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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 132–141.
Published: 01 July 2019
... of refusal embedded in the book cover. In attending to the gendered dimensions of nation building, Colonial Phantoms is an essential intervention in Afro-diasporic and Afro-Latina feminisms that acknowledges the complexities of black women’s subjectivities in the Dominican Republic and its diaspora...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 85–98.
Published: 01 July 2018
... the growing field of Afro-Latinx feminism. It highlights issues that are central to current and revisionist discussions of Latina and Dominican gender, ethno-racial, and cultural identity. Beyond depicting the more visible aspects of hip-hop—the stars, the graffiti, and, to some extent...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 22–35.
Published: 01 March 2020
... imaginaries that exist across the Afro-Latinx Caribbean (Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic), Equatorial Guinea (the only Spanish-speaking nation-state in Sub-Saharan Africa), and their diasporic cultural productions in the United States and Spain. The essay ultimately argues that women of color...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 182–189.
Published: 01 July 2021
... Press, 2020). 5 M. Jacqui Alexander, Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006); Paget Henry, Caliban’s Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy (New York: Routledge, 2000); Silvio Torres-Saillant...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 152–163.
Published: 01 July 2019
... thoughtful response puts Colonial Phantoms squarely within “Afro-diasporic and Afro-Latina feminisms that acknowledg[e] the complexities of black women’s subjectivities in the Dominican Republic and its diaspora in the United States and Europe.” 30 This was one of the several conversations I meant...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 126–140.
Published: 01 March 2017
... predominate in modern-day Dominican society. 14 Liberation from modes of oppression is at the core of their projects and runs parallel to the work of Afro-Dominican lesbian feminists Ochy Curiel (1963–) and Yuderkys Espinosa (1965–). The representations of women and their bodies in Ramírez's...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 128–143.
Published: 01 July 2018
... such as in the arts, in Afro-Caribbean religious ritual, in alternatively configured communities that exist away from cities. In 2010, I attended an Easter week festival de los palos in the South. Hundreds of Dominicans observed the Afro-Dominican tradition at the home of a local florist, who was unapologetic...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 1–23.
Published: 01 November 2021
... about the coloniality of gender. Borderlands and their generative languages also serve as critical tools for analysis here. As a US-born Afro-Dominican artist who trained at the National School of Fine Arts in Santo Domingo and walked daily past the Columbus statue, Minaya is very attuned...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 206–209.
Published: 01 November 2016
... in the Hispanic Caribbean and the United States. She is currently working on a history of Dominican feminist thought and activism, tentatively titled “Voices Echoing beyond the Seas: Dominican Feminisms, from Transatlantic to Transnational, 1882–1942.” K amau B rathwaite , a distinguished poet and a friend...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 160–165.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Khalila Chaar-Pérez In sharing the original French version as well as Spanish and (first-ever) English translations of “Speech at the Masonic Lodge of Port-au-Prince” (ca. 1870–71), the author argues for the importance of the work of Afro–Puerto Rican activist Ramón Emeterio Betances in the history...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 199–205.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., in both Ramírez's and Decena's case they turn to the experiences of Afro-Dominican women to spell out challenges to Dominican racial, gender, and sexual norms, as well as to certain US narratives of emancipation, modernization, and progress. Thereby they both gesture to the importance of broadening...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 100–112.
Published: 01 November 2016
... of limiting emigration since the 1959 revolution means that the vast majority of Cubans reside in Cuba, while the 2010 census counts more Puerto Ricans living outside of Puerto Rico than in. 8 A recent collaborative film project documents the “ cimarrón spirit” of Afro-Dominican cultural practices...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 7–21.
Published: 01 March 2014
... of their islands of origin, circa 1930 (see fig. 1 ). Who were they, and where were they? Most numerous by far were the 78,000 Haitians in Cuba (almost certainly an undercount). Another 53,000 Haitians were tallied in the Dominican Republic. A similar 54,000 British West Indians resided in New York City alone...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 194–196.
Published: 01 November 2019
... on a book that explores the influence of Haitian Vodou on black American feminism. Moving from the interwar ethnographies of Zora Neale Hurston and Katherine Dunham to the resurgence of Vodou imagery in texts by Audre Lorde and Lucille Clifton, this work argues that Afro-Caribbean spirituality has taught...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 205–208.
Published: 01 September 2005
..., and cultures of the Hispanic Caribbean (Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic). She has small published work in the area of Afro-Hispanic literature and is currently working on a axe book that focuses on comparative analyses of thematic areas of unity in contemporary Afro...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 175–186.
Published: 01 July 2020
...” and its particular effects on Caribbean nations, racialized populations, and black laborers. 19 In doing so, Bankers and Empire does much to return imperialism and white supremacy to the center of our studies of global capitalism. The discourse of Afro-pessimism argues that the paradigmatic...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 92–112.
Published: 01 March 2016
... of men and masculinity, the academic focus on (largely Afro-Caribbean) men that emerged in the late 1980s has other points of departure, including, especially, a response to feminism. Caribbean writing on masculinity since the 1990s has focused on exposing the vulnerability of boys and men in diverse...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 120–131.
Published: 01 March 2020
...: Dominicans Negotiating Race and Belonging,” The Black Scholar 45, no. 2 (2015): 10–20; Monika Gosin, The Racial Politics of Division: Interethnic Struggles for Legitimacy in Multicultural Miami (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019); Frank Andre Guridy, Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 189–198.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., Dictator's Seduction , 174. 6 Ibid., 135. 5 Silvio Torres-Saillant, “The Tribulations of Blackness: Stages in Dominican Racial Identity,” Latin American Perspectives 25, no. 3 (1998): 135. 4 Raj Chetty, “‘La calle es libre’: Race, Recognition, and Dominican Theater,” Afro-Hispanic...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 142–151.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores In Colonial Phantoms: Belonging and Refusal in the Dominican Americas, from the 19th Century to the Present (2018), Dixa Ramírez astutely and compellingly displays the opacity of the Dominican Republic’s history in the context of the Americas. She complicates trite...