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A Case for Relation: Mapping Afro-Latinx Caribbean and Equatoguinean Poetics

Yomaira C. Figueroa
Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 22–35.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8190526
Published: 01 March 2020
...Yomaira C. Figueroa This essay contends that Caribbean conceptualizations of relation, understood through the theorizing and political organizing of women of color feminists, offer decolonial possibilities that enable radical remappings of the Afro-Atlantic. The essay argues that the political...
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Afro-philo-sonic Fictions: Black Sound Studies after the Millennium

Tavia Nyong'o
Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 173–179.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2739938
Published: 01 July 2014
...Tavia Nyong'o This essay reviews two recent publications in the area of black music and sound studies—Julian Henriques's Sonic Bodies: Reggae Sound Systems, Performance Techniques, and Ways of Knowing (2011) and Alexander G. Weheliye's Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity (2005)—taking...
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Caliban's Reason and the Future of Afro-Caribbean Philosophy

Claudette Anderson
Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 173–178.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-6-1-173
Published: 01 March 2002
...Claudette Anderson Small Axe Incorporated 2002 Caliban’s Reason and the Future of Afro-Caribbean Philosophy Claudette Anderson aget Henry, in his book Caliban’s Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy, has done an excellent job of excavating what he terms the “implicit...
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Culture, Politics and Writing in Afro-Caribbean Philosophy: A Reply to Critics

Paget Henry
Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 179–190.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-6-1-179
Published: 01 March 2002
...Paget Henry Small Axe Incorporated 2002 Culture, Politics and Writing in Afro- Caribbean Philosophy: A Reply to Critics Paget Henry must begin by thanking Brian Meeks, Maureen Warner-Lewis, Patrick Goodin, and Claudette Anderson for taking the time to put down so clearly...
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When the Moon Waxes Red : Afro-Asian Feminist Intimacies and the Aesthetics of Indenture

Jordache A. Ellapen
Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 94–111.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4156810
Published: 01 July 2017
... identity in the postapartheid period. Through an analysis of her aesthetic practice, this essay examines the way the artist forges a transnational Afro-Asian feminist framework that links Africa, Asia, and the Americas by emphasizing the various forms of violence—state, domestic, sexual, racial, colonial...
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The Artwork of Clara Morera: Afro-Cuban Religious Legacy with a Twist

Ana Belén Martín Sevillano
Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 99–109.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3844271
Published: 01 March 2017
... to participate actively in the city's cultural life, often gathering with the groups of intellectuals and artists who were addressing the lack of recognition and visibility that Afro-Cubans had suffered in Cuba, implicitly questioning the discriminatory practices still prevalent in the society. In 1964 Morera...
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What Happens to Black in the Afro-Surinamese Transatlantic Diaspora?

Gloria Wekker
Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 85–92.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9901640
Published: 01 July 2022
...Gloria Wekker This essay tells a narrative of various contexts in the Afro-Surinamese diaspora that share a struggle around the meanings of Black . What happens to Black in the Afro-Surinamese transatlantic diaspora? Some of the questions addressed are, Which terms have African descendant people...
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Above left, <span class="search-highlight">Afro</span>-Chinese soundsystem pioneer Tom the Great Sebastian (Thoma...

Above left, Afro-Chinese soundsystem pioneer Tom the Great Sebastian (Thoma...

in Bigger than the Sound: The Jamaican Chinese Infrastructures of Reggae > Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2020
Figures 3 and 4 Above left, Afro-Chinese soundsystem pioneer Tom the Great Sebastian (Thomas Wong). Above right, a commemorative illustration by Michael Thompson (a.k.a. Freestylee), Artist without Borders, 2011 (R.055). Courtesy of the estate of Michael Thompson More
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Stills from movt nr. 6 , Notes on <span class="search-highlight">Afro</span>-Contemporaneity; Destination Inner...

