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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 38 Achille Mbembe, “Necropolitics,” Public Culture 15, no. 1 (2003): 14...
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View articletitled, The Dual Biopolitics in the <span class="search-highlight">Cuban</span> Postplantation of Gloria Rolando’s Raíces de mi corazón
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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
...”), 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 dimension to the story that connects the subversion of authority typical of the trickster tale...
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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 (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 (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 (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 155–163.
Published: 01 March 2016
... Press, 1995). 2 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...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 164–174.
Published: 01 March 2016
... 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 “mounts” the body during exceptional performances of drumming, singing, and dance. 21 Through five albums released since...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 67–77.
Published: 01 March 2023
... in their fights against slavery and discrimination. Among these actants, Carbonell includes the gods of the Afro-Cuban religion as powerful entities and a source of knowledge to be recognized in the making of the national culture. 1 Anton de Kom, Wij slaven van Suriname (Amsterdam: Contact, 1934, 1971...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 220–228.
Published: 01 March 2019
... 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 project is titled Visionary Aponte: Art and Black Freedom , a contemporary art exhibit cocurated...
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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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View articletitled, “Todos los negros y todos los blancos y todos tomamos café”: Race and the <span class="search-highlight">Cuban</span> Revolution in Nicolás Guillén Landrián's Coffea arábiga
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 17–32.
Published: 01 March 2017
... at the University of Toronto Scarborough (Centre for Ethnography). My current research project is titled “Ordinary Ethics in a Context of Othering in Haiti.” The subtitle of this article is of course referring to the work of Stephan Palmié, The Cooking of History: How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion (Chicago...
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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...
View articletitled, The Elusive Organization of “Identity”: Race, <span class="search-highlight">Religion</span>, and Empire Among Caribbean Migrants in Cuba
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 91–108.
Published: 01 July 2021
... Yoruba cultures and African-descended religions in Cuba. A number of the poems in Morejón’s collection engaged with themes about Regla de Ocha. The Revolution’s banning of Afro-Cuban religious practices and reclassifying them as folklore or a holdover from a colonial past likely contributed to Morejón’s...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 142–151.
Published: 01 March 2020
... For a fictional rendering of Estevanico, see Leila Lalami, The Moor’s Account (New York: 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...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 123–140.
Published: 01 July 2014
..., 1994), 49. 71 Elizabeth McAlister, “A Sorcerer's Bottle: The Visual Art of Magic in Haiti,” in Cosentino, Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou , 305–21. 72 Stephan Palmié, Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002), 165...
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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 (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 85–98.
Published: 01 July 2018
... (PhD diss., University of Michigan, 2008); Tanya L. Saunders, Cuban Underground Hip Hop: Black Thoughts, Black Revolution, Black Modernity (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015); and Rivera, New York Ricans . 31 Ana-Maurine Lara, “Bodies and Memories: Afro-Latina Identities in Motion...
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