... of normative discourses in dancehall lyrics. I offer readings of male dance crews at street dances, a comedy interlude at a dancehall club night, and a dancehall video, each of which provides the opportunity to read “the queer” in dancehall culture. © 2011 by Small Axe, Inc. 2011 Out and Bad: Toward...

..., and aporias that find their coherence in his continual call to an emerging form of transcendence. Struck by Gordon’s analysis of denial, responsibility, bad faith, and the blues, the author does not explain or summarize Gordon’s thought but rather uses it as a base for an exploration of the psychic life...

... the limits of political liberal concepts such as liberty, justice, and equality for analyzing and addressing anti-Black racism. A central concern facing Gordon is the degree to which bad faith is ignored or underexamined in political philosophy and public debates on social justice and freedom. Exploring how...

...: “Bad Friday” (1963). The other events, the Tivoli Gardens incursion of May 2010, appear in the book's epilogue, exceeding its main purview but gesturing at a new set of concerns for Thomas and exemplifying themes with which the whole book is concerned. broadly. © Small Axe, Inc. 2014 The cover...

... in Jamaica. The essay demonstrates how contestations around national identity are articulated in a repressive language of moral authority. Speakers of “good” (English) and “bad” (Jamaican) language varieties become embattled in a struggle for the control of public terrain. The essay concludes...

...Lewis R. Gordon This response essay addresses anti-Blackness and other fears of Black consciousness through discussing analyses and critiques of the author’s Fear of Black Consciousness (2022) offered by Nathalie Etoke, Terrence L. Johnson, and André Brock. Concepts under discussion include bad...

... between scholarship and autobiography, between Patwa (Jamaican/ Jumiekan ) and English. Cooper’s legacy in championing the native tongue of Jamaica—not as bad English or noise but as a capacious language for both academic discourse and creative work—is to offer multiple ways to sound authentically...

... witnessed this kind of enclosure during Bad Bunny’s performance at the Sixty-Fifth Annual Grammy Awards in 2023. 6 “Ethnonationalism feels so good.” These are the words I mouthed to my friends as we finished dancing, singing, throwing up signs to the (Afro–)Puerto Rican poetics being sung on the main...

... to the telegram departs dramatically from movie depictions of fallen soldiers’ widows who cry softly, or maybe faint, when a military officer arrives at their door with bad news. They do not engage in the type of “hysterics” that Tía did. Tía “loses it.” It is precisely this “losing it” that Ellis Neyra explores...

... carry negative connotation and refer to practices that are suspected to be “bad” or “evil.” Few people openly refer to “obeah” in St. Lucia, instead preferably using polysemous words, paraphrases, and euphemisms. Practitioners are named by the use of paraphrases and indirect references, such as “people...

... subversive practice of “badness-honor” among the poor. In Jamaica, this couplet refers to a distinct dramaturgy in which claimants to respect and social honor employ intimidation and norm-disrupting histrionics—“badness,” in popular Jamaican parlance—to affi rm their right to an honor contested...

... in communities like hers are encouraged to go forth but to also be aware of the pitfalls presented by the negativity of “bad mind” or the spiritual ambassadors of communal self-doubt. In other words, the challenges that Brodber encountered are part of the model that she now offers us...

... telling example. Euphemistically described as an “incident” and commemorated since the 1990s by community members under the rubric of “Bad Friday,” the Coral Gardens massacre was made possible soon after independence because of a decree from Prime Minister Sir Alexander Bustamante that sanctioned the use...

... to be labeled ole negar. He stood steadfastly for his own culture, his own beliefs, and to get his way he was often accused of hooliganism and indiscipline. He became out of order and went on bad. What do I mean by went on bad? I mean more than just acting badly. I mean refusing...

... we living together I hear you laugh so ugly as when I tell you that. All I see in my head is that bad-mind piece of sea lashing the rocks by Breakneck Point. No mercy. “Moons, you dreaming,” you tell me. “The only thing that will fall in place is the rotten board that we living...

... in white robes stretch out a long golden rod and touch her tongue. Since then every time you look sharp is like prophecy dropping from the sky free- sheet, and bad spirit following everybody. 1 en Pastor, who don’t like to cross a soul and believe that everybody have to make their journey, decide...

... grandmother. She would be a big grown woman now. He felt bad about that. A man should be more careful when he was a father, too. He tried to remember his ssmallmall daughter’s name but couldn’t, and this made him feel really bad. Every time he tried to aaxexe tell himself he wasn’t like...

... in the earth, another grave for you to tend; we thought he was handling it well, he could drive us home. Quickly you ushered me over, “Him can’t drive. Him soon bruk down bad, bad.” My mother drove, my...

... and linguistic orthodoxies, conventions, and hierarchies. There is a revealing moment in the introductory chapter of Noises , where she cites Bob Marley’s lyrics in “Bad Card” as a potent example of a “politics of noise” that informs marginalized Afro-Jamaican vernacular languages and cultural discourses. 4...