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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 (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 85–98.
Published: 01 July 2018
... , the memoir lays the foundation for future inquires related to Afro-Latinx identities as portrayed in contemporary fiction and nonfiction narratives by Dominican women authors in the United States. This study prompts further questioning into how the interchange between island and diaspora discourses influence...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 120–131.
Published: 01 March 2020
...José I. Fusté This essay uses Vanessa Valdés’s Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (2017) to reflect on the different stakes surrounding debates about Schomburg as a historical figure and also as a heuristic for grasping the complex vicissitudes of Afro-Latinx life...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 152–154.
Published: 01 March 2020
... titled Entangled Crossings: Afro-Latinx Migrations Between Race and Empire. This work reveals some of the complex intersections, transnational relations, and interruptions of Afro-Latinx antiracist and anti-imperialist politics between the United States and the hispanophone Caribbean. shawn C. Gonzalez...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 132–141.
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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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 197–200.
Published: 01 July 2021
... the Second World War. A isha Z. C ort is a lecturer of Spanish at Howard University. She earned her BA in Spanish from Yale University and her MA and PhD in Spanish literature from Emory University. Her research interrogates Afro-Latinx and Latinx film, literature, and cultural production. She...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 132–141.
Published: 01 July 2019
...). The book offers a sagacious and fascinating perspective to scholarship on Dominican studies as well as on Caribbean studies, Afro-diasporic studies, Latinx studies, and American studies. Its intriguing approach to the ways Western imaginaries have impacted (trans)national discourses of Dominican identity...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 220–223.
Published: 01 November 2021
..., and articulate their multiple subjectivities as Black, Indigenous, and Afro-Latinx. J ennifer B aez received her PhD in art history from Florida State University and specializes in the art and visual culture of colonial Latin America and the African diaspora. She teaches courses at FSU on the history...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 142–151.
Published: 01 March 2020
...–Latin American and Afro-Latinx studies, we are seeing a boom in scholarship that explores blackness in all its intricacies: as lived experience, as trope, as ontological frame, as episteme. We are naming blackness and whiteness rather than using the euphemism of “race,” and in so doing we are being...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 163–175.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of the tension between academic and theoretical discourses of Afro-Latinidad of Latinx Brownness the fact that many Latinx scholars who theorize Brownness are non-Black to be crucial. Indeed, I would argue that this dimension of their critical engagement implicitly enacts the very disagreement that they describe...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 154–162.
Published: 01 July 2022
... position as the face of a genre created by Afro-Latinx communities. 17 Like Guilbault, some of these critiques call attention to the ongoing forms of structural inequality that pervade the culture industries, and thus complicate sensorial solidarity. They underscore the persistent unequal power dynamics...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 93–99.
Published: 01 July 2022
... Dinzey-Flores remind us, “When White-Euro-American non Latina women ‘pass’ as Latinas, they are capitalizing on existing Latinx white supremacy, which confers access and privileges to White-Latinxs (and evidently White non-Latinxs too) at the expense of Black, Afro- and Indigenous Latinxs.” 8...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 193–200.
Published: 01 July 2017
... to people dying for being out with friends or quickly subsumed by speculation about the shooter's potential connections to ISIS and by demands for gun control legislation. Often lost were those dead, who were predominantly Latinx, black, and Afro-Latinx LGBTQ people. Even less noted was the stunning fact...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 176–193.
Published: 01 July 2022
... in the market-driven encounter with the history of their structural anti-Blackness, and many of whose adherents seem to believe such history will be amended by quickly renaming this or that “Afro-Latinx,” or by including that signifier in a list on a grant application otherwise written by a White Latina scholar...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 194–196.
Published: 01 July 2022
... © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc. 2022 A rnaldo M. C ruz -M alavé is professor at and associate director of the Institute of Latin American and Latinx Studies at Fordham University. He is the author of Queer Latino Testimonio, Keith Haring, and Juanito Xtravaganza: Hard Tails (2007); editor...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 194–196.
Published: 01 November 2019
... Scholar (2015), and his work has appeared in Callaloo, Palimpsest, and Afro-Hispanic Review. SHANYA CORDIS, who is black/Warau and Lokono, is an assistant professor of sociocultural anthropology at Spelman College. She works at the intersections of indigenous and black stud- ies, examining black...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 164–166.
Published: 01 July 2019
... Out: Gated Communities in a Puerto Rican City . Her current projects examine the racial aesthetics and architecture of the real estate market, the global circuits of planning ideas, the landscapes produced by Caribbean engineers, Afro-Latina/o/x experience, and mobile segregation. J oan F lores...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 36–49.
Published: 01 July 2021
... about her musical magnetism, she positioned herself not only as a musical foundation for Maelo but additionally as a potential member of a “feminist genealogy” of Afro-Latinx and Afro-Caribbean music. 15 This genealogy of women singers was first mapped by Frances Aparicio in her studies of Celia Cruz...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 35–56.
Published: 01 July 2018
.... They place the photographs in a carefully narrated context of global circulation as works of art. Aware that this is an obscured history, each artist is careful to narrate the specifics of individual Caribbean Chinese and Chino Latinx families so as to counter public fantasies about who the subjects might...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 83–90.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Antonio López; Antonio López This essay introduces a special section on the Afro-Cuban poet and intellectual Nancy Morejón’s 1982 book Nación y mestizaje en Nicolás Guillén ( Nation and Mestizaje in Nicolás Guillén ). It sets up the contributors by surveying the literary and political trajectory...
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