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Puerto Rican Colonialism, Caribbean Radicalism, and Pueblos Hispanos ’s Inter-Nationalist Alliance

Cristina Pérez Jiménez
Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 50–68.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7912322
Published: 01 November 2019
...Cristina Pérez Jiménez Drawing from Earl Browder’s papers, this essay examines the Communist-sponsored, New York Spanish-language newspaper Pueblos Hispanos (1943–44), arguing that the publication staged an uneasy alliance between the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and the US Communist Party...
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El Caribe on the Horizon: José Esteban Muñoz and the Commitment to Futurity

Sandra Ruiz
Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 94–103.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3139406
Published: 01 July 2015
..., and the impression of stillness in el Caribe. So I want to begin to tie Lolita into this piece by reading her actions on 1 March 1954 through a chusma -esque methodology. On this day, this Puerto Rican Nationalist Party member, along with three male compatriots, headed to the US Capitol to carry out a planned...
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Rediscovering Julia de Burgos: The People's Rebel Soul Poet

Edna Acosta-Belén
Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 188–202.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4272085
Published: 01 November 2017
... and favored a larger degree of self-government or independence for the island. A proindependence nationalist movement had been steadily growing since the party's founding in 1922. Pedro Albizu Campos, a Puerto Rican mulatto lawyer with a degree from Harvard University, had joined the Nationalist Party shortly...
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Haciendo Patria : The Puerto Rican Flag in the Art of Juan Sánchez

Michelle Joan Wilkinson
Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 61–83.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8-2-61
Published: 01 September 2004
... that shaped Sán- chez s artistic approach and confi rmed his vision of art as a political force within the Puerto Rican community. Members of Taller Boricua had maintained relationships with the Young Lords Party, the Puerto Rican revolutionary nationalist organization founded in the late 1960s that was infl...
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The Lost New World of Caribbean Studies: Recalling an Un-American Puerto Rico Project

Harvey Neptune
Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 172–185.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2323382
Published: 01 July 2013
... of nation building. Hence the largely cautionary tone taken in the middle section of “Paths to National Self-Discovery,” which essentially features Boorstin warning Puerto Rican nationalists against taking a dubiously Eurocentric path. 31 Too many of the island's intellectuals, according to him...
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Ride or Die

Miguel Luciano
Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 115–122.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7249199
Published: 01 November 2018
... crisis, the Puerto Rican flag is presented in black and white, evoking historic associations with Puerto Rico’s pro-independence Nationalist Party and transforming it from a flag of mourning to a flag of protest. Figure 7 ’51 (Se acabaron las promesas) [ The Promises Are Over ], 2012–17; 1951...
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Julia de Burgos and the Mourning of Community

Jossianna Arroyo
Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 203–208.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4272094
Published: 01 November 2017
...Jossianna Arroyo This review essay focuses on a critical reading of Vanessa Pérez-Rosario's book Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon with the aim to shed light on these following questions: How can we read the writing of community in the work of Julia de Burgos? And to what...
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Postdisaster Futures: Hopeful Pessimism, Imperial Ruination, and La futura cuir

Yarimar Bonilla
Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 147–162.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8604562
Published: 01 July 2020
...Yarimar Bonilla This essay discusses how Puerto Ricans are imagining and building new futures out of a political context of material and affective ruin that is not guided by the promise of a modernist future or the palliative anticipation of a sovereignty to come. It examines how the politics...
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Cimarrón and the Reordering of the Living World

Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva
Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 110–121.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10795279
Published: 01 July 2023
... institutions, to create a different mundo (world). When political parties fail to offer a vision, pleasure and communal joy have become an effective means to cultivate a different ethos and open new modalities of activism. In the Puerto Rican case, which this author knows best, these cimarrones...
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Doing Comparative Caribbean (Gender) History: Puerto Rican and Belizean Working-Class Women, 1830s–1930s

Anne S. Macpherson
Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 72–86.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2642764
Published: 01 March 2014
...Anne S. Macpherson This essay makes a case for comparative Caribbean historiography rooted in research that crosses linguistic, national, and imperial lines, through a discussion of Puerto Rican and Belizean working women from abolition to the 1930s. In illustrating the commensurability...
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The Afterlives of Julia de Burgos

