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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 135–144.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of White power. Denial and bad faith are not mere features of this psychic life; rather, they are fundamental conditions for its continued refusal to acknowledge the epistemic and ontological dimensions of Black humanity. This discussion essay examines how Gordon allows us to see the blues as a musical...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 39–56.
Published: 01 July 2009
...” mixture stimulates a preference for whiteness, thus reducing the access to power by those deemed black, it simultaneously fuels a rejection for “pure” forms of whiteness as witnessed in the country's celebration of morenidade (brownness). Not all forms of miscegenation are valued in Brazil's myth...
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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 (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 145–156.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., and suppressing the truthfulness of philosophical and historical claims that threaten one’s power. The racialization of Africans and “Whites” in modernity is a fine example of bad faith’s materiality. As is well known, racial markers surfaced in Enlightenment and deepened during the African slave trade...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 141–150.
Published: 01 March 2017
... versus Personal Self-Descriptions of Identity,” conjecture that this change and the use of the more distinct separation of black and white was influenced by the Black Power local and international movements as well as the civil rights movement. 4 Was this history related to why, through...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 127–136.
Published: 01 September 2003
... erent—it meant dependence,
on their husbands and fathers rather than their owners. . . . Freedom for women was a problem
of male power, as well as white power
Th e implications of this point, which strike to the heart of the problem of freedom, do
not get taken up in Civilising Subjects...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 164–175.
Published: 01 March 2024
... engagement from what they offer through placing them into the posture of defense and outrage?—are features of indefensible, privatized power. Etoke’s analysis offers these gems: “Denial is an essential component of the psychic life of White power”; “Silence is speech. Concealing is showing”; “The symbiosis...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 55–75.
Published: 01 March 2015
... hairstyles, popular among African Americans in the late 1960s as a politically charged rejection of white cultural standards of beauty, were frowned on during this period in Cuba. Black Cubans who wore their hair naturally were associated with the Black Power movement and were persecuted. 49...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 176–193.
Published: 01 July 2022
..., their meanings, and their economies. “Wear and tear” figuratively represents Western metaphysics—one of the most powerful “White mythologies” operative here—and its use of, and emanation from, metaphors to pursue its homoeotic procedures. Metaphors risk untruth and abuse. Their transport may betray the very...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 57–71.
Published: 01 July 2009
... superior class status even without political power. To ally with whiteness
is to go against the grain of the history of labor, to deny a similar colonization of the East
where the “dusky” races were outfitted with an exotic yet demeaned script. It also denies the
revolutionary struggles waged...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 34–49.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of energy for profit,” forcing black music to constantly innovate and elude this exploitation, a process both constituted by and productive of “the blues impulse,” the changing same of black music “in the West.” 44 Bam-Bam rejects roots reggae for its contamination by white power, its commercial...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 103–118.
Published: 01 November 2012
...)
In the way she structures this story, Brodber demonstrates the overwhelming power that
the dominant white discourses exert over the black matriarch’s options and abilities for
expressing herself, even within the confines of her own family. Straightforward accusation of
those responsible appears...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 1–16.
Published: 01 November 2017
... to be no woman no more” (236). To be free to be “as terrible as you wish” is to collapse into the psychological experience of white power. Yet it is also to know the full extent of one's human capacity for doing anything, no matter how dark, in the goal of freedom. In becoming the self that she abhors in order...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 57–76.
Published: 01 February 2008
...: a Critique” (1973), Wynter warns that an unfortunate aspect of the quest
for black identity is that it is often “imitative—the mere negation of ‘white power Power
gains a black face, but the “status quo of privilege and injustice is not to be changed; only the
masters.”28 In effect, a new totalizing...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 134–149.
Published: 01 March 2019
..., and London, reached out to find common cause with the African American struggle for civil rights and Black Power; reached out to support the continent of Africa, in particular those suffering under the brutal antiblack bastions of white power in Southern Africa, Rhodesia, and South Africa; and reached out...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 43–58.
Published: 01 July 2011
... redemptive scripts” have been based on “male
sexual prowess and sexual conquest of the white female body to prove not only the virility but
the viability of black men’s socio-political power.” “Decolonial romance” critiques this position
because of the operation of necropower, while being mindful...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 206–217.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Black Power black feminism Canada Montreal Congress of Black Writers David Austin 19 See Karen Flynn, “Black Canadian Feminist Theorizing,” CLR James Journal 20, nos. 1–2 (2014): 179–94. 20 Jones quotes Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks , trans. Charles Lam Markmann (London...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 200–211.
Published: 01 March 2010
..., The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 2008), 4; hereafter cited in text.
4 See, among others, Trevor Burnard, “ ‘The Countrie Continues Sicklie’: White Mortality in Jamaica, 1655–1780,” Social
History of Medicine 12, no. 1...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 111–123.
Published: 01 November 2017
... Brown power has historical roots on the plantation, but its opposition to Black Nationalisms was consolidated with the independence project. The historical privileging of brownness emerged from the idea that browns were biologically close to white, with positive consequences for life chances...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 152–163.
Published: 01 July 2019
.... The cop would not hesitate. But having the military power to end our lives is not the same as having the power of being the word of “God.” When did those of us interested in defying white supremacy collectively decide that the white supremacist hail—from the cop, the nurse, the teacher, the president...
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