Stills from movt nr. 6 , Notes on Afro-Contemporaneity; Destination Inner...

in Portfolio II > Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 July 2015
Stills from movt nr. 6 , Notes on Afro-Contemporaneity; Destination Inner Space , 2014; performance, fifteen minutes. Photos by Charl Landvreugd More
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Bigger than the Sound: The Jamaican Chinese Infrastructures of Reggae

Tao Leigh Goffe
Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 97–127.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8749806
Published: 01 November 2020
...Figures 3 and 4 Above left, Afro-Chinese soundsystem pioneer Tom the Great Sebastian (Thomas Wong). Above right, a commemorative illustration by Michael Thompson (a.k.a. Freestylee), Artist without Borders, 2011 (R.055). Courtesy of the estate of Michael Thompson ...
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Redefining Mestizaje : How Trans-Caribbean Exchanges Solidified Black Consciousness in Cuba

Devyn Spence Benson
Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 91–108.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9384286
Published: 01 July 2021
...Devyn Spence Benson; Antonio López This essay recovers the history of 1960s and 1970s black movements in Cuba through an examination of works by Afro-Cuban intellectuals and their meetings with Caribbean thinkers to show the coexistence of mestizaje and black consciousness as a defining...
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The Dual Biopolitics in the Cuban Postplantation of Gloria Rolando’s Raíces de mi corazón

Sarah Margarita Quesada
Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 50–68.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9384212
Published: 01 July 2021
... of the black Cuban Partido Independiente de Color (the Independent Party of Color) and thousands of other Afro-Cubans through the plane of the intimate. The author argues that Rolando’s film challenges the myth of racial equality throughout Cuba’s modern history by celebrating Afro-Cuban traditions, from...
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Resisting Colonial Ghosts: Scripting Blackness in the Dominican Republic’s Past and Present

Sharina Maillo-Pozo
Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 132–141.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7703368
Published: 01 July 2019
... their historical obliteration in Western imaginaries. Three questions guide the commentary: How have Afro-Dominican women been ghosted from national building projects in both the Dominican Republic and the United States? How have Afro-Dominican women writers and performers refused traditional understandings...
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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
...José I. Fusté This essay uses Vanessa Valdés’s Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (2017) to reflect on the different stakes surrounding debates about Schomburg as a historical figure and also as a heuristic for grasping the complex vicissitudes of Afro-Latinx life...
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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
...Nancy Raquel Mirabal The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is the premier center of African American and Afro-diasporic studies. Yet, as the literary scholar Vanessa Valdés argues, we know little of the center’s namesake and his drive to collect and establish a renowned archive...
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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
...Evelyne Laurent-Perrault This essay engages Vanessa K. Valdés’s Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg . It traces Valdés’s main contributions and notes that her work invites readers to expand their views of Schomburg’s Afro-Caribbean/Latinx/Latin American identity...
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Introduction: Literature and the State in Nancy Morejón

Antonio López
Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 83–90.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9384272
Published: 01 July 2021
...Antonio López; Antonio López This essay introduces a special section on the Afro-Cuban poet and intellectual Nancy Morejón’s 1982 book Nación y mestizaje en Nicolás Guillén ( Nation and Mestizaje in Nicolás Guillén ). It sets up the contributors by surveying the literary and political trajectory...
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Dread Bodies: Doubles, Echoes, and the Skins of Sound

Julian Henriques
Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 191–201.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2739956
Published: 01 July 2014
...Julian Henriques This essay takes off from Tavia Nyong'o's “Afro-philo-sonic Fictions” to make a journey into the embodiment of sounding through the dread body. It starts with Prince Buster's Judge Dread persona and Rastafarianism rather than the sonic bodies of the bashment gal in the setting...
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Reconstructing Dominican Latinidad : Intersections between Gender, Race, and Hip-Hop

Sharina Maillo-Pozo
Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 85–98.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-6985783
Published: 01 July 2018
... , the memoir lays the foundation for future inquires related to Afro-Latinx identities as portrayed in contemporary fiction and nonfiction narratives by Dominican women authors in the United States. This study prompts further questioning into how the interchange between island and diaspora discourses influence...
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“Todos los negros y todos los blancos y todos tomamos café”: Race and the Cuban Revolution in Nicolás Guillén Landrián's Coffea arábiga

Anne Garland Mahler
Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 55–75.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2873341
Published: 01 March 2015
...Anne Garland Mahler In 1968, Nicolás Guillén Landrián, Afro-Cuban filmmaker and nephew of poet Nicolás Guillén, was commissioned by the Cuban Film Institute to make a didactic documentary on the Havana Greenbelt agricultural campaign. Instead, Guillén Landrián used this film, Coffea arábiga...
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