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Resisting Colonial Ghosts: Scripting Blackness in the Dominican Republic’s Past and Present

Sharina Maillo-Pozo
Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 132–141.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7703368
Published: 01 July 2019
... displacement (e.g., migration and exile), and international divisions of labor.” 2 Taking a closer look at the historical “ghosting” of the Dominican Republic in scholarly conversations on free black subjectivity in the Americas, this study opens a window onto the central place of the Dominican Republic’s...
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What Did the Ghosts Whisper? The Fact of Blackness in Dixa Ramírez’s Colonial Phantoms

Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores
Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 142–151.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7703380
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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Blackness and Meaning in Studying Hispaniola: A Review Essay

Silvio Torres-Saillant
Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 180–188.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-1-180
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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Introduction: Critical Currents in Dominican Gender and Sexuality Studies in the United States

Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 64–71.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-6985759
Published: 01 July 2018
... relations and the Dominican conceptions of race and national identity that underwrite them have received significant attention by scholars since long before 2013, the past few years have seen a particularly notable number of US publications. These include “The Challenge and Promise of Dominican Black...
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Transnational Renderings of Negro / a / x /*: Re-centering Blackness in AfroLatinidad

Omaris Z. Zamora
Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 93–99.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9901654
Published: 01 July 2022
... that will continuously reemerge. 18 Hence it can never cease to exist, even when the project of mestizaje also moves into the future. We must remember that our collective Black/ negro futures do not hinge on Latinidad, mestizaje, or White supremacy. Studying the Dominican Republic from a transnational...
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“If I Were You”: Tego Calderón’s Diasporic Interventions

Petra R. Rivera-Rideau
Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 55–69.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4378924
Published: 01 March 2018
... establishes connections between Puerto Ricans and Dominicans through an understanding of their shared marginalization as black subjects. This has important implications for African diaspora theory, which has typically neglected Puerto Rican and Dominican engagements with blackness. Calderón disrupts two...
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“Awful Pirates” and “Hordes of Jackals”: Santo Domingo/The Dominican Republic in Nineteenth-Century Historiography

Anne Eller
Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 80–94.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2739866
Published: 01 July 2014
... and exaggerated accounts and fabricating others. Dominicans were white “with very few exceptions,” one 1905 report asserted. 78 Occupation followed. “As afro/Dominican/black I live in different worlds, and I struggle, continuously, between wanting to be my history and rejecting what is said was my history...
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“Da pa' lo' do' ”: Rita Indiana's Queer, Racialized Dominicanness

Karen Jaime
Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 85–93.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3139394
Published: 01 July 2015
... to critique the prevalent narrative in the Dominican Republic that positions Haiti as the black other against which a “white” Dominican nationalism is created. Attending to Indiana's appropriation of the moniker La Montra , or female monster, alongside her usage of drag and black-/brownface in order...
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Reconstructing Dominican Latinidad : Intersections between Gender, Race, and Hip-Hop

Sharina Maillo-Pozo
Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 85–98.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-6985783
Published: 01 July 2018
... interchanges between African Americans and other Afro-diasporic communities. Cepeda redefines her latinidad by addressing the historical silence and invisibility of Afro-diasporic women’s subjectivities. She challenges the historical opposition to blackness in the construction of Dominican identity both...
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Ghosts of Dominican Past, Ghosts of Dominican Present

Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann
Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 123–131.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7703356
Published: 01 July 2019
... in cases beyond the Dominican Republic. I think, for example, of the proliferation of sculptures and images that portray disfigured and dehumanized apparitions of blackness on sale for tourists in Cuba in recent years. As US Americans relish in their still newly potentiated desires to “see” Cuba...
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Dominican Race and Gender before Trujillo and beyond Caribbean Studies

