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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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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
... sol In Philadelphia, I am instructed to switch planes. Th ere is a forty-minute wait. Th e waiting room is fi lled with the familiar faces of Puerto Rican strangers. Spanglish words fl ow all around me. I have made this voyage from New York countless times, taking it for granted...
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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
... of the Puerto Rican population lives on the US mainland.¹ Some scholars have used the phrases commuter nation and translocal nation to illuminate the transit of bodies on fl ights between San Juan and cities such as New York, Miami, and Chicago.² Th ese terms divided nation, commuter nation, translocal...
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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
... these diasporic connections manifest. Reggaeton emerged from the long and complex histories of migrations between the Caribbean and the United States as well as within the Caribbean basin. Although reggaeton has generally been associated with Puerto Ricans on the island, Nuyoricans (Puerto Ricans in New York...
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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
... Rican migrations to New York City and to what it meant to be Nuyorican , a neologism coined to refer to New York Puerto Ricans. The use of the term was solidified in the early 1970s by a generation of poets, writers, and artists born or raised in the city, many of whom I had the privilege to come...
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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
... Small Axe, Inc. 2017 generations genealogy iconicity afterlife In the summer of 2004 I traveled from California where I was living at the time to New York City to begin research on what would later morph into Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon . 1 In advance...
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Dancing in an Enclosure: Activism and Mourning in the Puerto Rican Summer of 2019

Arnaldo M. Cruz-Malavé
Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 1–23.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9901569
Published: 01 July 2022
... Ed Morales, Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico (New York: Bold Type, 2019). 12 PROMESA is the Puerto Rican Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act. 11 See Yarimar Bonilla and Naomi Klein, “The Trauma Doctrine,” in Bonilla and LeBrón...
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Toward a Genealogy of Water: Reading Julia de Burgos in the Twenty-First Century

Rebeca L. Hey-Colón
Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 179–187.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4272076
Published: 01 November 2017
... bodies to it are coded as dangerous; only land and its presumed fixity can offer safety and cohesion. As a result of yet another family tragedy in New York, La carreta ends with the mother and daughter deciding to leave the United States to return to the Puerto Rican countryside. By returning...
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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
... inexis-tente,” Diálogo UPR , 3 July 2016. 28 See Andrew Rice, “The McKinsey Way to Save an Island,” New York Magazine , 17 April 2019. 29 See D’vera Cohn, Eileen Patten, and Mark Hugo Lopez, Puerto Rican Population Declines on Island, Grows on US Mainland (Washington, DC: Pew Research...
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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
... Anthropology: The Making of the People of Puerto Rico” (PhD diss., New School for Social Research, New York, 1989). For other important reflections, see the entire issue of Review/Revista Interamericana 8, no. 1 (1978), including Sidney W. Mintz, “The Role of Puerto Rico in Modern Social Science,” 5–16...
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Literatura Nullius : The Untranslatability of Eduardo Lalo and the Multirelation of the Puerto Rican Intellectual

Natalie L. Belisle
Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 64–77.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2826461
Published: 01 November 2014
..., ed., None of the Above: Puerto Ricans in the Global Era (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), 195–210. 26 Vicky Unruh has noted that, owing to the island's anomalous position in Latin America and the Caribbean, Puerto Rico's vanguardist activity centered more on political concerns—namely...
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Translation and Transculturation in the New York–Hispanic Caribbean Borderlands

Laura Lomas
Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 147–162.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3726758
Published: 01 November 2016
... that transpires in Hispanic Caribbean New York. © Small Axe, Inc. 2016 Fernando Ortiz hispanophone Caribbean diaspora contact zone Nuyorican Caliban Miguel Algarín Jesus Abraham “Tato” Laviera Roberto Márquez Lourdes Casal Spanglish Puerto Rican diaspora For Tato Laviera 35 Algarín...
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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
... critical perspectives. Some examples are the epistolary volume Cartas a Consuelo , edited by Eugenio Ballou, which includes the letters written to her younger sister during her exile in Cuba and New York; the special volume of CENTRO: Journal for Puerto Rican Studies dedicated to Burgos, edited by Lena...
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Schomburg’s Blackness of a Different Matter: A Historiography of Refusal

José I. Fusté
Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 120–131.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8190662
Published: 01 March 2020
...: On Being Antillano , Negro, and Puerto Rican in New York, 1891–1938,” Journal of American Ethnic History 21, no. 1 (2001): 3–49; Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, “The World of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg,” in Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores, eds., The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United...
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Debt, Crisis, and Resurgence in Puerto Rico

Adriana María Garriga-López
Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 122–132.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8604538
Published: 01 July 2020
... Energy Coloniality in Puerto Rico,” Journal of Applied Communication Research 46, no. 5 (2018): 535–60, doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2018.1529418 . 33 I borrow “undercommons” from Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (New York: Minor Compositions...
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Contributors

Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 174–176.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10211793
Published: 01 November 2022
... artist-photographer based in New York, where he moved in 1982 to study at Parsons School of Design. He began to work as an assistant to various well-known photographers in the late 1980s. In 1992 he founded and directed a group of highly gifted Puerto Rican artists called O. P. Art, Inc. (Organization...
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Reading Luisa Capetillo

Nancy Bird-Soto
Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 74–83.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10211878
Published: 01 November 2022
.... Zalta (Winter 2018 ed.), plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2018/entries/feminism-latin-america , 1.2, para. 4. 2 Norma Valle Ferrer, Luisa Capetillo, Pioneer Puerto Rican Feminist , trans. Gloria Waldman-Schwartz (New York: Peter Lang, 2006), 62. 3 Cherríe L. Moraga, “Foreword: ‘The War...
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On the Hispanophone Caribbean Question

Vanessa Pérez-Rosario
Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 21–31.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3726830
Published: 01 November 2016
... University Press, 2008); Raquel Rivera, New York Ricans from the Hip Hop Zone (New York: Palgrave, 2003); Juan Flores, From Bomba to Hip Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000); Cesar Salgado, “The Archive and Afro-Latin@ Field-Formation: Arturo Alfonso...
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Schomburg, Futurity, and the Precarious Archives of Self

Nancy Raquel Mirabal
Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 111–119.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8190650
Published: 01 March 2020
... worthy of preservation. The Ten Years’ War (1868–78) and La Guerra Chiquita (1879–80) in Cuba prompted an increased migration of black Cubans and Puerto Ricans to the United States during the late nineteenth century. It was no coincidence that so many moved to New York City. In addition to the lucrative...
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A Multispecies Caribbean: The Aesthetics of Ecological Reinvention in Art by Dhara Rivera

Charlotte Rogers
Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 20–38.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-11131174
Published: 01 March 2024
... and the Transformations of Tropicality,” in John Soluri, Claudia Leal, and José Augusto Pádua, eds., A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America (New York: Berghahn, 2018), 45–66. 12 On the rise of American-style consumerism in Puerto Rico, see César J. Ayala and Rafael Bernabe, Puerto Rico...
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