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Forging Relational Difference: Racial Gendered Violence and Dispossession in Guyana
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 18–33.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., it ultimately calls for an expansive Caribbean feminist politics that reckons with indigenous political subjectivities and creates awareness of black belonging beyond statist framings toward mutual liberation. 51 Logan Hennessey, “Re-placing Indigenous Territory: Villagization and the Transformation...
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Black Women and Their Discontents in the French Context
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 143–153.
Published: 01 March 2023
... proposes the concept “decolonial citizenship” as a framework to tackle the archival and scholarly invisibility of Black women’s contributions to decolonial movements and their espousing new ways of belonging that are grounded in practices, geographies, epistemologies, and communities that persist despite...
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What Did the Ghosts Whisper? The Fact of Blackness in Dixa Ramírez’s Colonial Phantoms
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 142–151.
Published: 01 July 2019
... the ghosts whisper about the racialized structures that distinctly shape the experience of black (not nonwhite) subjects. Copyright © 2019 Small Axe, Inc. 2019 race Frantz Fanon Dominican Republic racial epistemology fact of blackness Dixa Ramírez’s Colonial Phantoms: Belonging and Refusal...
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Labrish and Mooncakes: The Meeting of Vernaculars in the Work of Easton Lee
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 149–160.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Tzarina T. Prater This essay contributes to ongoing debates about cultural and national identity and belonging in Jamaica by taking up the primary trope of the “shop” as the sole site of black and Chinese interaction. Through analyzing the fiction and poetry of Easton Lee, the essay considers how...
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Suzanne and Suzanne: An Experiment in Reimagining Liberation
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 131–142.
Published: 01 March 2023
... (and overdetermining) frame of belonging by historically repositioning Black women as “political protagonists’’ (17). She argues that as protagonists Black women demanded representation, named inequalities, and refashioned their relationship to the French Empire by infusing their experiences, labor, and thought...
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What Lies Here, Beyond Boundary?
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 76–82.
Published: 01 March 2024
...” rather than on property. The second insight holds essentialism to account for the tropes through which Black nation-states are read. From this she asks, might it be that an enforcer who does not enforce is anticolonial, leveraging chinks in the plantation logic of the law? [email protected]...
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The Precarity of Intramural Theorizing
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 179–189.
Published: 01 July 2024
... belonging. [email protected] Zambrana Rocío , Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico ; Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2021 ; 280 pages; ISBN 978-1478011835 (paperback) © 2024 by Small Axe, Inc. 2024 plantation complex coloniality anti-Blackness ethnonationalism Puerto...
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The Boundary of Light: Buried Beings and Black Sacred Geographies
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 39–56.
Published: 01 March 2024
... vision and light. She contemplates what we cannot see in these images: buried entities that formed a network of power known to enslaved people, engaging Katherine McKittrick’s theory of Black geographies. Through these entities, people of African descent established blood ties with the earth of Jamaica...
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Schomburg’s Blackness of a Different Matter: A Historiography of Refusal
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 120–131.
Published: 01 March 2020
... as either a generic black diasporic nationless subject or first and foremost a Boricua and a Latinx, the last twenty years have given us another layer of interpretative work that examines Schomburg between and beyond this polarity. Diasporic Blackness belongs to this category. It is the first book-length...
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Guyana, Cuba, Venezuela and the “Routes” to Cultural Reconciliation between Latin America and the Caribbean
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 28–58.
Published: 01 February 2006
..., which then legitimates black belonging. Appropriating this Amerindian myth of origin serves a greater function than even the myth of El Dorado. While the El Dorado myth provides for blacks a legacy of belonging and inheritance, the legitimacy orf which could not strictly be solidi ed in Pan-Africanist...
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La Caldosa : Afro-Lesbian Space-Making and Transnational Politics in Havana
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 32–48.
Published: 01 November 2023
... absence; one such gesture was the invitation to the caldosa. The fact that OREMI’s caldosa became an inviting space of belonging for me—a femme, trans, White, queer, and foreign ethnographer—speaks to the types of coalitional imaginings of Black lesbian politics that animate this essay. As I...
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Woman Overboard: The Perils of Sailing the Black Atlantic, Deportation with Prejudice
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 203–216.
Published: 01 March 2009
... of birthrights (a dubious
one, given the hard fought battles for black Americans to be granted full rights under the US
Constitution) is evoked as a not-so-subtle reminder that citizenship has its privileges, and
“belonging” is one of them. Even the agents of the Justice Department took note...
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Peasant Sensibility and the Structures of Feeling of “My People” in George Lamming’s In the Castle of My Skin
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 34–50.
Published: 01 March 2023
...,” in Houston A. Baker Jr., Manthia Diawara, and Ruth H. Lindeborg, eds., Black British Cultural Studies: A Reader (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 45. 19 George Lamming, introduction to In the Castle of My Skin (1953; repr., Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991), xxxvi...
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On the Self-Evidence of Blackness: An Interview with Charl Landvreugd
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 123–136.
Published: 01 November 2014
... Nostalgia,” in The Politics of Home: Belonging and Nostalgia in Europe and the United States (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). 3 See landvreugd.wordpress.com/about (accessed 11 June 2014). 4 See www.makodelinde.com/#!painful-cake/cgye . 5 Zwarte Piet, or Black Peter...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 174–176.
Published: 01 March 2023
... in the Guianas. She is the author of The Things of Others: Ethnographies, Histories, and Other Artefacts (2020) and the editor of Maroon Cosmopolitics: Personhood, Creativity, and Incorporation (2018). M itchell E sajas is cofounder of the New Urban Collective and The Black Archives in Amsterdam...
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An Intimate History of Empire
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 175–185.
Published: 01 March 2021
... such as the brown babies debate revealed the racial logic of empire and how it shaped the contours of Britishness, but precisely because they exposed and deepened the precarity of black lives in the imperial metropole, they became incitements to discourse, eliciting articulations of self and collective belonging...
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Death and Prefiguration
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 83–88.
Published: 01 March 2024
... in that coffin, as a particular kind of critical practice overshadowed the hope, joy, and community I experienced in my other life as a dancer and artist, albeit a very skeptical one. I ran into Charles “Val” Carnegie not long after my book Modern Blackness had been published, and he asked me if I...
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Decolonizing the Married Woman
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 154–161.
Published: 01 March 2023
... of decolonial citizenship practiced by Black women who sought to imagine different ways of belonging and being in the world. With Reimagining Liberation , Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel makes it possible not only to appreciate the vital activism and theoretical work of the late-colonial-era women she studies...
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An Ethics of Discomfort: Katherine Dunham’s Vodou Belonging
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 1–17.
Published: 01 November 2019
... her own “awakened and undefined need” for a renewed connection to the lost and lacunar history of the black Atlantic (79). At every turn, Dunham refuses to embrace a sense of belonging she does not feel, to sink into the comfort of an oversimplified Afrocentric kinship that ignores language barriers...
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Resisting Colonial Ghosts: Scripting Blackness in the Dominican Republic’s Past and Present
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 132–141.
Published: 01 July 2019
... States. Very recently, García-Peña has extended this dialogue to Europe and is spearheading scholarship on global Afro-dominicanidad and Afro-latinidad . García-Peña’s articles “Black in English: Race, Migration, and National Belonging in Postcolonial Italy” ( Kalfou 3, no. 2 [2016]: 207–29...
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