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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 132–141.
Published: 01 March 2020
... and his complex personality, as well as his relentless but gentle commitment to advancing black liberation. Following Saidiya Hartman’s strategy of “critical fabulation” to highlight previously silenced Afro-Epistemes, the author dwells on Schomburg’s childhood, life commitment, and legacies. Part...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 152–163.
Published: 01 July 2019
... in the Dominican Americas from the nineteenth century to the present day, I ask: How have Afro-descended, nonwhite subjects shaped themselves, their cultures, their families, and their thoughts under a white supremacist episteme? And, crucially, how have they refused to shape themselves? Colonial Phantoms...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 158–168.
Published: 01 March 2002
... previously charted: that of Afro-Caribbean philosophy. PHis central thesis is the confi rmation of the existence of an Afro-Caribbean philoso- phy, albeit a minor tradition, operating in the interstices of the more dominant forms of Caribbean intellectual production. He divides Afro-Caribbean philosophy...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 116–126.
Published: 01 November 2021
...—that of the nation-state. In an essay appearing in a 1996 Callaloo special section titled “Rethinking Black (Cultural) Studies,” Wahneema Lubiano turned to St. Clair Drake: [Drake] later described the contestation, national and global, that inheres in Afro-American Studies as a dynamic that focuses...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 179–190.
Published: 01 March 2002
...Paget Henry Small Axe Incorporated 2002 Culture, Politics and Writing in Afro- Caribbean Philosophy: A Reply to Critics Paget Henry must begin by thanking Brian Meeks, Maureen Warner-Lewis, Patrick Goodin, and Claudette Anderson for taking the time to put down so clearly...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 181–190.
Published: 01 March 2022
... that underpinned plantation slavery. More recent debates, rooted primarily in an Afro-pessimist tradition, are seeking to extend this theorization by seeing anti-Blackness as both a precondition and a necessary element of global capitalism. In this regard, it is impossible to separate modern forms of capitalism...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 201–218.
Published: 01 July 2024
... dimensions of Puerto Rican colonialism can be framed in terms of what I call the “double coloniality” of Afro–Puerto Rican subjects, who are racialized as colonial subjects by US imperial discourse and as Black subjects within Western racial orders, including Puerto Rican White racism. The racialization...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 179–189.
Published: 01 July 2024
... witnessed this kind of enclosure during Bad Bunny’s performance at the Sixty-Fifth Annual Grammy Awards in 2023. 6 “Ethnonationalism feels so good.” These are the words I mouthed to my friends as we finished dancing, singing, throwing up signs to the (Afro–)Puerto Rican poetics being sung on the main...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 127–133.
Published: 01 November 2021
... contrasts the socioeconomic precarity of the Afro-Bajan Creighton Village (imaged in the flimsy and vulnerable chattel houses subject to seasonal destruction by floods) with the imposing brick house of the white landowner, Mr. Creighton. Wynter’s essay, with its unequivocal alignment with the “plot...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 57–76.
Published: 01 February 2008
... that after 1940, many male and some female writers “minimized the social and intellectual contributions” of West Indian women.12 Sylvia Wynter was the only Anglophone Afro-Caribbean woman novelist to appropriate the epic narrative of the nation. In the Introduction to Out...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 232–234.
Published: 01 July 2024
... is an Afro-descendant intellectual-activist of Puerto Rican origin and a professor of sociology and Afro-American studies at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. He has published several books and articles on topics such as globalization, social movements, urban studies, racism, Caribbean...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 120–131.
Published: 01 March 2020
... today continue to face. Representing Afro-Latinidad as a social identity with talismanic powers would neglect to comprehend the depths to which the modern colonial episteme has rendered blackness to be antithetical to the modern human that is entitled to ethical protections and rights. By the same token...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 50–68.
Published: 01 July 2021
... of the black Cuban Partido Independiente de Color (the Independent Party of Color) and thousands of other Afro-Cubans through the plane of the intimate. The author argues that Rolando’s film challenges the myth of racial equality throughout Cuba’s modern history by celebrating Afro-Cuban traditions, from...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 92–112.
Published: 01 March 2016
... transmitted by women and girls only. That women as teachers, mothers, and students have been blamed for the underachievement of Afro-Caribbean boys is well documented. 80 What a closer analysis of this text reveals is that the much-maligned “bashment schoolgirl” is conflated with the “career woman...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 219–231.
Published: 01 July 2024
... “exhausted . . . nationalism” sheds greater light on what was always there, then—a racial hierarchy reinstalled by the autonomous subject of right (ELA) or the revolutionary subject of some nationalist projects. It does so in complicated ways, however, given a context in which the affirmation of Boricua Afro...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 51–62.
Published: 01 July 2024
... and linguistic orthodoxies, conventions, and hierarchies. There is a revealing moment in the introductory chapter of Noises , where she cites Bob Marley’s lyrics in “Bad Card” as a potent example of a “politics of noise” that informs marginalized Afro-Jamaican vernacular languages and cultural discourses. 4...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 164–175.
Published: 01 March 2024
... would like the reader to consider this. I have never been satisfied with the softened translation of the Afro-francophone term négritude . The point overlooked is that the concept was developed as a response to the White-imposed derogation nègre , which has no equivalent in the English language...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 219–231.
Published: 01 July 2018
... to tell. Becoming “fluent in each other’s histories” and finding ourselves unexpectedly in them. Seeking out “alternate possibilities to both Indo-Afro racial antagonism and to postcolonial, patriarchal heteronormative nationalism.” 45 In the face of colonial, now contemporary violence...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 173–179.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Tavia Nyong'o This essay reviews two recent publications in the area of black music and sound studies—Julian Henriques's Sonic Bodies: Reggae Sound Systems, Performance Techniques, and Ways of Knowing (2011) and Alexander G. Weheliye's Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity (2005)—taking...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 142–151.
Published: 01 March 2020
... 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); and Aisha Finch, Rethinking Slave...