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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 228–238.
Published: 01 November 2020
... contends that race has been overdetermined in ways that have historically understated the centrality of black labor to the emergence of modern capitalism, to anticapitalist struggle, and to the movement for universal freedom and a more broadly defined socialism. The essay concludes by asserting that black...
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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 (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 110–121.
Published: 01 July 2023
...: Afro–Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021), 162–69. [email protected] © 2023 by Small Axe, Inc. 2023 Caribbean marronage Black social movements human speciesism colonialism La Colmena Cimarrona (the Maroon Beehive...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 263–280.
Published: 01 March 2013
.... These different positionalities, the different locations from which Garvey's and VanDerZee's gazes found each other, become more apparent when we closely consider the photographs that emerge from VanDerZee's commission. Though they are important documents of one of the most significant black social movements...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 15–31.
Published: 01 November 2023
... women’s) politics and social movements in Latin America and the Caribbean. In fact, before the relatively recent rise of scholarship focusing on Black Central American women’s diasporic activism, most discussions of radical Black politics in the region heavily revolved around the early twentieth-century...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 47–61.
Published: 01 March 2016
... Bigger by the social order, the only opportunity to actualize his human power,” the materialism of “official Marxism” remains “unable to comprehend the social claim for recognition.” For this reason, during the 1960s, the black social movements became “the first form of revolt directed explicitly...
View articletitled, From Mode of Production to Mode of Auto-Institution: Sylvia Wynter's <span class="search-highlight">Black</span> Metamorphosis of the Labor Question
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): vii–x.
Published: 01 March 2017
... on to explain, “the strength of the UNIA's devoted following confirms yet again the fact that the real homeland of the movement during these years of the early nineteen-twenties was in the Caribbean. There it attained a depth and a breadth of social outreach and cultural meaning that no other area of the black...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 1–15.
Published: 01 October 2007
... and dynamic factor within [the] Jamaican body politic and body
social at this time, precisely because it provides hope for revolutionary change.”1 By “culture
of dread” Beckford was referring to the dramatic growth of a counter-cultural black idiom that
challenged the cultural hegemony of whiteness all...
View articletitled, From New World to Abeng : George Beckford and the Horn of <span class="search-highlight">Black</span> Power in Jamaica, 1968-1970
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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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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 93–99.
Published: 01 July 2022
... with re-centering Blacknesss in AfroLatinidad in response to the depoliticized usage of this identity. Through a focus on diaspora, movement, and the embodied fact of Blackness , the author argues that when thinking about negro (Black) and negritud (Blackness) from a transnational Spanish Caribbean...
View articletitled, Transnational Renderings of Negro / a / x /*: Re-centering <span class="search-highlight">Blackness</span> in AfroLatinidad
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 98–110.
Published: 01 November 2017
... by the 1930s, for example, slavery had been abolished on the island for more than a century, but Jamaica remained an exploited, and still-dependent, colony whose black majority suffered greatly from the impact of the global economic downturn. Indeed, deteriorating social and economic conditions unleashed...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 125–141.
Published: 01 July 2021
... to incorporate the idiom of the black popular sector, as well as a revolutionary attitude toward aesthetic considerations to encompass social and political dimensions.” 2 In a Gramscian context, “Language [is] intricately connected to how we think about and make sense of the world. Thus it is central...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 108–118.
Published: 01 July 2022
... were up. 29 This led many working-class Black people to feel that they had not advanced despite independence and fueled calls for structural change in conjunction with transnational Black Power movements of the time that sought to refashion the social positioning and meaning of Blackness. If Black...
View articletitled, To Be <span class="search-highlight">Black</span> Is to . . .: The Production of <span class="search-highlight">Blackness</span> in and beyond Trinidad
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 65–80.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Club (WLC), the Black Nationalist middle-class women’s organization that Morris Knibb had cofounded in 1936 and currently led. Morris Knibb, a pioneer of social reform and the person most intimately connected with the mass wedding campaign, had been elected to the Kingston and St. Andrew Council just...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 17–41.
Published: 01 July 2010
... movement between the United States and Jamaica as symbolic of a certain
international trajectory of US civil rights black consciousness, while conversely it obscures the
broader questioning of ideas of emancipation and social transformation articulated through
more layered struggles over political...
View articletitled, Circuits of Political Prophecy: Martin Luther King Jr., Peter Tosh, and the <span class="search-highlight">Black</span> Radical Imaginary
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 151–159.
Published: 01 November 2018
.... In fact there is for me a certain kind of symmetry between these black women scholars’ work and the “originary” founding impulses of the Black Lives Matter movement, not the least being the role of black feminist politics in that movement. On matters of the visual, Sharpe’s textual voice...
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Small Axe (2001) 5 (2): 60–65.
Published: 01 September 2001
...David Austin Introduction to Walter Rodney
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hen the Congress of Black Writers took place in October 1968 in Montreal, the
world was in a state of perpetual turmoil and social upheaval. Reading the news-
paper headlines of the time, one would think...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 152–166.
Published: 01 November 2017
... to the principle of dissent . Appearing in the wake of the 1960s, the book both inhabits, and is an expression of, an incipient, volatile social movement for change—involving a cross-section of subaltern or left positions, from Rastafari to the Black Power intelligentsia. As we have seen, Nettleford's own views...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 97–111.
Published: 01 March 2019
... and groupings throughout the anglophone Caribbean that advocated more radical programs for social and economic transformation. The WPJ was one such organization. The 1970s cannot be defined without reference to the powerful social movements around Black Power that culminated with the demonstrations...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2002
... types of nationalisms that
emerged in Jamaica. If the Creole nationalist movement represented the aspirations of
the Jamaican anticolonial middle class, then Henry’s movement drew its intellectual and
political sources from another tradition in Jamaican political history—black redemptive
thought...
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