Dixa Ramírez
Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 189–198.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3726794
Published: 01 November 2016
... and always more emancipatory. 22 In my outright celebration of how these two women performed their blackness and inclusive forms of Dominicanness, I did not want to repeat triumphalist narratives in which US Latina/o and black immigrants and their children must follow certain evolutions in order...
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Inside and Outside the Exhibition Space: The Poetics and Politics of Colectivo Quintapata

Carlos Garrido Castellano, Magdalena Lopez
Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 31–52.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8749758
Published: 01 November 2020
... between the countries or a mitigation of discrimination against Haitian citizens or Dominican blackness. Located in a quintessentially upper-class and “white” area of Santo Domingo, Reflejos called into question the explicit and implicit exclusions that determine how certain historical zones...
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“ Macandal. Makandal. Mackandal .” Man and Protean Pluralema

Ines P. Rivera Prosdocimi
Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 24–44.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9583390
Published: 01 November 2021
... that Haiti is blacker or more African than the Dominican Republic. Through Makandal’s naming and the allusion to Mir’s text, Rueda establishes Makandal’s synonymity with Black resistance and his connection to a Black majority. Although he uses “cimarrón” (Maroon) sparingly, he does choose a Maroon leader...
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Mushrooms and Mischief: On Questions of Blackness

Dixa Ramírez D’Oleo
Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 152–163.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7703392
Published: 01 July 2019
... response, “Perhaps in an attempt to decolonize the power dynamics that have demarcated the ways Dominican blackness and racial identity have been approached by US-based scholars, Ramírez swims against the tide.” 13 It is a bit of an uphill battle to insist that blackness is refracted and not singular...
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Contributors

Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 194–196.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7912504
Published: 01 November 2019
... and culture in the English and Compara- tive Literature Department at San Diego State University, specializing in Caribbean literature across English, Spanish, and French, with a focus on the black diaspora. With Amaury Rodrí- guez, he is the coeditor of Dominican Black Studies, a special issue of The Black...
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One and Divisible: Meditations on Global Blackness

Silvio Torres-Saillant
Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 4–25.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3697226
Published: 01 July 2009
... termed “a floating signifier,” can be understood to “signify differently in Haiti, Jamaica, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico, or Brazil, compared with the structures of racialization and configurations of blackness when members of these Caribbean and Latin American territories...
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La ciguapa y el ciguapeo : Dominican Myth, Metaphor, and Method

Ginetta E. B. Candelario
Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 100–112.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3726890
Published: 01 November 2016
.... Beginning with a brief historicization of the myth's development in Santo Domingo, the author goes on to consider how the most recent decade of anti-Haitianism, negrophobia, misogyny, and homophobia in the Dominican Republic have inspired ciguapeo as an authoctonous method deployed by queer, black...
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Against Type: Reading Desire in the Visual Archives of Dominican Subjects

Dixa Ramírez
Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 144–160.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-6985831
Published: 01 July 2018
..., the photographer and captioner seamlessly applied a nostalgic US stereotype to a woman in a foreign country. In associating the anonymous black woman in the picture with the iconography of the mammy, the photographer and captioner flatten historical differences between the Dominican Republic and the United States...
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Haitian and Dominican E/migration and the (Re)construction of National Identity in the Poetry of the Third Generation

Nicole Roberts
Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 86–103.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-2-86
Published: 01 September 2005
...), if indeed it is at all possible, is more the contemplation of a few Dominican poets and the assertion of some Haitian poets in an attempt to consider the historical injustice toward Haiti. Th is article seeks to explore and articulate the experience of blackness as represented in the present-day...
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Dominican Pride and Shame: Gender, Race, and LGBT Activism in Santo Domingo

Rachel Afi Quinn
Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 128–143.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-6985819
Published: 01 July 2018
... unreadable and they persist. 42 As queer brown and black women, when we move about the Dominican Republic in a group, we are often crowded out of public spaces by men or left to negotiate our movements and behaviors with men we do not know. They act as gatekeepers in public spaces, whether as political...
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