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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 84–101.
Published: 01 March 2021
... and to contribute to the decolonization project in Africa and the Caribbean. 9 From Jamaica, “his little piece of Africa,” Abrahams could participate in and help shape the political form and institutions of decolonization somewhat removed from his contemporaries with whom he disagreed, such as Kwame Nkrumah...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 106–121.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., and other critics of the postcolonial Caribbean gathered for the symposium marking the book’s twentieth anniversary, the essay discusses other closely interconnected historical legacies in Jamaica and the Caribbean—relatively low levels of trust and weak social institutions—that, along with race-thinking...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 1–17.
Published: 01 November 2014
... are put into the context of larger debates within Jamaica about sovereignty in the wake of US and UK announcements linking budgetary aid to compliance with international LGBT rights norms. © Small Axe, Inc. 2014 Caribbean nationalism Staceyann Chin autobiography LGBT violence We turn...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 75–85.
Published: 01 July 2023
..., “Claude McKay’s Jamaica,” Caribbean Quarterly 23, nos. 2–3 (1977): 38–53; and Rupert Lewis and Maureen Warner-Lewis, eds., Garvey: Africa, Europe, the Americas (Kingston: ISER, 1986). 45 See, respectively, Greg L. Childs, “Secret and Spectral: Torture and Secrecy in the Archives of Slave...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 79–89.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Ananya Jahanara Kabir Carolyn Cooper’s influence as an academic converges with her important work as tastemaker and trendsetter for Jamaica and the wider Caribbean. In this personal homage to Cooper, charted through their meetings in Haiti, Jamaica, and London, the author proposes that we see...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 68–80.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., “Double Exposure and Coffee Farming: A Case Study of the Vulnerability and Livelihood Experiences among Small Farmers in Frankfield, Jamaica,” Caribbean Geography , no. 20 (July 2015): 41–59. 11 See Popke, Curtis, and Gamble, “Social Justice Framing.” 12 A number of development...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 102–107.
Published: 01 March 2022
... and the Grenadian revolutionaries. “The Caribbean in an Age of Dis” would commence with Kamau’s harrowing account of the assault on him at his apartment on Hope Road in Kingston, Jamaica, as recounted in Trench Town Rock , a pathway into a discussion of three essays by Tracy Robinson, Robert Carr, and Michael...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (2): 49–71.
Published: 01 September 2002
.... Buttrick and M. Witter, “Macroeconomics: A First Course” (mimeographed text, University of the West
Indies, 1997), 31.
12. B. Chevannes and H. Ricketts, “Return Migration and Small Business Development in Jamaica,” Caribbean
Circuits, 164.
13. Ibid., 187–90.
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 128–142.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Beckford Bailey: A Biography.” 36 See Henrice Altink, Public Secrets, Race, and Colour in Colonial and Independent Jamaica (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019). 35 See Colin Clarke, Society and Politics in the Caribbean (New York: Springer, 1991). 34 See Hart, Women...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 64–79.
Published: 01 March 2005
... strategies for countering and overcoming the
publishing industry’s deafness to our voices. With this in mind I will examine the work
of two prominent Caribbean women writers—Jamaica Kincaid and Edwidge Danticat.
Kincaid’s elevated status in the literary world and the U.S. academy...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 191–204.
Published: 01 March 2022
... more deeply the issues of respectability, violence, and refusal, doing so in conversation with Patricia Noxolo, Beverley Mullings, and Kevon Rhiney—Caribbean and Caribbeanist geographers who help explore the scam as representative of repair within Jamaica’s violent, impoverished, and seemingly...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 61–79.
Published: 01 June 2006
... Chevannes, “Revival and
Black Struggle,” Savacou, no. 5 (1978): 27–39; Milton Cohen, “Medical beliefs and practices of the Maroons of
Moore Town: A study in acculturation,” (PhD thesis, New York University, 1973); Donald W. Hogg, “Magic
and ‘Science’ in Jamaica,” Caribbean Studies 1, no. 2...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 37–46.
Published: 01 November 2018
.... 12 See Kate Chappell, “Tambourine Army Hits Back against Sexual Violence,” Guardian , 10 March 2017, www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/10/jamaica-caribbean-tambourine-army-sexual-violence ; see also the Lifeinleggings Facebook page, www.facebook.com/officiallifeinleggings . The large array...
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Small Axe (2001) 5 (2): 41–59.
Published: 01 September 2001
... to acknowledge) Jamaica’s class system. - e comments of two
reviewers from the front cover of the paperback edition similarly push the novel in dif-
ferent interpretive directions. - e line “Caribbean in origin but global in vision,” sug-
gests a cosmopolitanism rooted in the Caribbean...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 51–71.
Published: 01 July 2023
... 2023 by Small Axe, Inc. 2023 colonial education Yoruba language African slave indentured labor Kumina Black Power Eric Williams Kamau Brathwaite Paul Lovejoy Caribbean-oriented press Maureen Warner-Lewis, 1993, Lopez Photography, Kingston, Jamaica. Courtesy of Maureen Warner-Lewis...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 164–180.
Published: 01 November 2020
... in Jamaica might tell us about the development of literary culture in the Caribbean. The author ends by thinking about how a focus on returns might also help us to rethink the decade. The essay examines instances of migrant returns, through which people recrossed the waters, and explores literary remittances...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 56–76.
Published: 01 July 2015
...: An Assessment of the Case of Jamaica on Its 25th Independence Anniversary,” Caribbean Studies 21, nos. 1–2 (1988): 70; and Michael Manley, Jamaica: Struggle in the Periphery (London: Third World Media, 1982), 59. This was more than a mere discourtesy; although the new independence constitution had...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 150–168.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of the National Dance Theatre of Jamaica, professor at the University of the West Indies, and more. From this constellation of considerable power, Nettleford created the conceptual basis for new cultural institutions—the African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica (ACIJ) and the Cultural Training Centre (now the Edna...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 49–64.
Published: 01 November 2016
... of the idea of Hispanic Caribbean studies for the historical study of the region. Historically, the Hispanic Caribbean at times included islands and colonies such as Jamaica, Trinidad, and Saint-Domingue. Patterns of migration further complicate the boundaries of the Hispanic Caribbean, as diaspora renders...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 97–111.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Rupert Lewis This essay examines the ideological and political circumstances in Jamaica and the anglophone Caribbean that led to the emergence of the Workers Party of Jamaica in 1978. It explores the ways Jamaican radicals in the 1970s appropriated and applied the ideas of Marx and Lenin...
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