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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 1–3.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Glyne A. Griffith Small Axe Inc. 2009 Blackness Unbound: Interrogating
Transnational Blackness
Glyne A. Griffith
Democracy and the rights of man would never have existed without the Haitian revolution—
a consideration of which is an object lesson in understanding the debt the Old...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 180–188.
Published: 01 February 2006
...Silvio Torres-Saillant Small Axe Incorporated 2006 Blackness and Meaning
in Studying Hispaniola:
A Review Essay
Silvio Torres-Saillant
Haitian-Dominican Counterpoint: Nation, Race, and State on Hispaniola, Eugenio Matibag. New
York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. ISBN: 0...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 34–51.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Winnifred Brown-Glaude This essay examines public discussions around skin bleaching in Jamaica and demonstrates that a discourse of pathology is a dominant frame of meaning used to explain this practice. I argue that the practice of bleaching destabilizes popular conceptions of blackness that rely...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 4–25.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Silvio Torres-Saillant This article offers to the consideration of readers a number of site-specific vignettes that highlight the ways in which the experience of blackness--as different from the fact of blackness--may take different forms depending on the moment, the socio-cultural setting...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (2): 25–48.
Published: 01 September 2002
...Deborah A. Thomas Small Axe Incorporated 2002 Modern Blackness:
“What We Are and What We Hope to Be”
Deborah A. Thomas
his is a progressive tale, or rather a tale of progress redefi ned in Jamaica. Like most
tales, it has its various twists and turns, but I am going to focus...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 1–31.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Krista A. Thompson Small Axe Incorporated 2004 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Black Skin, Blue Eyes : Visualizing Blackness in Jamaican Art, 1922 1944 Krista A. Thompson From the opposite end...
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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...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 108–118.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Leniqueca A. Welcome This essay shows that despite the variegated experience of Black-identified people globally and the unstable and processual nature of Blackness as a category, the meaning of Blackness remains anchored in the geography of the plantation, and the deathliness this produces still...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 59–66.
Published: 01 March 2023
... (accessed 10 October 2022). 26 On Blackness and the performative arts, see Marleen de Witte, “Heritage, Identity, and the Body in Afro-Dutch Self-Styling,” Jahrbuch für Europäische Ethnologie 12 (2017): 127–45; on Winti and the political, see Markus Balkenhol, “Commemorating the African Ancestors...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 134–146.
Published: 01 November 2021
... an alternative—ancestral—terrain within the interior geographies of Indigenous Blackness. By framing ethnographic vignettes of Garifuna ancestral memory throughout the diaspora as an embodied archive of knowledge production, this essay demonstrates how Brathwaite’s mapping of an intellectual genealogy creates...
FIGURES
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 164–175.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Lewis R. Gordon This response essay addresses anti-Blackness and other fears of Black consciousness through discussing analyses and critiques of the author’s Fear of Black Consciousness (2022) offered by Nathalie Etoke, Terrence L. Johnson, and André Brock. Concepts under discussion include bad...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 88–99.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Michelle Stephens This tribute assesses the importance of Stuart Hall's work both personally, for the author, and in relation to a broader scholarly conversation about blackness that shapes the latter half of the twentieth century and spans the United States, the Caribbean, and the United Kingdom...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 180–190.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Alexander G. Weheliye This short essay responds to Tavia Nyong'o's insightful “Afro-philo-sonic Fictions,” a discussion of Weheliye's Phonographies and Julian Henriques's Sonic Bodies , concentrating in particular on the analytics of blackness in Western modernity, the place of Africa in diaspora...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 142–151.
Published: 01 July 2019
... representations of the Dominican Republic as a space that is racially unconscious and reminds us of the overlooked history of free black experience in the eastern side of the island, pressing the reader to face the ghosted racialized realities that these facts highlight. This review considers the epistemological...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 132–141.
Published: 01 July 2019
... elite? Copyright © 2019 Small Axe, Inc. 2019 colonialism (trans)national building projects Dominican blackness ghosting Afro-Dominican feminism A bronze statue of Christopher Columbus sits in the heart of Santo Domingo’s colonial zone, in the Parque a Colón, named as such in the late...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 152–163.
Published: 01 July 2019
... that subjects of the African diaspora have been damaged by white supremacy and colonialism differently, the faster we can figure out how to sprout out of the rotting episteme created by Man. Plants can and do grow from rot. Copyright © 2019 Small Axe, Inc. 2019 race Dominican Republic ecology black...
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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 (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 123–136.
Published: 01 November 2014
... that Landvreugd's work and the interview that follows can be understood. His is a project of questioning what it means to be black in Europe, or, said differently, whether one can be both black and European. Movement No. 7 , the occasion for this conversation, was the second in a series of three contemporary art...
FIGURES
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 26–38.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Michelle Stephens Looking back at the dialogue between Black British Cultural Studies and African American Studies that occurred during the 1980s and 1990s, when Stuart Hall first asked the question, “What is this black in black popular culture?” this article explores how that conversation has...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 116–126.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Rinaldo Walcott This essay suggests that Caribbean studies and Black studies might be constituted as twins, arguing that Blackness and Black people are the foundational instituted terms of both studies. This argument is based in the author’s reading of the anglophone Caribbean and draws on Kamau...
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