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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 140–150.
Published: 01 November 2018
... actively center Haitian girls while recognizing the dynamics of the wake that Sharpe outlines throughout her study. As such they offer an example of what it means to imagine Haitian girlhood “otherwise.” 19 Sharpe references Frank B. Wilderson III, Red, White, and Black: Cinema and the Structure of US...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 160–170.
Published: 01 November 2018
.... In contrast to “care” and the “hold,” Sharpe positions black people engaged in “wake work” as (be)holding relations, provoking us to consider how we (be)hold black children in the wake of antiblack juvenile institutions. Copyright © 2018 Small Axe, Inc. 2018 Afro-pessimism black girlhood...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 35–52.
Published: 01 July 2020
... The incident thrust the church, respectability, black girlhood, poverty, public discourses of sexuality, and rape culture into the national spotlight. As the case captured public attention, a group of women sought to end the practices of impunity and victim-blaming that characterize national responses...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 142–151.
Published: 01 March 2020
.... As we see the advance of studies focusing on peoples of African descent in this hemisphere, we are simultaneously witnessing the continuing strength of black feminist studies to now include black girlhood studies; I hope for a similar growth within our hispanophone and lusophone contexts. It is my firm...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 1–13.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., “Occupying the Center: Haitian Girlhood and Wake Work,” Small Axe , no. 57 (November 2018): 148, 150. Jean-Charles’s title references a statement in Christina Sharpe’s In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016): “This little girl was at the beginning of this work...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 181–186.
Published: 01 November 2020
... and Hazel Carby recounted experiences of their mid-twentieth-century girlhoods in Jamaica and England, respectively. In the 1950s, family formations emerged as a principal object of social scientific inquiry in both locations: while social scientists studied the rural peasants and the urban underclass...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 242–244.
Published: 01 March 2004
...—to the radical black intellectual was bound to bring. SStewarttewart
BBrownrown
Sugar and Slate off ers powerful and vivid portraits of many places and people
encountered by the two generations of the Williams family as they retrace...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 245–247.
Published: 01 March 2004
...—to the radical black intellectual was bound to bring. SStewarttewart
BBrownrown
Sugar and Slate off ers powerful and vivid portraits of many places and people
encountered by the two generations of the Williams family as they retrace...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 171–180.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Christina Sharpe Christina Sharpe responds to engagements with In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Régine Jean-Charles, Rinaldo Walcott, and Tezeru Teshome (with K. Wayne Yang). In her response to their questions and elaborations around voice, freedom, resistance, and subjectivity, Sharpe...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 123–217.
Published: 01 March 2004
... in the context of the countryside would have been an important person
among Black people. Th en my father [Frank Williams] came to town as a child to go to
school. And eventually his other brother and his sisters came as well.
My mother’s story was a little more peculiar. When Walter...