Vanessa Pérez-Rosario
Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 209–218.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4272103
Published: 01 November 2017
...Vanessa Pérez-Rosario This essay—a response to a discussion of the author's 2014 book Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon —focuses on the importance of generations, intellectual genealogies, iconicity, and the afterlives of Puerto Rican poet and writer Julia de Burgos. ©...
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Regionalism, Imperialism, and Sovereignty: West Indies Federation and the Occupation of Haiti

Raphael Dalleo
Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 61–68.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8190577
Published: 01 March 2020
... extensively) helped him define anticolonialism not just in terms of independence for his Puerto Rican birthplace but through the more expansive project of the Confederación Antillana. 3 The international reverberations of the Haitian Revolution have thus become well known; the US occupation of Haiti...
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Luisa Capetillo and the Pedagogy of Unruliness

Luis Othoniel Rosa
Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 84–97.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10211892
Published: 01 November 2022
...Luis Othoniel Rosa This essay studies how the writings and praxis of loud-reading in tobacco factories of the Puerto Rican anarcha-feminist Luisa Capetillo (1882–1922) exemplifies what can be called a “pedagogy of unruliness.” This hypothesis is that unruliness is a teachable form of knowledge...
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Dislocated Geographies: A Story of Border Crossings

Hilda Lloréns
Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 74–93.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-1-74
Published: 01 February 2006
....¹ Dislocated Geographies Th e 1979 white Cadillac made its way to the Aeropuerto Internacional de Isla Verde on a sunny Monday afternoon in 1982. Th e stereo was blasting: “Si te quieres divertir con 1. Bernardo Vega, Memoirs of Bernardo Vega: A Contribution to the History of the Puerto Rican...
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Transnationalism, Diaspora, Politics, and The Caribbean Postcolonial

Timothy Chin
Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 189–197.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-1-189
Published: 01 February 2006
..., applying her critical perspective to more traditionally nationalist discourses and their use of hybridity discourses. The appropria- tion by Latin American nationalist interests of the hybridity discourse of mestizaje is one 4. Ramón Grosfoguel and Frances Negrón-Muntaner, eds., Puerto Rican Jam...
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The “Contemporaneous Local” in Time: Problems of History in Shalini Puri's The Caribbean Postcolonial

Eleni Coundouriotis
Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 198–205.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-1-198
Published: 01 February 2006
..., applying her critical perspective to more traditionally nationalist discourses and their use of hybridity discourses. The appropria- tion by Latin American nationalist interests of the hybridity discourse of mestizaje is one 4. Ramón Grosfoguel and Frances Negrón-Muntaner, eds., Puerto Rican Jam...
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After the Fact: A Response to My Critics

Shalini Puri
Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 218–229.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-1-218
Published: 01 February 2006
..., applying her critical perspective to more traditionally nationalist discourses and their use of hybridity discourses. The appropria- tion by Latin American nationalist interests of the hybridity discourse of mestizaje is one 4. Ramón Grosfoguel and Frances Negrón-Muntaner, eds., Puerto Rican Jam...
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Contributors

Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 230–232.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-1-230
Published: 01 February 2006
..., applying her critical perspective to more traditionally nationalist discourses and their use of hybridity discourses. The appropria- tion by Latin American nationalist interests of the hybridity discourse of mestizaje is one 4. Ramón Grosfoguel and Frances Negrón-Muntaner, eds., Puerto Rican Jam...
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Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, the Quintessential Maroon: Toward an African Diasporic Epistemology

Evelyne Laurent-Perrault
Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 132–141.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8190674
Published: 01 March 2020
... in the region. The sequelae of slavery loomed in the region, limiting job opportunities for many and generating waves of migrants of African descent. Men and women crisscrossed the Caribbean from the islands to the mainland, to places such as Panamá, Costa Rica, and the United States. 3 Afro–Puerto Ricans...
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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
.... 6 Javier Angulo Guridi, La ciguapa (Santo Domingo: Imprenta de García Hermanos, 1866); reprinted in Emilio Rodríguez Demorizi, Tradiciones y cuentos dominicanos (Santo Domingo: Julio D. Postigo e Hijos, 1969), 86. In addition, Puerto Rican Ramón Emeterio Betances had heritage ties to Santo...
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