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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 28–46.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Sarah Phillips Casteel While interned by the Nazis in Belgium and Bavaria during World War II, the little-known Surinamese artist Josef Nassy (1904–76) created a series of paintings and drawings documenting his experiences and those of other black prisoners. Nassy’s artworks uniquely register...
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in Making History Visible: Caribbean Artist Josef Nassy’s Visual Diary of Nazi Internment
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 March 2021
Figure 10 “Two survivors prepare food outside the barracks. The man on the right, presumably, is Jean (Johnny) Voste, born in Belgian Congo, who was the only black prisoner in Dachau.” Photographer unknown. Dachau, Bavaria, Germany, May 1945. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 152–161.
Published: 01 November 2014
...,” to reuse Buffon's words, because this is still how white supremacist heteropatriarchy imagines any black woman who belies white masculinity's impenetrability. CeCe McDonald was held in a level-four, close-security men's prison, the Minnesota Correctional Facility at St. Cloud. Built in 1889...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 144–152.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Randi Gill-Sadler This review essay on Laurie R. Lambert’s Comrade Sister: Caribbean Feminist Revisions of the Revolution (2020) considers the narrative and rhetorical strategies that Black women political figures use in their memoirs to represent US imperial presence and violence in the aftermath...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 164–173.
Published: 01 November 2022
... it was released, and years earlier I had read but decided not to write about Coard’s prison diary, US War on One Woman: My Conditions of Imprisonment in Grenada . 3 My reasons then were the same as they were in 2020. Too complicated. Coard—the minister for women’s affairs in the People’s Revolutionary...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 178–187.
Published: 01 November 2014
.... Hate caused fires to start, glass to break, guns to kill, clubs to hit, dogs to chase and bite. The dogs were big. They were German shepherds, not the blue tick or red bone hounds used to scent out black slaves and then prisoners. The eyes of the white men tracked me. But not just their eyes...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 171–180.
Published: 01 November 2018
... by the state (many states, any state), which imagines and enacts care for the poor, the black, the trans, the queer, the migrant, the vulnerable as prison cell, grave, mental institution, prison-school, poisoned air and water, abandonment, extraction, “tender-age shelters,” and “baby jails.” 10 I wanted...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 143–165.
Published: 01 November 2012
... relatively low, at 312 dead, Okeechobee’s
estimated 2,500 dead made it one of the worst hurricanes in Florida’s history. The racial
ecology of the catastrophe, characterized by a disproportionate death toll among the black
migrant workers in the low-lying areas around...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 1–18.
Published: 01 October 2006
... wood ceiling. The walls are frescoed with dramatic portraits of black saints painted by
Dunstan St. Omar. These images, which St. Omar painted in advance of a visit by Pope John
Paul II in 1985, are arresting. They are slung together with pained, dramatically emphasized
eyes which...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 15–44.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Robert A. Hill Although little studied or understood, the black impostor occupies an important place in the history of the African diaspora. The present essay examines the imposture of Prince Thomas Mackarooroo, aka Prince Ludwig Menelek of Abyssinia, as an avatar of Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 119–143.
Published: 01 March 2012
... (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), 35–82.
3 See Richard J. Powell, Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), for a
more extensive historical and theoretical discussion of black portraiture.
4 Saidiya Hartman, Scenes...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): v–x.
Published: 01 September 2004
...,
visual art, and reviews.
small axe
Number 16 September 2004
Caribbean Locales and Global Artworlds
Guest edited by Annie Paul and Krista A. Thompson
CONTENTS
Introduction: Caribbean Locales/Global Artworlds
Annie Paul and Krista A. Thompson v
“Black...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 180–190.
Published: 01 July 2014
... of other black diasporas. However, this rejection can only occur if the analytics of blackness remains ensconced in the realm of the empirical (map) as opposed attempting to understand how Western supremacy resolutely maintains black subjects in the prison quarters of the not-quite-human or nonhuman. 15...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 162–177.
Published: 01 November 2014
... be found where the question of political reform, if not revolution, makes itself felt in relation to the law and its transformative power. Scrutinizing Supreme Court decisions in the Bush-Obama era and their complicity in “curtailing the constitutional rights of prisoners,” for instance, triggers...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 129–145.
Published: 01 March 2016
... agony of black experience” would find its zenith in a contemporary site combining terror and captivity. 26 “The ghettoes and prisons of today's North America are the new forms of the plantation archipelago,” Wynter claims. “The new forms of the plantation archipelago are not, as were the old forms...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 138–151.
Published: 01 November 2014
... of her mother's language for herself and for others who need it. “Is there an afterlife of ostracism? … [In] the words of people who have been exiled to the solitary holds of our prison system … we hear the vital remains, the accountability, intelligence, and consciousness of persons who, though...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 1–15.
Published: 01 November 2013
..., that calls forth the prison, the city, and so forth. These contradictions keep in place, to borrow from Kara Keeling, “common memory images” that are habitually called forth to construct blackness as silent, suffering, and perpetually violated, just as it attempts to erase the ways antiblack violence...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 186–204.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Stephen Best Huey Copeland's Bound to Appear: Art, Slavery, and the Site of Blackness in Multicultural America can be categorized as the most recent in a long line of scholarly investigations into what has come to be called “the afterlife of slavery”—the general preoccupation with establishing...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 93–104.
Published: 01 February 2008
... on Guyana's reception of Black Power. An exposition of the new documents forms the background to a broader discussion of Rodney's subsequent life and work, up to the point of his assassination in 1980. Small Axe Incorporated 2008 Seeing Darkly: Guyana,
Black Power, and Walter Rodney’s
Expulsion from...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 19–39.
Published: 01 June 2006
... in the form
of audio and visual media, the opening up of the Caribbean public sphere to more black and
female voices than ever before, urbanization and massive migrations from the country to the
city—all worked to undermine the configuration of power and authority that had supported
the literary field...
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