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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 57–71.
Published: 01 July 2019
... that Pan-Africanism cannot form a sufficient basis for Negritude without sustained analysis of the cultural and historical evolution of both continental African and diasporic communities. Sainville’s historiographic intervention blurs the distinction between anti- and postcolonial thought, suggesting...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 1–17.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of African origins provided interwar black artists such as Dunham with a tantalizing possibility of Pan-African solidarity through which they could mobilize their desire for connection with an obscured past and an imagined community in the present. When Dunham found her 1930s fieldwork inevitably run aground...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 34–50.
Published: 01 March 2023
... in the haunted dream of Pa as the residual aspect of “my people” and the characters’ negative feelings toward it. Finally, taking Trumper’s Pan-African vision of “my people” as an emergent cultural form, the author analyzes how the novel shows the ways in which the form falls short of what Lamming identifies...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 53–64.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., regional, Pan-African, or diasporic. This essay lays out three of the experiential baselines that would have undergirded these processes—the beginnings of developmentalism, the normativity of migration, and the more explicit emergence of the United States as a significant actor within political...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 45–51.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Louis Chude-Sokei The Black Scholar ( TBS ), established in 1969, emerged from a public confluence of black political and cultural movements—black power, black arts, Pan-Africanism and decolonization, black feminism, and the emergence of a black political class. As primary intellectual organ...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 18–32.
Published: 01 July 2023
... short novel Nothing’s Mat (2011) to open discursive space for individual and collective identities illegible within dominant theories of Caribbean literature such as pluralism or creolization: supernatural elements more readily identifiable in Latin American magical realism, a Pan-African vision decades...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 95–116.
Published: 01 November 2023
... as that methodology draws on the intellectual and political traditions of Pan-Africanism and Marxism. pjhudson@ucla.edu © Small Axe, Inc. 2023 Walter Rodney Los Angeles political economy methodology Pan-Africanism Rodney’s May 1979 visit was the last time he came to the city and to UCLA. Yet...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 263–280.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Leigh Raiford What is the relationship between photography and diaspora? How did this relationship stave off the catastrophe of black life? This essay uses the nineteenth-century photographic form of the stereograph as a hermeneutic. Through an examination of two iconic photographs of Pan-African...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 116–131.
Published: 01 March 2021
... network of Pan-Africanists, including African American Black Power advocates, intellectuals, and musicians. For example, he had written a letter to Jacob Carruthers, scholar and director of the Kemetic Institute, based in Chicago. Carruthers responded to Karudi’s missive, sharing that he was “jubilant...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 93–104.
Published: 01 February 2008
... of scholarship, one of the most egregious, and saddest, examples of this phenomenon is George Padmore, Pan-Africanism or Communism?: The Coming Struggle for Africa (London: Dennis Dobson, 1956). In the early 1930s, Padmore courageously broke with the international communist movement in response...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 195–205.
Published: 01 November 2020
.... If it appears as though a certain mode of Pan-African patriarchal succession was at play during the Congress of Black Writers, it was. 31 Hill’s presentation, “The Fathers of the Modern Revolt: Marcus Garvey and the Origins of Black Power,” and his genealogy of resistance— from Edward Wilmot Blyden to Garvey...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): vii–x.
Published: 01 July 2018
... , March 1963, 98. 3 Peter Abrahams, Jamaica: An Island Mosaic (London: Her Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1957), xiv. 2 See Hopeton Dunn, “An Interview with Peter Abrahams: Custodian and Conscience of the Pan-African Movement,” Critical Arts 25, no. 4 (2011): 500–513. See also Carol...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 193–202.
Published: 01 March 2009
... in Cardiff, Wales.2 Drake’s expertise on the black and African presence in Britain was forged in the context of the convergence of US black struggles for equality, decolonization movements in Africa and the Caribbean, and the cold war. While based in London, Drake joined a Pan-African network...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 37–54.
Published: 01 March 2015
... production of the 1920s and 1930s. © Small Axe, Inc. 2015 Pan-Africanism Walrond Sylvester Williams Cape Town Caribbean In April 1904, a Trinidadian newspaper reported to its readers that it had received a copy of the syllabus for Wooding's Private Preparatory School in Cape Town. 1...
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Small Axe (2001) 5 (2): 60–65.
Published: 01 September 2001
... Writers, was the prime minister of Dominica until his surprising and untimely death in October 2000. He was known in pan-African circles for his work in Africa, particularly in the struggle against apartheid. ; e late Alfi e Roberts, former test cricket player for the West Indies...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 186–196.
Published: 01 July 2011
..., and articulate their identities visvis the world. Smith’s book sheds light on four approaches to the world: learn- edness being defined through the acquisition of a “classical education,” Pan-Africanism, the publication of a grammar of the nation(’s) language with an emphasis on African...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 150–170.
Published: 01 September 2005
... of ancient Africa as proof that Africans were capable of civilization, and examples of illustrious individuals of African descent in diverse fi elds In a study on the early stages of the complex history of Pan-Africanism, Oruno D. Lara indicates that Firmin brought to the ideological...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 204–206.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., and social history of decolonization, Pan-Africanism, African diasporic politics, and transnational approaches to history. She is the author of the prizewinning Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization (2017). Hazel V. Carby is the Charles C. and Dorothea S...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 217–229.
Published: 01 March 2009
...; Caribbean women, sisters outside the Carib- bean radical tradition and US African American civil rights discourse and sisters outside Pan- Africanist discourse. In other words, while there has been, for example, tremendous headway in black women writers claiming a space within...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 197–207.
Published: 01 July 2020
... for black liberation. It is a historiography that incorporates the literatures of Pan-Africanism, Black Nationalism, Caribbean radical thought, and a range of thinkers and critical practices falling under the broad standard of the black radical tradition—thinkers who often, but not always, ride...