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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 22–35.
Published: 01 March 2020
... and intellectual contributions of theories of relationality and decolonial feminisms by women of color should be understood as theoretical and methodological tools for approaching some of the most peripheralized Afro-diasporic works. To that end, it examines the histories and the interconnected literary...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 111–119.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Nancy Raquel Mirabal The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is the premier center of African American and Afro-diasporic studies. Yet, as the literary scholar Vanessa Valdés argues, we know little of the center’s namesake and his drive to collect and establish a renowned archive...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 103–118.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Rae Ann Meriwether In this essay, Meriwether argues that Erna Brodber's representation of Vodou, spiritism, and blues music in her novel Louisiana illuminates a shared praxis among Afro-diasporic subjects that forms the basis of their viable political community. Using Houston A. Baker Jr.'s theory...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 85–98.
Published: 01 July 2018
... through whiteness, Eduardo’s diatribes toward Rocío, a Dominican woman, point to his internalization of the violent dehumanization of Afro-diasporic women in a transnational context. As the story develops, we also discover that although his physical traits are closer to the black racial schema than...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 152–154.
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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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 132–141.
Published: 01 July 2019
... engages with more recent scholarship centered on transnational Dominican blackness by and about afro-dominicanas , diasporic subjectivities, and other marginalized bodies that have been whitewashed or remain excluded from nationalist discourses. 4 Striving to expound the intricate polyphony...
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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 (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 1–17.
Published: 01 November 2019
... observer of hitherto undocumented Afro-diasporic rituals at a time when, for white anthropologists, “merely ‘being there’ with a pad and pencil was deemed enough participation.” 5 Both women were considered the protégés of two of the leading white anthropologists of the day—Hurston as Franz Boas’s...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 142–151.
Published: 01 March 2020
... the auxiliary clubs that Mirabal mentions, who wrote the articles for Minerva ? While I do not think of them as “unarchivable,” I do see them as “part of a speculative history of Afro-diasporic female brilliance and achievement,” as Mirabal notes. 15 To be sure, when we are discussing gaps...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 85–93.
Published: 01 July 2015
... and the Dominican Republic as two black siblings united under one father, while in her music video, Indiana visually challenges the homophobic, and masculinist, rendering of Dominican national history by creating a queer, Afro-diasporic version of Dominicanness, having the two men (brothers) come together...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 35–56.
Published: 01 July 2018
... matter of artwork by Afro/Asian diasporic artists Albert Chong, Richard Fung, and Tomie Arai. These artists use a sequence of vernacular photography—family snapshots, passport photos, studio portraiture—to examine the affective ties of diaspora. They interrogate the notion of family and the scripts...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 45–61.
Published: 01 July 2017
... and indigenous populations overlap and compete. Shona Jackson grapples with one such scenario, analyzing how Afro-diasporic peoples reconstituted themselves as indigenous in Guyana through a language of labor and productivity that is also used to justify the dispossession of Amerindian peoples who fail to use...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 180–190.
Published: 01 July 2014
... into question modernity as such. The central concern of my writing has been to theorize how blackness functions as an integral part of modern Western thought and life. That is, instead of imagining Afro-diasporic cultures as disconnected from the heart of modernity's whiteness, I demonstrate how black cultures...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 194–196.
Published: 01 July 2022
... research interests include theorizing AfroLatinidad in the context of race, gender, and sexuality through Afro-diasporic approaches. Her book project is tentatively titled “Cigüapa Unbound: AfroLatina Feminist Epistemologies of Tranceformation.” ...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 208–210.
Published: 01 November 2012
... literary representations of community in Caribbean and Afro-diasporic literature. Nicolas Nabajoth (whose work appears on the cover of this issue) is a Guadeloupean photog- rapher whose work has appeared in a number of exhibitions in France, Canada, Guadeloupe, and Martinique...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 93–99.
Published: 01 July 2022
... that transnational Caribbean Blackness exists and raises questions of migration, surveillance, policing, bodies, class, gender, sexuality, and more. 15 It reminds us that AfroLatinidad is grounded in décalage . Brent Hayes Edwards provides an Afro-diasporic meaning of décalage in his essay “The Uses...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 34–48.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of loss and longing for an unreachable past. This past is Afro-diasporic and Indigenous Taíno. This sentiment resonates in comments on cooking videos celebrating traditional Puerto Rican recipes, reflecting a nostalgic tone with a hint of fear. 2 Maisonet perceives a loss that can be averted only...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 112–119.
Published: 01 March 2005
... Gayle Plummer, and Isaac Julien, one can appreciate the ways in which Th e Practice of Diaspora helps foreground rather than privilege the Afro-francophone world’s interactions with other points on the Afro-diasporic continuum. Methodologically, Edwards emphasizes process rather than fi xed...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 97–127.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., and Cuban mambo bandleader Perez Prado comprised and facilitated the antiphonal poetics, or the call-and-response, of the black modern diasporic sound that became reggae music. To illuminate the heterogeneous contours of this Afro-Asian island sound shop infrastructure, I center four sounds—Tom...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 50–68.
Published: 01 July 2021
... disparaging of Afro-diasporic inquiry as irrelevant clearly anchors the documentary to the racial disparity of the special period. To alleviate the economic depression of the early 1990s, Cuba turned to tourism and regressed to its prerevolution segregatory practices. Most important, the legalization...
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