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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 160–170.
Published: 01 November 2018
... the ghostly referent for inequalities facing nonblack children. Poor, disabled, English-language learners and students of color are, generally, more often talked about as suffering “like” black children. Black children are both the spectacle and the specters of educational discourse and juvenile justice...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 140–150.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Régine Michelle Jean-Charles This essay takes two images of Haitian girls in Christina Sharpe’s In the Wake: On Blackness and Being as a point of departure to reflect on the iconography of Haitian suffering. It argues that Sharpe’s claim that the Haitian girl in the photo taken in the aftermath...
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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 (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 181–190.
Published: 01 March 2022
.... To move toward a progressive politics of change requires sitting in the liminal spaces, cracks, and fissures created through the anti-Black calculus of racial capitalism to reimagine new and alternate possibilities. Black sufferation, then, requires transcending a world that is the condition of Black...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 119–123.
Published: 01 October 2008
... Césaire’s poetics is one
of volcanoes and eruptions; it is torn from the tangles of consciousness, sailing the waves
coursing out of black suffering, with at moments a surprising tenderness of spring water and
a clamor of joy and jubilation.
At times the French reader might reproach him for a lack...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): vii–x.
Published: 01 March 2012
... Emancipation?
repetitive death: a plaintive morning with no hint of clemency about the judicial weather; the
slightly stiffening signifier of black suffering and white vengeance punctuating the grammatical
space between the enslaved onlookers’ heaving, fearful apprehension and the cane’s...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 175–186.
Published: 01 July 2020
.... In the United States, poor blacks suffered dehumanizing exploitation by Wall Street, “white big business,” and the “rising Negro bourgeoisie,” whose condition of possibility was the subjection of the black working class. 2 The exacerbation of these conditions by rigid racial barriers, disenfranchisement...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 15–27.
Published: 01 March 2021
... have suggested; rather, he is championing black thought and practices as models for the English lower classes. By telling enslaved people to “take warning” from the sufferings of the European poor, Wedderburn appears to assert, like white proslavery writers, that the British lower classes were...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 108–118.
Published: 01 July 2022
... in the United States and the Caribbean, respectively, challenge the over-representation of Black suffering and center the ways Black women and Black queer people more broadly have built community, fed their desires, and chosen to live otherwise in environments where others have only seen darkness and lack...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 205–224.
Published: 01 November 2015
... Scenes of Subjection , which peels back from the spectacle of black suffering, refusing to reproduce the formerly enslaved Frederick Douglass's infamous account of his aunt Hester's beating in the 1845 Narrative of the Life . Bound to Appear does not perform a similar gesture, given its investment...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 1–14.
Published: 01 November 2023
... they were bound. She maintains that their coerced affect served both to ease the enslavers’ discomfort with Black suffering and to confirm the organizing principles of White supremacy, “[making] the captive body the vehicle of the master’s power and truth.” 3 Mounting racial tension in Saint-Domingue...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 152–163.
Published: 01 July 2019
... In this Western episteme, Calvin Warren holds, “Black being [is] pure function, metaphysical utility, nothing more. It is the function of bearing the nothing of metaphysics, black as formless form, that is unbearable and also the crux of black suffering.” However, as Warren is careful to point out, “Black...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 129–145.
Published: 01 March 2016
.... 25 Black suffering is an overlooked phenomenon of our contemporary world, angrily denied by many, a victim of a version of historical amnesia and bad faith that we give the term antiblack racism . This “long and sustained agony of black experience” would find its zenith in a contemporary site...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 163–175.
Published: 01 July 2022
... White America over Feliciano’s “Browning” of the national anthem. And it is symptomatic for that very same reason: Muñoz’s argument implicitly and explicitly must rely on Black suffering in slavery’s afterlife in order to lend gravitas to the Brown feeling that constitutes the shared sensorium...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 128–141.
Published: 01 October 2008
... with black suffering
in the Caribbean ideology (or the poetics) of negritude also represents another manifestation
of redirected energy resulting from diversion” (Caribbean Discourse, 24). Glissant concludes
rightly that “Césaire’s negritude poetry will come into contact with the liberation movement...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 134–149.
Published: 01 March 2019
... still reveal the primary ethical and semantic influence of the Bible on new world black cultures.” 2 Having emerged in Jamaica in the 1930s, few could have predicted that within four decades, Rastafari would have gripped black Britain, a demographic that found common cause with the Jamaican sufferer...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 191–204.
Published: 01 March 2022
... market vendors, where difficulty in the market was the result of collective failure. Jovan Scott Lewis, “A So Black People Stay: Bad-Mind, Sufferation, and Discourses of Race and Unity in a Jamaican Craft Market,” Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 20, no. 2 (2015): 327–42. 40...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 1–18.
Published: 01 October 2006
... church and state. They form loops, tie the womb . . . to stop the birth of
the children . . . to keep the population low and ignorant cause we see the blood banks, the Red
Cross, sucking the blood of the sufferers everyday.
Poor black people living in a strange land. They say...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 163–168.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Patricia Noxolo In a discussion of Jovan Scott Lewis’s Scammer’s Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica (2020), the book is considered as ethnography written from “inside the circle” (Sadiya Hartman) of a generation of young Black men brought up in Jamaica. Nonetheless, Lewis shows genuine...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 61–79.
Published: 01 June 2006
... meaning of one who endures pain, injury, or distress, in Rastafari
sofra further denotes a black person—an African or Ethiopian—who has unjustly suffered
the loss of humanity and power under oppression by Babylon. Sofrin is thus never an unlucky,
accidental, or meaningless event...
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