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Community Building through Creative Placemaking in Bristol, England
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 49–62.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Donna M. E. Banks This essay highlights community murals as a potent tool in creative placemaking as they foreground overlooked narratives and weave them into the larger public discourse. While scholars have noted the importance of history and race in creative placemaking discourse, this essay’s...
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in Albums of Inclusion: The Photographic Poetics of Caribbean Chinese Visual Kinship
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Published: 01 July 2018
Figure 1 Albert Chong, Addressing the Chinese-Jamaican Business Community , 1992. Gelatin silver print, 30 × 40 in.
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Translation, Political Community, and Black Internationalism: Some Comments on Brent Hayes Edwards's The Practice of Diaspora
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 112–119.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Michael Hanchard Small Axe Incorporated 2005 Translation, Political Community, and Black
Internationalism: Some Comments on Brent
Hayes Edwards’s The Practice of Diaspora
Michael Hanchard
rent Edwards’s Th e Practice of Diaspora is an important text, expanding and com...
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Julia de Burgos and the Mourning of Community
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 203–208.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Jossianna Arroyo This review essay focuses on a critical reading of Vanessa Pérez-Rosario's book Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon with the aim to shed light on these following questions: How can we read the writing of community in the work of Julia de Burgos? And to what...
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Black Women, Politics, Nationalism and Community in London
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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
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articular historical moments often enable us to understand contemporary move-
ments and issues. Specifi cally, they are critical in understanding...
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The Blues Matrix: Cultural Discourses and Community in Erna Brodber's Louisiana
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 103–118.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Rae Ann Meriwether In this essay, Meriwether argues that Erna Brodber's representation of Vodou, spiritism, and blues music in her novel Louisiana illuminates a shared praxis among Afro-diasporic subjects that forms the basis of their viable political community. Using Houston A. Baker Jr.'s theory...
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Kith and Kin: The Making of Queer Communities
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 147–155.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of exclusion within Trinidadian society and its queer communities facilitate the women’s formation of kin and kin-like bonds. In Trinidad, the term friend has multivalence, suggesting a sexual relationship, an inevitable betrayal, a confidante, or a go-between. Finally, the essay draws on other models...
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Anticolonial Radicals in Different Registers: On Otto and Hermina Huiswoud’s Black Communism
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 87–109.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., the infrastructure of the Comintern enabled the Huiswouds to champion anticolonial and anti-racist causes. Following the war, the Huiswouds championed anticolonial nationalist causes, though without abandoning international solidarity and the critique of economic exploitation. The shift from international Communism...
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Caribbean Voices and the Communicative Failure of the West Indies Federation
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 87–95.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Glyne Griffith This essay argues that the short-lived West Indies Federation (1958–62) was not only undermined by the failure of the regional intelligentsia to comprehensively communicate a narrative of regionalism to the majority of the archipelago’s peoples but also further compromised by the BBC...
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Future Impossible Communities
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 96–102.
Published: 01 March 2020
... to what A. J. Seymour, following James, describes as the “imaginative record” of society. 17 Thus the community as “un-imagined” is only possible from its margins and from the work of the literary imagination. Here, Donnell’s and Rivera’s essays have a point in common: it is not the political futurity...
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Rastafari, Communism, and Surveillance in Late Colonial Jamaica
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 63–84.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., The Cold War and the Jamaican Left , 46. The assertion of a link between Rastafari and Marxism was also made in The Ras Tafari Community of Kingston, Jamaica , 25–26. 69 Trevor Munroe, Jamaican Politics: A Marxist Perspective in Transition (Kingston: Heinemann, 1990), 130. 68 Richard Hart...
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Communal Style: Indo-Caribbean Women's Jewelry
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 112–122.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Joy Mahabir Styles of Indo-Caribbean jewelry created during indentureship have been continually reproduced up to the present. Exploring the demand and desire for these styles, this essay suggests that there is a communal aesthetic underlying the production of the jewelry, influenced...
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Unruly Diasporas: Memory, Disaster, and Belizean Migration
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 63–80.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Nicole D. Ramsey This essay examines how memory and diasporic community formation serve as tools for Afro-Belizeans in the United States to preserve their histories amid colonial and postcolonial contexts and natural disasters. Utilizing autoethnography and testimonials from Belizean women...
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“Our own gayful rest”: A Postcolonial Archive
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 46–59.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Kanika Batra This article examines a privately published newsletter, The Jamaica Gaily News , in circulation from 1978 to 1984, as an archive of gay and lesbian community building initiated by the Gay Freedom Movement (GFM). Contending that recent efforts of organizations like the Jamaica Forum...
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Luisa Capetillo and the Counter-Republic of Letters
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 112–120.
Published: 01 November 2022
.... It was (and still operates as) a transnational intellectual community and means of communications between those that were cast outside Western modernity—that is, most of the world’s population. This essay explores how Luisa Capetillo became one of the many individuals who actively participated in the creation...
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At the Crossroads of Many Worlds: Marilyn Houlberg and Arts Patronage in Haiti
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 60–78.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of the exhibitions Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou (1995) and In Extremis: Death and Life in Twenty-First-Century Haiti (2012). In her commitment to support the creative endeavors of artists living in historically marginalized communities in urban Haiti, Houlberg blurred cultural and professional boundaries, raising...
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On Ecstatic-Aesthetic Universality—In Zong!
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 17–34.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Daniel Benjamin This essay argues that M. NourbeSe Philip’s 2008 book-length poem Zong! offers aesthetic experience as an undetermined exposure toward communality. As readers, we are not merely consuming the poem, which emerges from Philip’s reading of a 1781 court decision regarding a slave...
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Disrepair, Distress, and Dispossession: Barbuda after Hurricane Irma
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 133–146.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Natasha Lightfoot The crisis unleashed in Barbuda by Hurricane Irma in 2017 followed centuries of neglect by the British colonial state and then by the postcolonial government of its sister island, Antigua. Barbuda developed customary communal-land tenure as a result of its peculiarities in slavery...
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Floating Islands: Spectatorship and the Body Politic in the Traveling Subjectivities of John Edgar Wideman and Edwidge Danticat
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 22–38.
Published: 01 November 2011
... denied social (i.e., class) mobility, can speak a consciousness freed from marginalization that remains, to varying degrees, part of the community of origin (an ethnic or “racial” group), even as the border crossings they effect provide them with purchase within the economy of a society that largely...
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Inter-Asia Journal Work
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 106–114.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Kuan-Hsing Chen Journals have played a central role in the formation of intellectual communities throughout Asia since modern times. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies : Movements , launched in 2000, is no exception, except that it has attempted to connect with local intellectual circles and to build...
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