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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
..., the faster we can figure out how to sprout out of the rotting episteme created by Man. 3 Plants can and do grow from rot. The cop would not hesitate. What are the usual responses to foreign Afro-descended subjects, or mixed-raced subjects born in the United States, when these subjects insist...
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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
... invention. In the essay Lubiano offers a skilled and nuanced reading of the convergences between Afro-American studies / Black studies and cultural studies. And her reading continually reaches beyond the national with a focus on White epistemic hegemony and its violent logics. But what is silent...
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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 (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 127–133.
Published: 01 November 2021
... divide between plantation and plot in her influential 1971 essay “Novel and History: Plot and Plantation.” 13 Lamming’s book graphically contrasts the socioeconomic precarity of the Afro-Bajan Creighton Village (imaged in the flimsy and vulnerable chattel houses subject to seasonal destruction...
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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 (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 (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
... of heterosexual masculinity but, as Rinaldo Walcott argues in a different context, “a heterosexual black masculinity is assumed and always found wanting.” 26 Thus Walcott's analysis brings together the assumed heterosexuality of (Afro-)Caribbean masculinity, the normalization of heterosexuality...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 219–231.
Published: 01 July 2018
... Press, 1981); and Lowe, Intimacies of Four Continents , 35–36. On Afro-Asian solidarities in a transnational context, see Vijay Prashad, Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity (Boston: New Beacon, 2002). 43 See Shammane Joseph, “The Liberated...
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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
...–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 (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 193–202.
Published: 01 November 2013
... of the living in contemporary Afro-Cuban possession rituals, not just to tell the stories of their lives and deaths under Cuban slavery but to visibly display the symptoms of their past suffering and abuse, staggering about on limbs deformed and broken by the punishment and torture they endured when still alive...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): vii–x.
Published: 01 July 2009
...,
of course, he has been much interested in the relation between memory and historical imagi-
nation in the African Americas, widely conceived. Recall in his seminal book First-Time: The
Historical Vision of an Afro-American People the vivid formulation of the problem of the past in
the present...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 22–35.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Yomaira C. Figueroa This essay contends that Caribbean conceptualizations of relation, understood through the theorizing and political organizing of women of color feminists, offer decolonial possibilities that enable radical remappings of the Afro-Atlantic. The essay argues that the political...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 62–78.
Published: 01 March 2016
... these boundaries, either conceptually or geographically. It spans across all of the Americas, Afro–North America not excluded. It ranges in and out of mountain-based “reservations” of ex-slave black guerrilla warriors metamorphosing Africa in new terrain and in new domains. Marooning itself, “Black Metamorphosis...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 147–162.
Published: 01 November 2016
... that transpires in Hispanic Caribbean New York. Lourdes Casal, the Afro-Cuban poet in New York, social psychologist, and indefatigable force behind the journal Areíto , in which de la Campa published this interview with Márquez, concurs that the bilingual expression that emerged in the 1970s in New...
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Small Axe (2001) 5 (2): 21–40.
Published: 01 September 2001
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society that was the basic source of the agitation between East Indians and mainly Afro-
Guianese, the growing competition was essentially a progressive development. More-
over, the same communities lived harmoniously in the rural areas of the country, which
28 Frank Furedi...
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