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Small Axe (2001) 5 (2): 66–80.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Walter Rodney Small Axe Incorporated 2001 African History in the Service
of the Black Liberation
Walter Rodney
nitially I had written a short supplementary paper to that which was to be presented
by Mr. Richard Moore.¹ * erefore, the order having been inverted, it places me...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 17–41.
Published: 01 July 2010
... violence, state destabilization, and economic collapse within the Jamaican state). Using an idea of sound as a marker of ideological projection and political possibility, this essay considers how forms of black political representation and national liberation move across geographic spaces and can represent...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 143–153.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Shanna Jean-Baptiste This essay explores the decolonial future imagined by the Black women who make up Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel’s Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire (2020). A much-needed project of historical redress, Joseph-Gabriel’s study...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 195–205.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Peter James Hudson Held at Montreal’s McGill University from 11 to 14 October 1968, the “Congress of Black Writers: Toward the Second Emancipation—the Dynamics of Black Liberation” was dubbed the largest Black Power conference ever held outside the United States. In Moving Against the System...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 132–141.
Published: 01 March 2020
... and his complex personality, as well as his relentless but gentle commitment to advancing black liberation. Following Saidiya Hartman’s strategy of “critical fabulation” to highlight previously silenced Afro-Epistemes, the author dwells on Schomburg’s childhood, life commitment, and legacies. Part...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 92–112.
Published: 01 March 2016
... reveals a particular investment in a specific way of being human and questions what such investments mean for black liberation, gender relations, and power/knowledge. 74 “Fathers Look at Roles,” Daily Nation , 31 October 2001, 23. 75 Zakia Pathak and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, “Shahbano...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 162–173.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel This response essay engages the three book discussion essays by Shanna Jean-Baptiste, Grace Sanders Johnson, and Tobias Warner on the author’s Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire (2020). Building on the speculative...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 84–101.
Published: 01 March 2021
... to be free. What was/is it about Jamaica and the Caribbean that kept Abrahams convinced of it as the space from which black liberation could be achieved? What do we do with Abrahams’s last two novels, what I call his Caribbean fiction, each set in the Caribbean? What do these novels tell us about...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 218–227.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of this moment, which include the “absented presence” of black women radicals. The essay ends with a meditation on the stakes of such a project for black Canada and its often veiled (but no less insurgent) dread-historical contributions to the global 1968 and current struggles for liberation. © 2020 Small Axe...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 154–161.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Tobias Warner Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel’s Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire (2020) models the critical possibilities of attending to the overlooked records of Black women’s political imaginations. This discussion essay explores what happens if we...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 145–156.
Published: 01 March 2024
... 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...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 47–61.
Published: 01 March 2016
... of both Marxism and the engagement by black intellectuals of the issues of labor and class. Moving beyond the presuppositions of liberal humanism, Marxism, and Black Cultural Nationalism, Wynter put forth an interpretation of the cultural forms of blacks in the Americas (both as slaves and postslavery...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 164–175.
Published: 01 March 2024
... faith, b/Black consciousness, the blues and hip-hop, bridging the aesthetic and the ethical, colonization, decolonization, double-consciousness, embodied consciousness, epistemic closure, freedom, historical erasure, joy, language, liberalism, Negritude, neoliberalism, oppression, political life...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 135–144.
Published: 01 March 2024
... genre whose relationship to suffering reflects a responsible and liberating way of existing in the world. [email protected] Gordon Lewis R. , Fear of Black Consciousness ; New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2022 ; 288 pages; ISBN 978-0374159023 (hardback) © Small Axe, Inc...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 18–33.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., it ultimately calls for an expansive Caribbean feminist politics that reckons with indigenous political subjectivities and creates awareness of black belonging beyond statist framings toward mutual liberation. 51 Logan Hennessey, “Re-placing Indigenous Territory: Villagization and the Transformation...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 131–142.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Grace L. Sanders Johnson This conversation piece celebrates Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel’s inspiring study Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire (2020) through the parallel histories of the Martinican theorist Suzanne Césaire and the Haitian intellectual...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 138–148.
Published: 01 March 2014
... to the Native Land (1939–56), the former as prefiguration of Frantz Fanon's psychoanalytical exploration of “the fact of blackness” and the latter as a transcendence of narrow identitarian affirmation announcing a liberated space: the “convocation of conquest” in which there is “room for all.” 62 Césaire...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 181–190.
Published: 01 March 2022
... the drill, Weekends are a short-lived thrill Sad to see the old slave mill, Is grinding slow, but grinding still Cup runneth over till it spill, Take until they’ve had their fill Sad to see the old slave mill, Is grinding slow, but grinding still. 11 To theorize Black liberation...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 206–217.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Austin frames the book with his introduction essay, “The Dialect of Liberation: The Congress of Black Writers at 50—and Beyond,” focusing on the historical background to the congress. Oral history is critical to Austin’s methodology, as with much of his earlier work, and Moving Against the System...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 193–202.
Published: 01 March 2009
... Communist Claudia Jones, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008;
311 pages; ISBN 978-0-8223-4116-1 (paper).
Locating the Transnational in
Postwar African American History
Kevin Gaines
In 1975, writing very much in the moment of global “Black Liberation” struggles emerging out...
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