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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 15–31.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Melanie White This essay explores the visual cultural production of three twentieth-century Black Caribbean Central American women painters: June Beer and Judith Kain, both from the Miskitu Coast, and Iris Abrahams, from San Andrés and Providencia. Specifically, it contextualizes these artists...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 132–141.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of the essay’s purpose is to sketch the transnational community of formerly enslaved and free men and women from whom Schomburg inherited what the author calls his Maroon political consciousness. The essay also emphasizes how Valdés invites African diaspora scholars, activists, educators, artists, and so...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 89–98.
Published: 01 March 2017
... Caribbean art Caribbean performance black performance art black women artists Caribbean female body “You don't do it right,” Rosa said. The steups, the distinctive mouth movement and sound found in Trinidad, where her family is from, and throughout the Caribbean. When people suck their teeth...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 1–31.
Published: 01 September 2004
... of the early days. Edna Manley, The Fine Arts In the 1940s, as artist Edna Manley walked around an art exhibition lled with work by black Jamaican schoolchildren, she confronted several curious images. A student had created familiar enough pictures of local market women with bandanas and the tucked up...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 94–111.
Published: 01 July 2017
... then connects to the experiences of other black and brown women through the aesthetics of the project. Khan's aesthetic approach resonates with the works of Asian American artists who, according to Margo Machida, mobilize “the vernacular memories of their communities and those of other groups who have suffered...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 230–233.
Published: 01 March 2009
... (there were six triptychs created
between 1995 and 1997, four of which were destroyed) to dialogues, which are featured in
the present issue of Small Axe.
Tina Campt is associate professor of women’s studies and history at Duke University. Her
publications include Other Germans: Black...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 145–156.
Published: 01 February 2008
... and tourists, local newspaper columnists (black and white, male and female),
photographers and artists.
Thompson could have written a very different book, one more like Sheller’s, focusing
on how American and British commercial interests reshaped Jamaica and the Bahamas...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 16–34.
Published: 01 November 2013
... in a black majority culture. As her “Word-powahad image journal” makes clear, her primary identification is with that black majority among whom she grew up—“ black was di culah uv my x-istance.” Stuart Hall, in his essay “Black Diaspora Artists in Britain: Three Moments in Postwar History,” uses the term...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 57–69.
Published: 01 March 2017
... physical aspects. Already by the early twentieth century the threat of the black female body in an urban context in the United States was established. “The movement of black women between rural and urban areas and between southern and northern cities,” Hazel Carby notes, “generated a series of moral...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 110–125.
Published: 01 March 2017
... Pollard, and Maud Saulter. Further, as Kempadoo suggests in her review of Wainwright's Timed Out , published in this journal, the critical and aesthetic contributions of Caribbean and black British women artists (and interestingly, I would argue, their poetics of archiving) need to be further...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 65–83.
Published: 01 November 2015
... the creative labor of this artistic project (the ways dub poets link sound to body to place to textuality) and helps us consider the conditions under which something new in black modernity is produced. Through this reconceptualization of the art form, the essay draws attention to ways dub extends Paul Gilroy's...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 167–170.
Published: 01 October 2007
... the effects
of globalization on the spiritual practices of Indigenous and African women and women of
African descent.
Nicole Awai is a Trinidadian multi-media artist who lives and works in New York City. She
received a Master of Fine Arts degree in multi-media art at the University of South Florida...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 205–224.
Published: 01 November 2015
... of the commodity” (192), then might we not, Spillers proposes, draw a connection between the two reclining women, the French painter's prostitute and the installation artist's model, both engaged in the traffic of immaterial value and propped up by the apparition of blackness? 56 With uncanny prescience...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 143–165.
Published: 01 November 2012
... of Puerto Rico, and steeped in local specificity in South Florida—reflects the
changing taxonomy afforded the natural catastrophe. In Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes,
and Black Women in America, Melissa Harris-Perry explores the relationship established
between women and catastrophe. Harris...
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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 (2005) 9 (2): 205–208.
Published: 01 September 2005
... of the
IDEOLOGY IN region.
The volume includes an extensive introduction
BLACK WOMEN’S by the editors and essays by Antonio Benítez-
FILM AND Rojo, Derek Walcott...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 75–89.
Published: 01 March 2009
... contradictions that plague the wealthy
West. In what follows, I suggest that a number of artists have offered us some insights into
how to think about our times.
In 2006 two kinds of black histories began to emerge in Toronto. As mentioned earlier,
Boston’s Eugene Rivers arrived to offer counsel...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 134–149.
Published: 01 March 2005
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of African American women, even going so far as to juxtapose it with the less polished
artistic eff orts of Antilleans in the metropole. For example, in one of her articles in La
Dépêche africaine, discussing one black revue then wowing audiences at the Porte Saint-
Martin in Paris, Nardal...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 55–75.
Published: 01 March 2015
..., A History of the Cuban Revolution (West Sussex: Blackwell, 2011), 118–19. Similarly, Afro-Cuban director Sara Gómez's films, which tended to treat issues facing black people and women within Cuban society at large while not directly critiquing the government or its policies, were generally well received...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 195–207.
Published: 01 March 2019
... evaluated their circumstances and what might they have been thinking? The essay also examines the paratexts that have evolved from Freedom’s Mirror , specifically those that expand Ferrer’s research on the free black artist José Antonio Aponte. The Digital Aponte and Visionary Aponte projects explore...
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