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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 112–120.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo At the turn of the twentieth century, workers, anarchists, and intellectuals created a global resistance culture through print media, migration, and their radical imaginaries. The networks that animated this resistance culture gave way to the Counter-Republic of Letters...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 68–73.
Published: 01 November 2022
...–50. 5 See Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo, “Luisa Capetillo and the Counter-Republic of Letters,” this issue of Small Axe , 112–20. 6 See Nancy Bird-Soto, “Reading Luisa Capetillo,” this issue of Small Axe , 74–83. 7 See Gervasio L. García and Ángel G. Quintero Rivera, Desafío y...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 64–77.
Published: 01 November 2014
... that parallels the anachronistic fabrication of the terra nullius, Lalo frames his writing as an “anachronistic un avant-garde of the twenty-first century (emphasis in the original)” and a narrative of “counter-conquest” (61). He situates his writing, belatedly, in relation with the early-twentieth-century...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 123–131.
Published: 01 July 2019
...). It is striking that Aníbal Quijano’s work on the “coloniality of power” does not enter the book until this final chapter, seeming by extension to be most relevant to the contemporary moment the chapter examines (from the late twentieth century to the present) (189). 12 Counter to Quijano’s framework...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 14–31.
Published: 01 October 2008
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of the rule of law that is CIA-funded violence or an internationally sponsored coup. Most
significant, and against Dupuy, Hallward provocatively defends Aristide’s recourse to “the one
and only source of non-predatory pressure available” to counter the entrenched corruption of
the Haitian political...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 72–84.
Published: 01 July 2018
... to their treasonous actions. She countered, rather fruitlessly, condemning the “reproachable actions against the politics of my Illustrious, Respectable, and Beloved Jefe” Trujillo, arguing she had nothing to do with advising her stepson and grandson in their nefarious activities and emphatically affirming her...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 37–43.
Published: 01 March 2020
... Betances’s vision emphasized links with black creole leaders in Haiti and efforts to affiliate Jamaica to the union. 6 In his famous speech “Las Antillas para los Antillanos” (“The Antilles for Antilleans”), Betances countered the principle of “America for Americans” that emerged from the US expansionist...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 39–54.
Published: 01 March 2018
... become teachers. The GPI has not positioned itself as a monument to struggles now past, nor has it set out to excavate a world no longer present. The archive is proffered to counter “cultures of hiatus,” to affirm a sense of momentum, using the past to inform horizons of the possible. This is seen...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 1–15.
Published: 01 July 2021
... with the primary goal of ensuring that the results of this process would not counter their own interests and political agendas. Second, it debunks the assumption that non-Western countries were “opposed to political rights and civil liberties and emphasized only the ‘right to development.’” 59 Indeed...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 121–134.
Published: 01 November 2010
... seemingly countered the essentializing, identitar-
ian emphases of a homogenized, modèle républicain version of colonial history, a model that
the 23 February law appeared to epitomize. They highlighted the risk that attempts to legislate
on memory increasingly serve further...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 47–61.
Published: 01 March 2016
... of existence” on which the plantation (and subsequently the factory) were premised (107). Embodying a “counter-aesthetic and counter ethic” in which their “oath-taking ceremonies and subsequent revolts were at one and the same time a form of praxis and abstract theoretical activity” (139), the black oral...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 21–31.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., Ideologies of Hispanism ; and Díaz Quiñones, Sobre los principios . 8 Díaz Quiñones, Sobre los principios , 28. 9 “Counter the anti-Spanish sentiment that might exist in the former colonies and ensure the loyalty of the elite to the project of building a modern Hispanic community in which...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 35–50.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of Haitianized speech which represents the blurring of linguistic and cultural boundaries between Haiti and the Dominican Republic” represents a counter to the “essentialist conception of national identity as propagated by the romantic model” and has the power to “constitute a direct threat to Dominican identity...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 186–198.
Published: 01 November 2021
... place, narratives that counter the pull of death as finality in the aftermath of natural disaster. “Nothing would be a more fitting requiem for the dying,” she writes, “than a sustainable Haiti that will not crumble in the future from the man-made disasters that are currently under way.” 21...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 94–104.
Published: 01 October 2008
...Barbara Prézeau-Stephenson This article focuses on the visual arts in contemporary Haiti, providing a rare insight into the current creative context. Countering a customary focus on history painting and Vodou-inspired or magical realist work, it explores the evolution of artistic production over...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 50–68.
Published: 01 July 2021
... “inequalities experienced by the actors [that] lead to uneven historical power in the inscription of traces.” 50 The camera now leaves the interior for the exterior to pan across members of the PIC dressed in white and gathering in a plaza. The film counters these images with photos of bodies piled high...
FIGURES
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 161–174.
Published: 01 July 2018
... or subjugated forms of knowledge in the Dominican setting is crucially directed to counter the operations of gossip and the “foro público” during and after Trujillo’s reign of terror as an alternative strategy of social control and subjugation. 32 In this sense, the cuckold vignettes that open “Power Games...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 1–21.
Published: 01 November 2012
... to confer. We find in Vastey’s work
a similar layering of secular and divine legitimations of Christophe’s monarchy. Countering
the colonist Mazère’s contempt for Christophe as “ridiculous,” Vastey affirms that Christophe
was crowned by popular consent based on his meritorious attributes...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 18–35.
Published: 01 July 2014
... in national social and political life, the precise content of these legacies remains largely amorphous, as do proposals for countering them. A better understanding of the legacies of the Trujillo dictatorship is greatly hindered, I argue, by prevalent ways of conceptualizing the dictatorship itself as either...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 111–119.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of a man who strongly believed that education and learning could eradicate racism and segregation, to the point of being called naïve. His decades-long obsession with collecting materials was a strategy for countering the widespread notion that African American and Afro-diasporic people had no history...
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