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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 1–15.
Published: 01 October 2007
... Axe Incorporated 2007 From New World to Abeng:
George Beckford and the Horn of
Black Power in Jamaica, 1968–1970
Robert A. Hill
Ab s t r a c t : This essay examines the role played by George Beckford in grappling critically with
the complicated legacy of the plantation...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 93–104.
Published: 01 February 2008
... on Guyana's reception of Black Power. An exposition of the new documents forms the background to a broader discussion of Rodney's subsequent life and work, up to the point of his assassination in 1980. Small Axe Incorporated 2008 Seeing Darkly: Guyana,
Black Power, and Walter Rodney’s
Expulsion from...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 206–217.
Published: 01 November 2020
... to an understanding of black radicalism in Canada, the Caribbean, and the African diaspora, more broadly. This work decenters the United States as the nexus of Black Power, allowing readers to think about Canada as an understudied site of black radical organizing. While the congress viewed Black Nationalism...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 17–41.
Published: 01 July 2010
...Carter Mathes This article examines transnational circulations of Afro-Jamaican and African-American political culture during 1960s and 1970s (roughly encompassing Jamaican independence, the transitions between Black Power and post–Black-Power era United States, and the year of escalating political...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 45–51.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Louis Chude-Sokei The Black Scholar ( TBS ), established in 1969, emerged from a public confluence of black political and cultural movements—black power, black arts, Pan-Africanism and decolonization, black feminism, and the emergence of a black political class. As primary intellectual organ...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 195–205.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Peter James Hudson Held at Montreal’s McGill University from 11 to 14 October 1968, the “Congress of Black Writers: Toward the Second Emancipation—the Dynamics of Black Liberation” was dubbed the largest Black Power conference ever held outside the United States. In Moving Against the System...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 128–141.
Published: 01 October 2008
... moments: Black Power and Black Nationalism at the end of the 1960s and into the '70s; the political monumentalization of Césaire in Martinique between the late 1970s and his ninetieth-birthday celebration in 2003; and the creation of two book series to serve as cultural intermediaries—CARAF Books and New...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 187–198.
Published: 01 July 2016
... politics and society. Obika Gray and Maziki Thame contributed review essays, tackling many of the issues explored in the book, including the Caribbean black power movement, the Grenada Revolution and its demise, the contemporary state of Jamaican politics, Caribbean intellectual traditions...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 206–214.
Published: 01 November 2024
... hold power, but Laveaux and McPayne center Black liberation, the history of slavery, and the ongoing structures and institutions of White supremacy, capitalism, and heteropatriachy, along with two figures who fought against them. While referencing fortune-telling, the tarot-inspired poster foregrounds...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 77–96.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Kim Robinson-Walcott True emancipation from mental slavery is still a work in progress in Jamaica. The People’s National Party swept into power in 1972 with an agenda of socioeconomic and cultural empowerment for the poor black majority. That agenda, however, was executed imperfectly. Considering...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 129–145.
Published: 01 March 2016
... is crucial; without it the ideological fictions of the contemporary world order that consign the vast majority of its population to a subhuman status remain uncontested and grow every generation in weight and power. © Small Axe, Inc. 2016 Sylvia Wynter “Black Metamorphosis” black experience...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 39–56.
Published: 01 July 2009
...” mixture stimulates a preference for whiteness, thus reducing the access to power by those deemed black, it simultaneously fuels a rejection for “pure” forms of whiteness as witnessed in the country's celebration of morenidade (brownness). Not all forms of miscegenation are valued in Brazil's myth...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 112–134.
Published: 01 March 2009
... to become symbols of authority and new governmental power, emboldened
as agents of change in the postcolonial process in the twentieth century, public art had to
seize the black body from its maligned state in the field of representation. Manley’s attempt
to sculpt a bold, heroic...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 83–86.
Published: 01 November 2024
... in the Dutch Caribbean. This special section aligns with the author’s ongoing interest in Black anticolonial intellectual traditions of the Caribbean—in a project called Other Radicals—and the role of figures from the Dutch Caribbean in this project. More than an interest in the question of power...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 164–175.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., and power. [email protected] © Small Axe, Inc. 2024 anti-Blackness bad faith b/Black consciousness liberalism “niggatude” Negritude power I offer thanks to David Scott for organizing this forum to discuss Fear of Black Consciousness . 1 A fellow Jamaican of African...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 172–180.
Published: 01 March 2018
... the case that the power of an audible, creole technopoetics, as best embodied by dub reggae, can remake our very conception of the human. In addition to dub, the author brings minstrelsy, blues, jazz, and the like into his broader discussion of black engagements with sound technologies, arguing...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 135–144.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of White power. Denial and bad faith are not mere features of this psychic life; rather, they are fundamental conditions for its continued refusal to acknowledge the epistemic and ontological dimensions of Black humanity. This discussion essay examines how Gordon allows us to see the blues as a musical...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 55–75.
Published: 01 March 2015
.... However, only one part of her 1968 trilogy about the Isle of Youth, which called attention to the overrepresentation of poor black Cubans in the Isle of Youth's detention centers and reform schools, was shown in limited release. Guerra, Visions of Power , 267–69. 11 Abreu, “Black Power”; de la...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 175–185.
Published: 01 March 2021
...-ownership database project (see 17–18). These materials testify to the power of the state in the expropriation and management of black bodies and in the maintenance of whiteness, but they ultimately fail to yield anything close to a complete picture of black life in Britain or Jamaica: “The materiality...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 92–112.
Published: 01 March 2016
... reveals a particular investment in a specific way of being human and questions what such investments mean for black liberation, gender relations, and power/knowledge. 74 “Fathers Look at Roles,” Daily Nation , 31 October 2001, 23. 75 Zakia Pathak and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, “Shahbano...
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