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Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, the Quintessential Maroon: Toward an African Diasporic Epistemology

Evelyne Laurent-Perrault
Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 132–141.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8190674
Published: 01 March 2020
...Evelyne Laurent-Perrault This essay engages Vanessa K. Valdés’s Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg . It traces Valdés’s main contributions and notes that her work invites readers to expand their views of Schomburg’s Afro-Caribbean/Latinx/Latin American identity...
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The Dual Biopolitics in the Cuban Postplantation of Gloria Rolando’s Raíces de mi corazón

Sarah Margarita Quesada
Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 50–68.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9384212
Published: 01 July 2021
... orisha rituals to patakíes (Afro-Cuban oral tradition), over a reappropriated plantational space in which black sensuality contests negative biopolitical forms. Rolando not only draws from transnational critical race theory to address the myth of Latin American exceptionalism, she also challenges Michel...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 197–200.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9384416
Published: 01 July 2021
... Studies (2020), and has appeared in Latino Studies , the Afro-Hispanic Review , and the Journal of Haitian Studies , among others. She is a former cochair representative for Latino studies in the Latin American Studies Association. D evyn S pence B enson is an associate professor of history...
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The Afterlives of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

Vanessa K. Valdés
Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 142–151.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8190686
Published: 01 March 2020
... the dehumanization of those Africans and their descendants. As scholars of Afro–Latin American studies within the larger discipline of American studies, Laurent-Perrault and I are both engaged in this work, recovering erased histories and attendant epistemologies and ontologies from a geographical region whose...
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“If I Were You”: Tego Calderón’s Diasporic Interventions

Petra R. Rivera-Rideau
Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 55–69.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4378924
Published: 01 March 2018
... diaspora in this way offers opportunities to integrate previously neglected sites, histories, and cultural practices into theorizing blackness and diaspora. And yet Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, along with many other Afro–Latin American and Afro-Latino populations, have often been left out...
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Black Caribs / Garifuna: Maroon Geographies of Indigenous Blackness

Paul Joseph López Oro
Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 134–146.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9583488
Published: 01 November 2021
..., “Ramos, Tomas Vicente,” in Franklin W. Knight and Henry Louis Gates Jr., eds., Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro–Latin American Biography (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016), 251–53. 25 Blackness is a direct threat to the project of whitening in the mestizo nation-state and needs...
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One and Divisible: Meditations on Global Blackness

Silvio Torres-Saillant
Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 4–25.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3697226
Published: 01 July 2009
..., the present, and the future of the US Hispanic population, I have often been among the very few Afro-Latinos to address the august lecture hall. At any rate, the incident shows that the rule of homogeneity may operate with equal rigidity among people of Latin American origin and African Americans when...
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Borderlands and Border Crossers: Migrants and Boundaries in the Greater Caribbean, 1840–1940

Lara Putnam
Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 7–21.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2642728
Published: 01 March 2014
...),” American Communist History 4, no. 1 (2005): 85–93; Lara Putnam, “Kenneth Bancroft Clark,” in Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Franklin W. Knight, eds., Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro–Latin American Biography (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming); Richards, Maida Springer , 35; Watkins-Owens...
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Transnational Renderings of Negro / a / x /*: Re-centering Blackness in AfroLatinidad

Omaris Z. Zamora
Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 93–99.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9901654
Published: 01 July 2022
...-Latinxs (and evidently White non-Latinxs too) at the expense of Black, Afro- and Indigenous Latinxs.” 8 This is to say, we can think of White Latinidad transnationally as well as negro . While mestizos and White Latin Americans get translated into “Latinidad,” negro is translated into “AfroLatinidad...
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Reconstructing Dominican Latinidad : Intersections between Gender, Race, and Hip-Hop

