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in The Clandestine Philosophy of Graffiti in Port-au-Prince
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2021
Figure 7 PetroCaribe stencil with crying girl, by Francisco Silva, Christophe Avenue, Port-au-Prince, 2020. Photograph by Adler Pierre
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in The Clandestine Philosophy of Graffiti in Port-au-Prince
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2021
Figure 8 PetroCaribe stencil with a noose, by Francisco Silva, Christophe Avenue, Port-au-Prince, 2020. Photograph by Adler Pierre
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in The Clandestine Philosophy of Graffiti in Port-au-Prince
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2021
Figure 9 PetroCaribe graffiti mural, by Jerry Rosembert Moïse, Charles Sumner Avenue, Port-au-Prince, 2017. Courtesy of the artist
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 173–180.
Published: 01 March 2014
... be. Reflecting on the limited direct concern with the state that Caribbeanist anthropology as a whole has displayed historically, the essay suggests a number of avenues for productively studying the everyday life of the state, including a more explicit consideration of the active role that governed populations...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 78–86.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Karwan Fatah-Black This essay explores the renewed attention for Anton de Kom and the ways this engagement revisits older questions about his life and work and opens new avenues for inquiry. This renewed interest has led to new forms of appropriation: the use of his likeness and his name...
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in The Clandestine Philosophy of Graffiti in Port-au-Prince
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2021
Figure 10 “Return the funds so that Haitians can truly live like humans.” PetroCaribe graffiti, unknown artist, Christophe Avenue, Port-au-Prince, 2020. Photograph by Adler Pierre
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in The Clandestine Philosophy of Graffiti in Port-au-Prince
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2021
Figure 12 “We Can’t Breathe” graffiti, by Jerry Rosembert Moïse, Collège Saint Louis de Bourdon, John Brown Avenue, Pétionville, 7 June 2020. Photograph by Nadia Todres
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 138–142.
Published: 01 July 2015
... above the hand-laid stone wall that secures my house from the street. My wife, Tressa, hates the wall. She says it cut us off and locks us in from the beauty of our avenue. I disagree. We need the wall for privacy and security. Vagrants, men with mud-caked soles and shreds for clothes, frequently...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 63–88.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Figure 7 PetroCaribe stencil with crying girl, by Francisco Silva, Christophe Avenue, Port-au-Prince, 2020. Photograph by Adler Pierre ...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): vii–x.
Published: 01 March 2021
... to conduct that interview, was the story of the Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM)—how to think about it as a postcolonial intervention into what he had later called the “social arts.” I had pursued other avenues to the story, but to no avail. I had once telephoned Andrew Salkey in Amherst, Massachusetts...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 115–122.
Published: 01 July 2016
..., insulated coveralls and an aviator hat, Nari Ward settles himself into the restricted space of the Crusader and (assisted by cameraman Zack Fabri) pulls out onto Fredrick Douglass Avenue from his studio on 141st Street and purposefully shuffles through the city traffic up to 145th Street. He makes a right...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 243–254.
Published: 01 July 2013
..., this photographic project was conceived as an avenue of understanding the practice and a means of attempting to highlight a certain kind of beauty where many see none. While photographing the small group of adolescents pictured here, I questioned their motivations for bleaching. The majority couldn't give...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 179–187.
Published: 01 November 2017
... public is familiar: In the early morning hours of 5 July 1953, two New York City police officers spotted a figure on the ground near the corner of Fifth Avenue and 106th Street in East Harlem. As they approached, they saw the body of a woman with bronze-colored skin. Once a towering woman at five...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 98–111.
Published: 01 November 2022
... Rican Joan of Arc,” otherwise Luisa Capetillo, is still without recruits for her army, by which she hopes to emancipate women from such prudish institutions as marriage and skirts. Signorita Capetillo still is wearing her trousers, however, and exposing as much of them to Fifth avenue eyes and zephyrs...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 38–54.
Published: 01 March 2014
...—and, by extension, Caribbean: Crossroads —implicitly encompassed or displaced. Across the East River, at the upper end of Museum Mile on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, El Museo del Barrio (situated next to the Museum of the City of New York) is housed in the Heckscher Building—donated in 1920 to the Society...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 37–43.
Published: 01 March 2020
... imperial designs to control the region. From the late nineteenth century onward, a movement in favor of federation as an avenue for self-government and political autonomy flourished between the West Indies, West Indian expatriates, and other black diaspora intellectuals in Harlem and London. Although...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 194–196.
Published: 01 November 2019
...-Caribbean women s writing and Caribbean anticolonial thought, politics, and aesthetics. Her work examines how the management of the soundscape through noise abate- ment laws and public discourses condemning noise has served as a crucial avenue of racial and colonial governance in both the pre...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 80–88.
Published: 01 July 2019
..., telling us where we begin & where we are allowed to end. Maimed or wing’d—empire: the great neutralizer of the body. iv. The grammar of loss: sugar in the raw . Each brown packet piled into a Brooklyn coffee tin on Seventh Avenue. Mispronounced names markings on skin/traced to a place only...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 165–172.
Published: 01 July 2014
... on the bed. Death does things to the body. Back then he always wore a black jacket and took my bags from me so I could keep up with him as he stretched his legs down the avenue. We were always late because he never came home early enough and I would wait up until I heard him open the grill. And he never woke...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): vii–x.
Published: 01 November 2023
... battering storms in the complex business of book publishing. In 1991 he founded the independent publishing house Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, which continues to sustain his radical vision of intellectual autonomy. For me, visiting the TPH bookshop on Samora Avenue in the middle of the city was to be embraced...
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