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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 133–150.
Published: 01 March 2002
...Tracy Fisher Small Axe Incorporated 2002 Black Women, Politics, Nationalism
and Community in London
Tracy Fisher
articular historical moments often enable us to understand contemporary move-
ments and issues. Specifi cally, they are critical in understanding...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 116–139.
Published: 01 March 2003
...Wigmoore Francis Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century
Perspectives on Women in the Discourses
of Radical Black Caribbean Men
Wigmoore Francis
INTRODUCTION
t work in the deliberations of black radical thinkers in the nineteenth- and early...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 1–15.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Warren Harding This essay argues for a comparative approach to studying and reading Black Caribbean women’s poetry. In particular, it focuses on the works of Cuban Soleida Ríos and Tobagonian Canadian M. NourbeSe Philip in their publications at the close of the 1980s. The essay asks, How does...
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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)): 1–13.
Published: 01 November 2022
... guides this study of transnational practices of anti-Black violence and accounts for the possibilities of Black women’s futures beyond their record of disappearance. Naming the layered applications, quotidian quality, and refusals of physical, psychological, and archival violence during the US occupation...
FIGURES
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 128–142.
Published: 01 November 2020
....” Newspaper articles, unpublished interviews, and other texts reveal that Bailey used the center to articulate a vision of working-class black ladyhood that advanced black women’s sense of racial dignity by valorizing elitist, patriarchal narratives at work in 1950s Jamaica. In doing so, Bailey ultimately...
Journal Article
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 (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 206–217.
Published: 01 November 2020
... as a serious political framework for defeating both racism and colonialism, all the speakers were male. This essay critiques the masculinist politics of Black Power at the congress and analyzes how Austin navigates the absence of women’s voices among the congress’s speakers. Stokely Carmichael’s...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 34–56.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Joan Flores-Villalobos This essay explores the archival presence of West Indian women in the archives of the Isthmian Canal Commission, the biggest repository of original documents regarding the construction of the Panama Canal. Using a 1909 photograph of a nude black West Indian woman found...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 18–33.
Published: 01 November 2019
... at addressing gendered violence continue to emphasize economic equity and thus full participation in capitalist production. What these measures obfuscate is how so-called colonial modernity and capitalism rely on and function through the gendered violation of black women’s bodies, thereby entrenching...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 65–80.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Tracy Robinson; Deborah A. Thomas In Jamaica in the 1940s and 1950s, prominent women and women’s organizations led a notorious campaign to promote mass weddings. The campaign targeted working-class black Jamaicans living together in long-term heterosexual relationships and was aimed at improving...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 87–103.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of his collaborations, particularly with radical women thinkers. Even though the 1967 play stages women’s participation more than the earlier version, in his 1971 lectures James fails to address how attention to women, like attention to black masses, changes the way the revolution can...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 175–184.
Published: 01 March 2016
... studies, not only toward sound studies but toward feminist studies. Vazquez's work, alongside that of Edwin Hill, Shana Redmond, and Tsitsi Jaji (among others), pushes black cultural studies in new directions via feminist inquiry and methodologies, as well as via the basic inclusion of women as subjects...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 171–180.
Published: 01 November 2018
... reprises her discussion of an ordinary note of care and her readings of some of the images of black girls and women that appeared in In the Wake . Sharpe then expands her attention to questions of care as theory and practice both in In the Wake and in her current book project, Black. Still. Life...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 159–171.
Published: 01 March 2018
... welcome interventions is its lengthy engagement with two women whose work on the human and its others is indispensable: Sylvia Wynter and Donna Haraway. As the Internet meme “Did you cite a black woman today?” makes clear, it remains all too rare that anything approaching gender and racial balance...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 132–141.
Published: 01 March 2020
..., the devaluation of black women, and the emasculation of black men. 22 As we stand strong with the global, grassroots Black Lives Matter movement, Valdés reminds us that regardless of our achievements, our work continues to push forward Schomburg’s three main conclusions: that peoples of African descent...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 March 2003
... ourselves where they are to fi nd cultured wives. We forget that cultured
families constitute a cultured race and that a cultured race is an equal race. e elevation of [black]
women to equality with [their] white counterparts is the Condition Sine Qua Non of the elevation
of the Negro...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 217–229.
Published: 01 March 2009
... politics, she found ways to reshape it. As I argue in Left of Karl
Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones, Jones’s politics expanded Marx-
ism to account for black women, people of color, and African Caribbean migrants to Europe.
So great was her impact that her burial to the left...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 203–216.
Published: 01 March 2009
... and complexity) by black women writing during the same period as Jones’s
activism, a period that predates the black feminist movement; they created a body of work
that is in its earliest formulations already diasporic and transnational. I am thinking here of
the literary contributions...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 1–17.
Published: 01 March 2018
... was positioned in such a way as to signal the erasure of boundaries, as writers alleged that black women engaged in unregulated sexual congress, gave birth in public places, might easily bury or abandon live children who encumbered them, and, in any event, barely interrupted their work lives to attend...
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