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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 72–89.
Published: 01 July 2009
... fractalization of civil rights based forms of domestic social order, and equally, the new minoritarian condition of whiteness, provide apposite bases from within which to rethink race politics in an age of failed states. Small Axe Inc. 2009 Whiteness as War by Other
Means: Racial Complexity in
an Age...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 103–114.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Dominique Chancé This essay discusses Éloge de la créolité and Patrick Chamoiseau’s novels and later texts, arguing that créolité , or creoleness, is far more complex and ambiguous than its critics have hitherto assumed. It is not confined to the Creole language but can be expressed in French...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 177–184.
Published: 01 July 2015
... (our) sight, they necessarily challenge modern visual regimes not just in their representation of the other but, more fully, in their representation of the human in the world. Manchester University Press's series Rethinking Art's Histories also includes works that map “the complex temporalities...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 146–151.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Barbara Prézeau-Stephenson Small Axe, Inc. 2010 Barbara Prézeau-Stephenson
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 147–158.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Michaeline A. Crichlow This essay, in discussion of Citizenship From Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom by Mimi Sheller, underscores the need to historicize Caribbean sociocultures as complex ensembles of heterogeneous practices. It lauds efforts to sustain the investigation of the gendered...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 16–33.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Mimi Sheller Many parts of the Caribbean region are being respatialized, rescaled and reterritorialized through processes of neoliberal development, intraregional and international mobility, and complex spatial restructuring of physical infrastructures and virtual realities. Drawing...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 52–72.
Published: 01 October 2007
... the appeal of Romantic nationalism as a means of establishing national authenticity, her later work demonstrates how these norms, when transmitted to postcolonial black nationalism, displace more complex notions of national identity that take into account racial, sexual, and cultural hybridity. Small Axe...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 26–38.
Published: 01 July 2009
... Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks , the article teases out what is at stake in making US based comparisons when discussing racial dynamics in the colonial world. This article ultimately argues that only a broad and complex understanding of modernity's racial unconscious can address both the hypervisibility...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 59–77.
Published: 01 July 2011
... and destination/away/settlement societies. This emphasis has arguably restricted our comprehension of the complexity of transnational practices that connect people not just with the place they left but across sites of migration. Drawing on the example of Caribbean women who travel regularly between Toronto...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 137–147.
Published: 01 November 2009
... volumes extensively document the complex and contentious path of the post-Duvalier era in Haitian politics. These volumes together describe the invention of a post-authoritarian populist political sequence, one that after 1990 coalesced around the charismatic leadership of a previously unknown Roman...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 40–49.
Published: 01 March 2013
... of which reveal the limitations of such a framing in illuminating the complexity of her political and artistic vision. 24 Donald McKayle, Transcending Boundaries: My Dancing Life (London: Routledge, 2004), 23. 23 Pearl Primus, oral history interview, 1993, Schomburg Center for the Research...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 144–153.
Published: 01 July 2022
... that is the present. It focuses in particular on Santiago Muñoz’s Otros Usos (2014), which specifically explores Vieques, Puerto Rico. To apprehend the past that is the present requires indexing the continuity of the plantation economy, and thus its racial order, in the military complex, in the tourist economy...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 100–122.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Guno Jones Through a close reading of Anton de Kom’s Wij slaven van Suriname ( We Slaves of Surinam e), this essay explores the complex legal, symbolic, social, and political lives of differentially positioned humans in the Dutch colonial and postindependent context. Firstly, De Kom’s 1934 book...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 60–78.
Published: 01 July 2022
... questions about her roles and responsibilities within the communities of artists and religious practitioners with whom she worked. This essay addresses problems and complexities in Houlberg’s work and activities in Haiti by relying on her extensive field notes, photographs, published works, and other...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 194–202.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Richard Drayton Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972) examined, of course, how European imperialism turned Africa into a subordinate zone of the world economy. But beyond that, this essay seeks to show how Rodney explored, with Marxist and Caribbean tools, the complex problem...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 135–144.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Nathalie Etoke Lewis R. Gordon investigates myriad questions in Fear of Black Consciousness (2022). He brings out the complexity of Black consciousness and the psychological, ontological, and epistemic upheavals that it provokes in a White world. Gordon examines contradictions, paradoxes...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 130–146.
Published: 01 July 2024
... reassessment through mid-twentieth-century social sciences during demographic and industrial changes. Employing a nuanced analysis, the essay challenges historical biases to reveal the complexities of kambrada and further charts kambradanan (plural) role during the women’s liberation movement. The essay...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 73–78.
Published: 01 July 2024
... complex working out of the proverbial Jamaican woman “digging up” her own luck and thinking with her sophisticated verbal code-switching, with the materiality of her presence as a public intellectual, and with the closing of her 1993 Noises in the Blood: Orality, Gender, and the “Vulgar” Body of Jamaican...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 179–189.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Judith Rodríguez This review essay of Rocío Zambrana’s Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico (2021) illustrates Zambrana’s own intervention into “race/gender/class” hierarchies as carrying their own relations of power within her rewriting of the “plantation complex,” using the colony of Puerto...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 219–231.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of her current work in Caribbean political economy, particularly concerning figures of speculation that perpetuate the logic of the trade-plantation complex in contemporary financialized capitalism. The essay moves from the forms of economic violence generated by the link between debt and austerity...
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