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Multiplying Archives
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 179–188.
Published: 01 November 2016
... identity formations through a transnational frame. 4 Furthermore, Masculinity after Trujillo illustrates the value of literary critique for the study of hegemonic and oppositional archives. I will follow Horn's invitation to move away from the dictator's body by moving away from the masculine...
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Introduction: Public Secrets and the Archives of Black Internationalism
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 83–86.
Published: 01 November 2024
... group of scholars and activists, their lives and work remain underexplored. For example, in the Netherlands, where the author writes, it was not until the founding of the Black Archives in Amsterdam in 2016 that the Huiswouds would become part of broad-scale discussions about anticolonial traditions...
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Afterword: The Black Archives and the Archive of Black Marxism
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 157–162.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Minkah Makalani This afterword takes up some of the conceptual and historiographical concerns raised in the special section on Hermina and Otto Huiswoud. By examining the work of the Black Archives in Amsterdam, which holds the Huiswouds’ personal papers and book collection, the author argues...
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Against Type: Reading Desire in the Visual Archives of Dominican Subjects
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 144–160.
Published: 01 July 2018
... at the time. Whatever details the photograph contains suffice to encompass the entire typology of a “Negro” from the Dominican Republic. Or, perhaps, another place. Folders in US archives cataloged as containing photographs of Dominicans frequently include stray images of Puerto Ricans, Haitians, Cubans...
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Schomburg, Futurity, and the Precarious Archives of Self
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 111–119.
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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The Archive and the Repertoire in Roshini Kempadoo's Ghosting
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 110–125.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Marta Fernández Campa This essay highlights the role of archives, archival research, and integration of archival records in contemporary Caribbean visual artwork that evokes and reimagines unevenly recorded historical processes/moments. It also suggests the defining role of this approach...
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Against “Cultures of Hiatus”: History and the Archive in the Political Thought of John La Rose
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 39–54.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Chris Moffat This essay examines the relationship between a radical politics and the institution of the archive through a history of the George Padmore Institute (GPI), a community archive attached to New Beacon Books in London. Focusing on the life and thought of John La Rose (1927–2006...
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“Our own gayful rest”: A Postcolonial Archive
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 46–59.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Kanika Batra This article examines a privately published newsletter, The Jamaica Gaily News , in circulation from 1978 to 1984, as an archive of gay and lesbian community building initiated by the Gay Freedom Movement (GFM). Contending that recent efforts of organizations like the Jamaica Forum...
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Caribbean Subjectivity and the Colonial Archive
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 145–156.
Published: 01 February 2008
... historicity to the black population, ever unproblematically yield `black history'? Can black histories ever be built on fragile postcard infrastructures?” Small Axe Incorporated 2008 Caribbean Subjectivity
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Beth Fowkes Tobin
Ab s t r a c t : This essay takes up...
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Defending the Dead, Confronting the Archive: A Conversation with M. NourbeSe Philip
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 63–79.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Patricia Saunders Small Axe Incorporated 2008 Defending the Dead, Confronting
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Patricia Saunders
Law and poetry both share an inexorable concern with language—the “right” use of the “right” words,
phrases or even marks...
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Dub Poetry as a Black Atlantic Body-Archive
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 65–83.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Phanuel Antwi Rereading dub poetry under the pressures of and with the resources of black feminist and queer theory, and treating the practice of dub poetry as a production of a sound archive, one that embodies and aurally animates the intimacies of the black Atlantic, this essay highlights...
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Caribbean Studies, Archive Building, and the Problem of Violence
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 27–42.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Deborah A. Thomas This essay discusses the process of field formation within Caribbean studies in relation to the building of archives, challenging Eurocentric conceptualizations of history and history making as well as counterdominant tropes about the region and the people who have inhabited...
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Archive as Offering: Haiti and Historical Possibility
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 1–13.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Grace L. Sanders Johnson This essay tells the story of Estrea Jean Gilles, a nineteen-year-old girl who was killed by Marines during the US occupation of Haiti (1915–34). With the crash described as an “unavoidable” accident and the documents cataloged under “miscellaneous,” Estrea’s archived life...
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“An Archive of Loose Leaves”: An Interview with Frank Birbalsingh
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 104–118.
Published: 01 November 2019
... Archives and Special Collections at York University Libraries is named after her. 19 Frank Birbalsingh, “Edgar Mittelholzer: Moralist or Pornographer?,” Journal of Commonwealth Literature 4, no. 1 (1969): 88–103. 20 Patrick White, an Australian writer, won the Nobel Prize in Literature...
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Rastafari, the Transnational Archive, and Postcolonial Caribbean Intellectual History
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 116–131.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Monique A. Bedasse; Aaron Kamugisha This essay argues for an approach to postcolonial Caribbean intellectual history that moves beyond the national archive to rely on a globally dispersed archive. It uses Rastafari repatriation to Tanzania to highlight the intellectual history of the movement...
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“Freak Letters”: Tracing Gender, Race, and Diaspora in the Panama Canal Archive
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 34–56.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Joan Flores-Villalobos This essay explores the archival presence of West Indian women in the archives of the Isthmian Canal Commission, the biggest repository of original documents regarding the construction of the Panama Canal. Using a 1909 photograph of a nude black West Indian woman found...
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The Caribbean Scorpion: The Saint-Barthélemy Archive and Swedish Colonial Amnesia
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 53–66.
Published: 01 July 2020
... and are now held in France. Examining the history of this archive that stands as a metaphor for Swedish colonial amnesia, this essay discusses the reluctance in Sweden to recognize a past that goes against a self-image untainted by slavery and colonialism. The essay also discusses a project that aims to open...
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Published: 01 March 2025
Figure 4 Iris Kensmil, Archiving Future History , 2017. Pastel and charcoal on paper, 89.4 × 49.2 in. (227 × 125 cm.). Collection of the Black Archives, Amsterdam. Photograph by Gert Jan van Rooij
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Figure 10. Keisha Scarville, Untitled #7 , from Mama's Clothes series, 2016. Archival inkjet print, 24 × 36 in. Location: Buxton, Guyana. Courtesy of the artist © Keisha Scarville
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Figure 11. Keisha Scarville, Untitled #3 , from Mama's Clothes series, 2015. Archival inkjet print, 24 × 36 in. Location: Brooklyn, New York. Courtesy of the artist © Keisha Scarville
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