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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. As Wynter notes, while Man overrepresents itself as though it were the human, it is, in fact, only a specific way...
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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
... and fruitful difference. Thus these novels, I contend, are his attempts to theorize the Caribbean island-space in service of a liberatory project. This Island Now and View from Coyaba reveal Abrahams’s theorizing of the Caribbean as the literal and figurative space from which black liberation can...
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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. In her...
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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 (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 (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. Ultimately, this essay is a meditation on the racial-sexual body—the territory of the black...
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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.” This notion...
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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 (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 181–190.
Published: 01 March 2022
... not be rooted in, or neatly aligned with, a broader collective ethos of Black liberation or reparative politics. Thus, in seeking to take seriously the reparative claims advanced by his interlocutors, Lewis is forced to move beyond normative and ethical notions of what reparations ought to entail: I wrote...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 206–217.
Published: 01 November 2020
... presence in Montreal and its efforts to address questions of Pan-African liberation, but she also highlights the gender-exclusivity of the speeches and how the speakers seemed to be addressing only black men. Her essay begins by putting the black Canadian experience in the context of the Canadian state’s...
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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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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 228–238.
Published: 01 November 2020
...-too-long opening essay, “The Dialect of Liberation: The Congress of Black Writers at 50—and Beyond.” 1 In it I attempt to situate the congress within its historical context and the historical-political period that the event embodies, while reflecting on its legacy. My comments will largely...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 55–75.
Published: 01 March 2015
... Cuba's support of black liberation movements abroad formed an integral part of its foreign policy. In this sense, although Guillén Landrián's Coffea arábiga is not the only text from the period to suggest that the Castro government's racial discourse may contribute to the continuation of racial...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 191–193.
Published: 01 March 2018
... Atlantic. She is also working on a monograph that explores how artists, intellectuals, and militants in Haiti during the 1960s conceptualized black liberation and revolution while struggling against global capitalism under the US-backed regime of François Duvalier. C elia B ritton is Emeritus...