black sensuality over racial violence. © Small Axe, Inc. 2021 1912 genocide Partido Independiente de Color Afro-Cuban religion antiblack racism critical race theory Perhaps most striking is the way Rolando administers bodies in relation...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 244–246.
Published: 01 November 2013
... Götter: Geschichte und Vorstellungswelt einer afrokubanischen Religion (1991), Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition (2002), and The Cooking of History: How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion (2013), as well as the editor of several volumes on Caribbean and Afro...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 125–137.
Published: 01 November 2013
..., this contestation is subtle. In “Taita Hicotea y Taita Tigre” (“Uncle Turtle and Uncle Tiger”), for example, the wily Turtle is identified as a practitioner of Afro-Cuban religions who uses his powers to trick Tiger and his children. The presence of Afro-Cuban religion—and Turtle's use of it—lends a racial...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 1–10.
Published: 01 March 2020
... in time and prevent the horrible accident. Esther then partners with Eric Vitier, who initiates her into Afro-Cuban religions. They identify the power of the anemone, which Esther/Omicunlé keeps in a pristine marine altar. Eric meets Acilde and hires her as “la mucama de Omicunlé,” Omicunlé’s maid. Esther...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 169–172.
Published: 01 March 2002
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and religious interviews and documentation. Imogene Kennedy’s discourses on kumina
are outstanding examples of such texts.⁶ ? ese had been preceded by M. G. Smith’s
Dark Puritan: e Life and Work of Norman Paul.⁷ Lydia Cabrera’s exegeses on Afro-
Cuban religions,⁸ and Serge Bramly’s Macumba...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 104–110.
Published: 01 July 2015
... that I was omitting this series from my chapter in part because of the exhaustive scholarship on it, I also confessed that I disliked that work and considered it the least moving of her oeuvre. I found in the series problematic appropriations of Afro-Cuban religion and iconography and a frustrating...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 155–163.
Published: 01 March 2016
... Stephan Palmié, The Cooking of History: How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013). 1 Alexandra T. Vazquez, Listening in Detail: Performances of Cuban Music (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013), 197; hereafter cited in the text. To what...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 164–174.
Published: 01 March 2016
... their parents taught them [about Cuba], this imaginary country of their dreams.” 22 If the grain of the voice is the presence of the body in musical performance, the groove enacts the penetration of the body by the music. 20 This concept has sacred roots in Afro-Cuban religions where the divine...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 67–77.
Published: 01 March 2023
... to deconstruct the martyrologies surrounding José Martí and other national heroes and proposes focusing instead on more than just the enslaved and their descendants in their fights against slavery and discrimination. Among these actants, Carbonell includes the gods of the Afro-Cuban religion as powerful entities...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 220–228.
Published: 01 March 2019
... the site will eventually include annotations of Aponte’s descriptions contributed by people across a range of relevant disciplines. We might imagine, for example, classicists and students of Afro-Cuban religion each approaching Aponte’s image of, say, Diogenes and Isis. 18 The other collaborative...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 55–75.
Published: 01 March 2015
... socialist discourse and pejorative attitude toward Afro-Cuban religions as well as on the films' attempt to bring Afro-Cuban identity and history into the center of the national imaginary. 20 Coffea arábiga 's critique is much farther-reaching in its implications, since, in my reading, it addresses...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 17–32.
Published: 01 March 2017
... of History: How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013). 2 When the term obeah is in quotation marks in this essay, it refers to obeah's conception as a moral judgment, a moral burden. When it is not in quotation marks, it refers to obeah's broader use...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 February 2006
..., a regulation that prohibited the organization of people along racial lines
in Cuba and bore the name of its proponent, Morúa Delgado, an Afro-Cuban politician
himself. In 1912, the PIC organized an armed revolt that prompted the government’s
action and ended with the killing of between...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 91–108.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Devyn Spence Benson; Antonio López This essay recovers the history of 1960s and 1970s black movements in Cuba through an examination of works by Afro-Cuban intellectuals and their meetings with Caribbean thinkers to show the coexistence of mestizaje and black consciousness as a defining...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 142–151.
Published: 01 March 2020
...: Pantheon, 2014). For recent scholarship on Plácido, see Matt Pettway, Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection: Manzano, Plácido, and Afro-Latino Religion (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2019); and Aisha Finch, Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba: La Escalera and the Insurgencies...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 123–140.
Published: 01 July 2014
..., 2010), xxiv; Rosalind Shaw, Memories of the Slave Trade: Ritual and the Historical Imagination in Sierra Leone (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992). 73 Ibid., 169; David H. Brown, “Thrones of the Orichas: Afro-Cuban Altars in New Jersey, New York, and Havana,” African Arts 26, no. 4...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 152–154.
Published: 01 March 2020
... in the Department of English and African American and African Studies at Michigan State University, East Lansing. Her forthcoming monograph Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Litera- ture examines the textual and historical relations between diasporic Afro Puerto Rican, Afro- Cuban, Afro...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 218–228.
Published: 01 July 2009
... debate that Roger Bastide phrased in terms of Afro-American cultures that were
en conserve (canned, or preserved), such as, he claimed, Brazilian Candomblé and Cuban
Santería, versus those that were vivantes (living), such as, he claimed, Haitian Vaudou. For all
of what we can now...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 96–116.
Published: 01 July 2011
... the personal narratives of Afro-Cubans that have been
overlooked by the “official record” and offers up a vital revisionist history.
Much of Campos-Pons’s work since she immigrated to North America in 1990 has been
tied to her memories of the place, the people, and the customs she...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 168–178.
Published: 01 June 2008
.... Thus, using the work of the Cuban scholar Fernando
Ortiz, Benítez-Rojo notes, “Afro-Caribbean beliefs appear together with the rumba and the
carnival as forms of knowledge as valid as those proper to scientific knowledge.”15 To my
mind this understanding of new knowledges at sites which...
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