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Published: 01 March 2024
Figure 5 Thousands of Thousands no. 51 ; ink and bleach on paper, 4 × 4 in.
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Figure 6 Thousands of Thousands no. 176 ; ink and bleach on paper, 4 × 4 in.
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The Fact of Blackness? The Bleached Body in Contemporary Jamaica
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 34–51.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Winnifred Brown-Glaude This essay examines public discussions around skin bleaching in Jamaica and demonstrates that a discourse of pathology is a dominant frame of meaning used to explain this practice. I argue that the practice of bleaching destabilizes popular conceptions of blackness that rely...
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Blackout: Kingston 12, Jamaica
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 243–254.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Marlon James Instead of dismissing skin bleaching, this photographic project's intention is to understand both the practice and the means by which a person would attempt to ascertain some kind of beauty where many saw none. Some proclaimed it was merely a fad; others felt it elevated...
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Out of Darkness
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 123–134.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Figure 5 Thousands of Thousands no. 51 ; ink and bleach on paper, 4 × 4 in. ...
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Dread Bodies: Doubles, Echoes, and the Skins of Sound
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 191–201.
Published: 01 July 2014
... University Press, 2000). 47 Vybz Kartel, “Pretty Like a Colouring Book?,” Jamaica Journal 33, no. 3 (2011): 24–29. 48 Curtis Campbell, “Vybz Kartel Urges Youngsters to Avoid Bleaching Their Skin: Incarcerated Dancehall Star Promotes Positivity on New Track,” Jamaica Star , 29 August 2013...
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A Multispecies Caribbean: The Aesthetics of Ecological Reinvention in Art by Dhara Rivera
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 20–38.
Published: 01 March 2024
... cement and brick block, the building material of the numerous grills scattered around the island ( fig. 2 ). On a nearby wall, fourteen unframed photographs of sun-bleached barbecues curl with age, giving the viewer the sense that they are studying the carefully documented detritus of an earlier...
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Speaking in Tongues: Metapictures and the Discourse of Violence in Caribbean Art
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 119–143.
Published: 01 March 2012
... is interesting, I am perhaps more intrigued by the story of a group of
Jamaican men who decided to bleach themselves to avoid capture by the police. Their reasoning was that since the police
were looking for “dark-skinned” men they would become lighter. Until recently bleaching was associated...
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Bodies of Horror in Marlon James's The Book of Night Women and Clovis Brown's Cartoons
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 1–16.
Published: 01 November 2017
... Online, “Author Marlon James on Post-postcolonial Writers,” www.bbc.com/news/world-29723541 . 34 See “Vybz Kartel Discusses Bleaching His Skin on Hot 97,” www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9kx_HQh4OI . 33 Jamaican newspapers have cited complaints by female prostitutes that gay male prostitutes...
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Claiming an Identity We Thought They Despised: Contemporary White West Indian Writers and Their Negotiation of Race
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 93–110.
Published: 01 September 2003
... in a
class system . . . [dependent on] a past bleached from our minds” (Look Behind, p. 14). In
11. Michelle Cliff , Th e Land of Look Behind (Ithaca: Firebrand Books, 1985), 59. Subsequent references to this work
appear parenthetically in the text.
12. Michelle Cliff...
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The Alchemy of Creative Resistance
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 119–130.
Published: 01 November 2019
... block, or that remain out of public view, like the whipping post. Aseptifying unpleasant history goes that way; some items bleached will remain visible, some are removed yet remembered and others effaced and forgotten. When we look at the Danish building codes of 1747, we see traces of how race...
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Out and Bad: Toward a Queer Performance Hermeneutic in Jamaican Dancehall
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 7–23.
Published: 01 July 2011
... of the stage, only
one male dance member remains. He had been featured prominently in the video before—
sleeveless T-shirt showing off sculpted arm muscles, he is pretty-faced and dimpled, with
just a hint of skin-bleach, designer eyebrows, relaxed fade. Apprehending the unease in the
selector’s comment...
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Accessories/Accessaries; or, What's in Your Closet?
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 97–110.
Published: 01 July 2010
.... Patterson (figure 9). Her
Gangstas, Disciplez + Doily Boyz series (2009) explores the phenomenon of young dancehall
males who bleach their skin, pluck their eyebrows, and wear bling jewelry to enhance their
gangster status, employing what has been described as a “feminised aesthetic...
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White but Not Quite: Tones and Overtones of Whiteness in Brazil
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 39–56.
Published: 01 July 2009
... products
available to straighten, smoothen, soften, manage, tame, and keep kinky hair under control,
there are virtually no products for bleaching the skin in the Brazilian market. In India alone,
products designed to lighten the skin generate US$320 million per year. The influence...
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The Black/White Color Spectrum
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 141–150.
Published: 01 March 2017
... to racial hierarchization came up during class discussions, including the damage that was happening to people's skin through the culture of bleaching, the fact that some people thought this practice could help them advance socially and on the job market, and the firing of a woman for wearing dreadlocks...
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Here
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 111–119.
Published: 01 September 2003
... cleaned that house as
we would a dead body (I’ve never cleaned a dead body, but I imagine they clean it thor-
oughly), we took everything out, swept, mopped, bleached, Ajaxed, Cloroxed, and then
put all the furniture back in. But then the cleaning stopped, we let it rot, the furniture...
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In the Presence of the Past: An Afterword on Red and Black in Haiti
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 173–187.
Published: 01 November 2011
...-Claude Duvalier;
support for new presidential hopefuls; and sun-bleached pre-earthquake graffiti alternatively
praising or denouncing various parliamentarians. At a time when the apocalyptic present that
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Everything Slackens in a Wreck
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 119–143.
Published: 01 July 2022
...,” Chen recalls of when she collected the shells from the fishermen, “so I had to glove up and bleach and clean them.” The process was arduous—as was the process of carving Labyrinth : “For about a year, I had pain in my legs, I had to lean against a wall [to be able to carve].” Over that time, its...
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Racial Hierarchy and the Elevation of Brownness in Creole Nationalism
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 111–123.
Published: 01 November 2017
.... 10 Belinda Edmondson, Caribbean Middlebrow: Leisure Culture and the Middle Class (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009), 52, 84, 85. 11 Annie Paul, “No Space for Race? The Bleaching of the Nation in Postcolonial Jamaica,” in Horace Levy, ed., The African-Caribbean Worldview...
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