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Journal Article
Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 147–158.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Roland Rose In Transition:
The Bahamas
at Mid-Century
Roland Rose
small axe 55 • March 2018 • DOI 10.1215/07990537-4379020 © Roland Rose
148 [ Roland Rose ] In Transition: The Bahamas at Mid-Century
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Journal Article
Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 52–63.
Published: 01 November 2014
... Republic and vendors traveling between Haiti, Curacao, Panama, and the Bahamas, as well as return migrants and others. The author posits that the insistence that all multiligual Haitians belong to the same socioeconomic category depends on the image of the authentic Haitian as poor, illiterate...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 67–77.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Ryan Cecil Jobson This essay serves as an introduction to the special section “States of Crisis.” Principally a meditation on political and ecological crisis in the Caribbean, this introduction revisits two concurrent events—the devastation of The Bahamas by Hurricane Dorian, and the arrival...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 119–137.
Published: 01 June 2007
... the artworks featured in the exhibition, many of which were
abstract or conceptual works of art. From the opening night of the exhibition, eyebrows of
1. The National Exhibition (NE) is a biennial juried exhibition that takes place at the National Art Gallery of The
Bahamas (NAGB). The exhibition...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 105–110.
Published: 01 October 2006
... on.
In the Bahamian flag, the black triangle represents the black people of the Bahamas moving
forward, the yellow stripe represents the sun, and the blue represents the sea.
In this new version of the Bahamian flag, the black triangle is represented by black crabs
indicating the artist’s views of a great...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 191–193.
Published: 01 March 2018
... and arrived in The Bahamas in 1946, when his English father obtained a job as a garden and property manager for one of the original residents of Hog Island, now Paradise Island. At the age of twelve he traded a harmonica for his first camera and not long after purchased his first Kodak Retinette. In the 1950s...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 157–168.
Published: 01 February 2008
... of selected paintings, photographs, and picture post-
cards of Jamaica and the Bahamas, Thompson focuses on representations of the aquatic realm
(mostly in the Bahamas) and on the radical, Rosa Parks-like act of desegregating a Kingston,
Jamaica hotel pool by the local black journalist and activist Evon...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 194–196.
Published: 01 March 2016
... of Kent. Previously she studied art at the College of the Bahamas, while working as the curator of the D'Aguilar Art Foundation and a curatorial team member at the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas. Within her practice, there is constant exploration and critique of contemporary reality: the subconscious...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 149–159.
Published: 01 June 2008
... of Ayiti, Haiti), the location where one has arrived—Dakar, Paris, PointePitre,
Santo Domingo, the Bahamas, Miami, Boston, New York, or Montréal—deeply informs and
structures one’s political locations within the homeland and within the country of adoption
(société d’adoption). After...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 187–196.
Published: 01 July 2020
... States. The smugglers were multinational, with Canadians, Americans, and British subjects from The Bahamas prominently represented. 1 The voyage of the Frederick Douglass is generally appreciated as part of the greater history of the African diaspora and especially that of Black Nationalism...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 118–129.
Published: 01 October 2007
... of Decolonization: An Anatomy of Feminist and State Practice in the Bahamas Tourist Economy” in M. Jacqui
Alexander, Chandra Talpade Mohanty (eds) Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures (New York
and London: Routledge, 1997), 63–100; “Not Just (Any) Body Can Be a Citizen: The Politics...
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in Anacaona Writes Back: The Columbus Statue in Santo Domingo as a Site of Erasure
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2021
Figure 10 Joiri Minaya, proposal for the artistic intervention on the Columbus statue in front of the Government House in Nassau, The Bahamas, 2017. Courtesy of the artist
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Journal Article
Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 169–170.
Published: 01 July 2021
... reject the colonist’s logic that jumps to relegate certain islands to extinction and depopulation, that is, those who ask, Why should we rebuild there ?—as they did in the Ninth Ward in New Orleans, or rural Puerto Rico, or Barbuda, and as they are doing now in The Bahamas—even as they eye these very...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 34–42.
Published: 01 March 2017
... contemporary practices. While we work toward that perfect moment, recent events in the Caribbean, such as the defeat of the gender-equality referendum in The Bahamas, map a reality that suggests that in at least one aspect of the transnational feminist movement, gender equality and social justice remain...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 169–181.
Published: 01 February 2008
... to understanding what intentionally fell beyond its scope. In
An Eye for the Tropics I set out to historicize how, since the late nineteenth century, tourism
promoters in Jamaica and the Bahamas endeavored to create an ideal of the islands as tropical
paradises, an image...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 205–207.
Published: 01 October 2006
... of The Bahamas and the Rhode
Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence, Rhode Island. After working commercially in
The Bahamas as an advertising and art director for a number of years, she now owns a design
and illustration firm in Nassau with her husband, artist Jolyon Smith. She is the recipient...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 151–162.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., and paper; 72 × 24 × 560 in. Photograph by James Lennon, Tampa, Florida © Kendra Frorup Figure 9. Kendra Frorup, Butcher Block , 2007. Bronze, steel, cotton, and wood; 40 × 30 × 30 in. Collection of the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas Figure 9. Kendra Frorup, Butcher Block, 2007. Bronze...
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Journal Article
Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 16–33.
Published: 01 October 2007
... the Bahamas is
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and renegotiating international trade agreements, and are increasingly forming supranational
partnerships, alliances, and market integration.9 In some cases, the rollback of the state and
its...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 125–132.
Published: 01 June 2008
..., as Queen Victoria’s second son, HRH Prince Alfred, was aboard—the
first royal visitor to the Bahamas. Only a week’s advance notice had been given of his arrival;
nonetheless, the adolescent midshipman came ashore at eleven o’clock the following morn-
ing amid gun salutes, the cheers of an adoring...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 228–230.
Published: 01 March 2010
... recently, Livestock, Sugar, and Slavery: Contested Terrain in Colonial
Jamaica (2009).
Obediah Michael Smith is a poet living and working in The Bahamas. He is the author of twelve
books of poems, including Christmas Lights (2003), Poems to Sit On to Shell Peas (2003...
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