Sharina Maillo-Pozo
Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 85–98.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-6985783
Published: 01 July 2018
... in the black American, Caribbean, and Latin American migrant/immigrant communities of inner-city New York. In Women Warriors of the Afro-Latino Diaspora Ana-Maurine Lara asserts that it was through the questioning of her Latina identity that she “ended up landing in the space of Afro-Latinidad on a whole new...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 152–154.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8190698
Published: 01 March 2020
... and African American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. Her research interests center on Latin American, Caribbean, and Luso-Brazilian literatures and cultures; the relationships between literary, ethnographic, and sociological discourses in Latin America; Afro-diasporic literatures and cultures...
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Albums of Inclusion: The Photographic Poetics of Caribbean Chinese Visual Kinship

Tao Leigh Goffe
Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 35–56.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-6985666
Published: 01 July 2018
... the table. Yet often, at least in Hakka culture, men were responsible for the cooking. The centers of the tables feature silk screened wedding photos and family snapshots collected from Caribbean/Latin American participants of Chinese and Afro-Chinese origin. Figure 6 Tomie Arai, Double Happiness...
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Schomburg’s Blackness of a Different Matter: A Historiography of Refusal

José I. Fusté
Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 120–131.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8190662
Published: 01 March 2020
... Hoffnung-Garskof, “The World of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg,” in Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores, eds., The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010), 70–91; Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary...
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Guyana, Cuba, Venezuela and the “Routes” to Cultural Reconciliation between Latin America and the Caribbean

Shona N. Jackson
Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 28–58.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-1-28
Published: 01 February 2006
... between the two is not language or culture but race.¹ Any substantive crossing of this border will not simply happen by migration for work, increased trade between Latin American and the Caribbean, or the growing black population in Latin American countries, as the examples of the discrimination faced...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 194–196.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9901766
Published: 01 July 2022
... ideau is associate professor of American studies at Wellesley College. She is author of Remixing Reggaetón: The Cultural Politics of Race in Puerto Rico (2015) and coeditor, with Jennifer A. Jones and Tianna S. Paschel, of Afro-Latin@s in Movement: Critical Approaches to Blackness...
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Resisting Colonial Ghosts: Scripting Blackness in the Dominican Republic’s Past and Present

Sharina Maillo-Pozo
Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 132–141.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7703368
Published: 01 July 2019
... and Latin American regions. It situates Dominican history and cultural production within Caribbean and Latin American studies by establishing logical contextual connections and parallels with other countries in the region. Finally, Ramírez intervenes in the fields of US Latinx and African diaspora studies...
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A Case for Relation: Mapping Afro-Latinx Caribbean and Equatoguinean Poetics

Yomaira C. Figueroa
Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 22–35.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8190526
Published: 01 March 2020
.... This is especially true when thinking through the contemporary material, symbolic, and ideological effects of the colonial difference within anglophone (African American) and hispanophone (Afro-Latinx) diasporic populations in the global north. 37 Finally, Equatorial Guinea has had little place in the academy...
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Redefining Mestizaje : How Trans-Caribbean Exchanges Solidified Black Consciousness in Cuba

Devyn Spence Benson
Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 91–108.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9384286
Published: 01 July 2021
... of their work might have caused them to be left out. 34 Undeterred, Pérez Sarduy, Gómez, González, and others from the group prepared and gave a presentation titled “Cultural Contributions of the Negro in America” during a pre-congress symposium on Afro-American studies. 35 And while the full document has...
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“Todos los negros y todos los blancos y todos tomamos café”: Race and the Cuban Revolution in Nicolás Guillén Landrián's Coffea arábiga

Anne Garland Mahler
Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 55–75.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2873341
Published: 01 March 2015
... the Organization of Solidarity with the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This alliance, which formed when Cuba requested to join the Afro-Asian alliance that originated at the 1955 Bandung Conference, would explicitly include African American activists. 27 In the materials published leading up...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 194–196.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7912504
Published: 01 November 2019
... discursive and cultural transactions among Latin American, Caribbean, and Latin@ communities around the globe. Her reviews, articles, and translations have appeared in The Black Scholar, Callaloo, Antípodas, Cua.dri.vi.um, Discourse, and Cuadernos del CILHA (Centro de Estudios Interdisciplinarios de...
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