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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 30–45.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Rivke Jaffe This paper explores the existence of `ital chic' in Jamaica. A cross between ethical consumerism and the marketing of cool, ital chic represents an aesthetic repertoire and a commercial strategy based on Rastafari. The symbols and aesthetics of a Rastafari lifestyle, or `ital livity...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 22–39.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Richard Iton Drawing on recordings by Chic and Funkadelic, and more generally on the affective dimensions of black popular culture, this essay considers the relationship between teleological and reflexive conceptions of black politics and black political thought. Teleological approaches to black...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 94–103.
Published: 01 July 2015
... reveal: she donned bright red lips, manicured eyebrows, coiffed hair worn half down, a chic silk scarf, a double-breasted skirt suit, high heels, and dangling pearl earrings. She carried a purse with a .38 caliber pistol and a “suicide” note that read, “I didn't come here to kill but to die.” 15...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 33–44.
Published: 01 November 2010
... of publications came out, from picturesque to man-
nered chic, sometimes taking on the easy formulas of exoticism. This slippage was very clear
in the lexicon, where the nouns créolité (kuleôlusei) and creolism (kuleôlushugi) gave way to
the immoderate use of a quasi-exclusive term, creole (kuleôlu), used...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 100–112.
Published: 01 November 2013
... oppositional avatar, drafted into Hallward's ideological battle (waged on behalf of Alain Badiou) against the popularity of chic Deleuzeanism. In the following, I want to complicate the straightforward equivalence between Deleuze and Glissant that renders the latter a sort of Caribbean knock-off by examining...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 124–137.
Published: 01 November 2017
... that a new day requires a different sound. This is a sonic upgrade, parallel to the sartorial one in which Manley also plays a significant part, as she inaugurates Michael into the radical chic of karibas, Nehru suits, and shirt-jackets, sashaying up to him and playfully garbing him with a dashiki when...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 45–62.
Published: 01 June 2008
... and empires that preceded those nation-
states, and in some cases, overlapped with them. While it has become chic in some circles to
write and speak of diaspora populations—Africa, African descended, or otherwise—as com-
munities defined by their traversal of boundaries, their seemingly borderless...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 134–154.
Published: 01 November 2011
... tremble on the verge of being chic in the tony world of global art.
Perhaps the most telling witness to the cosmopolitanism of their work (and to the cosmo-
politan history of Haiti since the seventeenth century) is the forty-foot statue of Bawon Samdi
that towers over the front...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 171–187.
Published: 01 November 2024
... mother had a chic style, but it was always marred by bad cuts: the clothes she made for me always fit poorly on my small, skinny frame. Her necklines defied all the models for off-the-rack women’s fashion from that period. I know now that she was ahead of her time—way, waaaay ahead, perhaps even too far...
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Journal Article
Small Axe (2001) 5 (2): 41–59.
Published: 01 September 2001
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mentator and cofounder of AsianAvenue.com and BlackPlanet.com, is instructive. “His
evolving vision of radical chic does not rely upon the traditional fatigues of kente cloth,”
3 Code: A Style Magazine for Men of Color. - is and subsequent references are to the August 2000 and March...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 56–76.
Published: 01 July 2015
.... It managed to be both current and stylish. Audiences liked its “lady-killing, man-murdering, chic, science-fiction image” of Britain's Agent 007, making it a surprise box-office success. 20 Over the four months after it opened in London, it proved “the second best money maker in British film history,” 21...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 97–246.
Published: 01 June 2006
..., or wearing Africa symbolically. But Africa
and blackness, they don’t necessarily carry an emancipatory impulse.
RN: No, I’m with you totally. Those are outward signs, but the inward grace isn’t there. I’m with
you. Its fashion, and its chic, and let’s be honest, in the ’80s you found a bit of Rasta...
