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History, Method, and Myth: Walter Rodney and the Geographies of Black Radicalism
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 95–116.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., the author first discusses Rodney’s engagements with the University of California, Los Angeles, as part of a longer history of Black intellectual and political activism and the geographies of Black radicalism on campus. The author then explores the question of methodology in Rodney’s book, especially...
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Unruly Diasporas: Memory, Disaster, and Belizean Migration
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 63–80.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., and transnational presence of the Belizean community in Los Angeles shaped by environmental challenges. It underscores the critical role of oral histories in capturing Black Belizeans’ experiences, especially given the limited archival records owing to regional erasure. The author emphasizes the importance...
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Untitled Species II , 2010. Mixed media on paper; 66.75 × 50 in. Collection...
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Untitled Species II , 2010. Mixed media on paper; 66.75 × 50 in. Collection of Eric and Tara Hirshberg, Los Angeles. Photo courtesy of the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago
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Published: 01 November 2015
Figure 1.3. Glenn Ligon, To Disembark , 1993. Mixed media, dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist; Luhring Augustine, New York; Regen Projects, Los Angeles; and Thomas Dane Gallery, London
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Day at the Park Belizean Festival . Musicians perform onstage during the Da...
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> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2024
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Portfolio I
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 123–146.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Untitled Species II , 2010. Mixed media on paper; 66.75 × 50 in. Collection of Eric and Tara Hirshberg, Los Angeles. Photo courtesy of the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago ...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 194–196.
Published: 01 July 2022
... in African and African American studies at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. He earned his PhD in culture and performance in 2017 from the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at the University of California, Los Angeles. From 2018 to 2019 he was a Smithsonian Institution postdoctoral fellow...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 188–191.
Published: 01 November 2011
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Donald Cosentino is professor emeritus in the Department of World Arts and Cultures at the
University of California, Los Angeles. He has published widely on black Atlantic art, oral tradi-
tions, religion, and myth, based on fieldwork in Haiti, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria, as well as in
Los Angeles...
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Baby on the Blender: A Visual History of Catastrophe in Haiti
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 134–154.
Published: 01 November 2011
..., Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010), 1–8.
4 Rachel Beauvoir-Dominique, “Under Ground Realms of Being: Vodoun Magic,” in Donald Cosentino, ed., Sacred Arts of
Haitian Vodou (Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1995...
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Here . . . but Disappeared
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 147–158.
Published: 01 November 2021
... Figure 4. Royal Palms, 2014. Charcoal and gold leaf on paper, 42 × 64 in. Image courtesy of Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles 154 [ Cosmo Whyte ] Here . . . but Disappeared Previous two pages Figure 5. Du Boys (1), 2020. Charcoal and gold leaf on paper, 32 × 56 in. Image courtesy of Anat Ebgi Gallery Above...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 281–282.
Published: 01 March 2013
...). R obert A. H ill is professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he became a professor of history in 1977, and is currently John S. Hinkley Visiting Professor in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. He is editor-in-chief of The Marcus Garvey...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (1 (34)): 187–188.
Published: 01 March 2011
... at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Routes and Roots: Navigating Caribbean and Pacific Island Literatures (2007) and editor, with Renée Gosson and George Handley, of Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture (2005). She has published essays on Caribbean...
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Feasting on Scraps
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 198–212.
Published: 01 July 2012
... of the Figure 1. Glenn Ligon, A Feast of Scraps (detail), 1994–98. Room installation, variable dimensions, nine photo collages, 20.5 x 11.5 in. each. Courtesy of the artist and Regen Projects, Los Angeles. Figure 1. Glenn Ligon, A Feast of Scraps (detail), 1994–98. Room installation, variable dimensions...
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“Da pa' lo' do' ”: Rita Indiana's Queer, Racialized Dominicanness
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 85–93.
Published: 01 July 2015
... to read through and unpack the work of Dominican lesbian, writer, and performer Rita Indiana. Davis, a drag performer, began her career within the Los Angeles punk music scene in the 1970s, creating a ’zine titled Fertile La Toyah Jackson ; she later performed with her group, the Afro Sisters, moving...
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At the Crossroads of Many Worlds: Marilyn Houlberg and Arts Patronage in Haiti
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 60–78.
Published: 01 July 2022
...? By the time of her TeleHaiti interview in 2000, Houlberg’s reputation as an influential force for Haitian artists and their works had been well established. As co-organizer of the landmark exhibition Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou , which opened at the Fowler Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles...
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Flow and Arrest
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 205–224.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Figure 1.3. Glenn Ligon, To Disembark , 1993. Mixed media, dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist; Luhring Augustine, New York; Regen Projects, Los Angeles; and Thomas Dane Gallery, London ...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 206–209.
Published: 01 November 2016
... written about in the New York Times , the Los Angeles Times , Art in America , Art Forum , and Studio Museum Magazine and is featured in Phaidon's drawing anthology Vitamin D2 (2013). She has been the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Award, the Gelman Award in Painting...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 244–246.
Published: 01 November 2013
... to storyboard advertising and moved to Los Angeles to pursue painting while working on feature films ( Catwoman , A Single Man , Jesse James ). Nicknamed “the black Vermeer,” she creates paintings that depict “traditional” historical and literary subjects as black, enabling her to challenge our inherited...
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Soundscapes of Disaster and Humanitarianism: Survival Singing, Relief Telethons, and the Haiti Earthquake
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 22–38.
Published: 01 November 2012
... Americans for (mostly) other Americans,
in telethon performances far away in New York and Los Angeles (and London), weeks after
the event. Juxtaposing two soundscapes—the Haitian streets and the telethon—presents
the opportunity to bring together recent scholarship...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 174–176.
Published: 01 March 2023
... and African American Studies at Fordham University. She specializes in African American and Caribbean literature, with a particular interest in slavery studies. Her research has been published in The Black Scholar . Other public-facing scholarship has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books , Black...
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