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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 18–34.
Published: 01 November 2014
... Bridget Brereton, Race Relations in Colonial Trinidad, 1870–1900 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979), 110–29. 29 Khan, Callaloo Nation , 68. 30 Brereton, Race Relations , 188; see also 189. 31 For a detailed analysis of subaltern Afro- and Indo-Caribbean appropriation...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 69–75.
Published: 01 March 2024
... in such constructions along lines of not only race but gender and sexuality as well. Taking a cue from a personal anecdote Carnegie relates in the book about the problem he poses as a “dundus” (Jamaican with albinism) for systems of racial classification, the author relies on reminiscence and a similar anecdote about...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 84–101.
Published: 01 March 2021
...— This Island Now (1966) and The View from Coyaba (1985)—fictionalize the transition to independence in the anglophone Caribbean and how that transition related to the set of concerns unfolding across the rest of the black world. This essay traces Abrahams’s thought on questions of race and decolonization...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 83–88.
Published: 01 March 2024
.... It addresses Carnegie’s prescient interventions in relation to three canards of political philosophy—race-based notions of belonging, the centrality of secularism to modern notions of political community, and particular discourses of autonomy and self-determination. The author argues that what Carnegie shows...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 125–141.
Published: 01 July 2021
... to the Cuban nation, from its inception, to independence, through the Republic and immediately prior to the Revolution. In addition, a discussion of this relation must consider the discreet comments on race made via official policies, speeches, and discourses on the subject. Using Nancy Morejón’s critical...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 64–71.
Published: 01 July 2018
... influence—similar to how questions of race and Dominican-Haitian relations have recently been approached by scholars. The essay highlights how the longstanding androcentric focus on Rafael Trujillo’s dictatorship (1930–61) and his heterosexual exploits have given way to a recuperation of Dominican women...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 16–29.
Published: 01 March 2010
.... This study shows how the pleasures and public intimacies enabled by these live performances do not come free, but rather work at times to reformulate long-held cultural understandings of things such as race, class, gender and sexuality, and at other times, to reinforce them. Small Axe, Inc. 2010 Music...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 63–84.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Deborah A. Thomas In Rex Nettleford's Mirror Mirror: Identity, Race, and Protest in Jamaica , Rastafari appears as an expression of black knowledge and politics and as a barometer of the immediate postindependence security concerns as they related to black Jamaicans. This essay is interested...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 85–98.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Sharina Maillo-Pozo This essay examines Raquel Cepeda’s memoire, Bird of Paradise. How I Became Latina , through the intersections between Dominican latinidad , gender, race, and hip-hop. By exposing other discourses of latinidad as performed and imagined in New York City by an afrodominicana...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 77–96.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of the PNP’s execution of its vision and, critically, of the Jamaican population itself, from these literary perspectives. With the PNP’s defeat in 1980, race and class relations quickly reverted to the status quo position of white (light) economic power/black subservience. The year would signify not only...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 164–174.
Published: 01 July 2016
... discusses how ethical relations as shaped by race, class, and gender are relevant to Caribbean revolution, arguing that collapse might be the most significant reality that gives reason to hope for revolution and respect for the human in the contemporary Caribbean. In thinking about the need for change...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 189–198.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Dixa Ramírez This essay amplifies some of Maja Horn's arguments in Masculinity after Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature (2014). First, the essay adds texture to Horn's assessment of the Trujillo regime in relation to race by arguing that what Horn discerns as the Trujillato 's...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 46–59.
Published: 01 July 2022
... within queer Cuban and Caribbean studies, noticing the ways they push back against renderings of gender and sexuality as inherently distinct categories. Instead, for these artist-thinkers, trans subjectivity is informed by various experiences related to gender, sexuality, race, class, and geography...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 150–168.
Published: 01 March 2019
... colonial representations and create community in profound ways. Drawing on Sylvia Wynter’s work on colonial epistemologies and representation in relation to questions of race and decolonization and on Rex Nettleford’s discussion of embodiment and marronage, the author lays out a method of decolonial...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 179–189.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Judith Rodríguez This review essay of Rocío Zambrana’s Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico (2021) illustrates Zambrana’s own intervention into “race/gender/class” hierarchies as carrying their own relations of power within her rewriting of the “plantation complex,” using the colony of Puerto...
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Small Axe (2001) 5 (2): 21–40.
Published: 01 September 2001
... to critically interrogate some of the now mytholo-
gized events that have produced the profoundly debilitating politics, coalesced around
the discourse of “race relations,” that characterises contemporary Guyanese life.² In
seeking to understand the role of colonialism in this process...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 26–38.
Published: 01 July 2009
.... To believe that racial relations
begin and end in the crucible of the local is to succumb to a presentist logic overdetermined
by the boundaries of nationalist imaginaries. Rather, diaspora frameworks bring the historical
category of race to bear on the logic of the nation, where race...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 55–69.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of the pervasive antiblack racism that impacts both Dominican immigrants to the island and Afro–Puerto Ricans. Calderón is known in part for his unabashed embrace of black identity, including his virulent critiques of Puerto Rican race relations and his celebrations of blackness. Many of Calderón’s songs, most...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 14–27.
Published: 01 July 2016
... of modernity that emphasized what Western critical thought precluded as thought, namely, its own racialization. In other words, if the ontological grounding of the meaning and significance of modern identities in relation to race was not repressed and concealed by Western critical thought, its traditional...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 57–71.
Published: 01 July 2009
... “The Souls of Black Folk,” in Bridget Brereton’s Race Relations in Colonial Trinidad,
1870–1900.11 In this chapter on the black population, Brereton observes that “by 1891 only
2,055 or 1% of the total population were African born, and the majority of the population had
no first hand...
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