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in Unfinished Business: In Search of Other Women, Other Worlds
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 March 2023
Figure 1 Closing banquet of the International Congress of Philosophy, September 1944, Port-au-Prince. Facing the camera are Marie Vieux Chauvet (center) and Suzanne Césaire (far right). Courtesy of Archives Départementales de la Martinique, Schoelcher
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 206–217.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Laurie R. Lambert In Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness , David Austin continues his important work as the leading historian of 1960s black Montreal. Moving Against the System illuminates histories that are critical...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 218–227.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Bedour Alagraa This essay views David Austin’s Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness through the prism of dread history as a way of considering how this text can be understood as a chronicling of the congress while also acting...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 228–238.
Published: 01 November 2020
...David Austin Rounding out a discussion of Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness , the author engages in a dialogue with his respondents about the significance of the congress. This essay assesses the legacy of the 1968 congress...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 195–205.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Peter James Hudson Held at Montreal’s McGill University from 11 to 14 October 1968, the “Congress of Black Writers: Toward the Second Emancipation—the Dynamics of Black Liberation” was dubbed the largest Black Power conference ever held outside the United States. In Moving Against the System...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 1–14.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Yohann C. Ripert This essay investigates a moment for Caribbean knowledge production in which intellectuals, gathered in Haiti in 1944 for an International Congress of Philosophy, questioned whether to politicize knowledge or to seclude it from politics. Focusing on Aimé Césaire’s “Poetry...
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in Against Type: Reading Desire in the Visual Archives of Dominican Subjects
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 July 2018
Figure 3 “He is not being hung tho’ it looks so”; 1904–5. Photographer unknown. Hanna McCormick Collection, Prints and Photographs, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
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in Against Type: Reading Desire in the Visual Archives of Dominican Subjects
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 July 2018
Figure 1 “Come into the house honey, dat picture man’ll steal you”; 1904–5. Photographer unknown. Hanna McCormick Collection, Prints and Photographs, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
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Published: 01 November 2017
Figure 8. H.I.M. Haile Selassie presenting a gold medal to Prince Emanuel of the Ethiopia Africa Black International Congress, at Kings House, the seat of the Jamaican head of state. © 1966 The Gleaner Co. (Media) Ltd.
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in The Boundary of Light: Buried Beings and Black Sacred Geographies
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 March 2024
Figure 2 William Berryman, “View looking towards Old Harbour, Jamaica,” c.1808–16; watercolor. LC-96516472, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC (all images labeled LC are from this location)
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in Anacaona Writes Back: The Columbus Statue in Santo Domingo as a Site of Erasure
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2021
Figure 3 Joos van Winghe, “Massacre of the Queen and Her Subjects,” 1598; from Bartolomé de las Casas, Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias ( A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies ), published by Theodor de Bry. Library of Congress
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Small Axe (2001) 5 (2): 60–65.
Published: 01 September 2001
...David Austin Small Axe Incorporated 2001 Introduction to Walter Rodney
David Austin
hen the Congress of Black Writers took place in October 1968 in Montreal, the
world was in a state of perpetual turmoil and social upheaval. Reading the news-
paper headlines...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 93–104.
Published: 01 February 2008
... Relations with Independent Africa (ASCRIA), which
was then loosely allied with the ruling People’s National Congress of Prime Minister Forbes
Burnham. American officials described King as the “political boss of [the] tough African village
of Buxton and [a] radical influence among some of Burnham’s...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 91–108.
Published: 01 July 2021
... into Cuban culture; and (3) the rise of private spaces where Afro-Cuban intellectuals debated black consciousness approaches and read the works of famous Negritude, anticolonial, and Pan-Africanist thinkers came the 1968 Cultural Congress in Havana. Morera remembers that meetings between Afro-Cuban...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 97–111.
Published: 01 March 2019
...-party system was well established. Among Manley’s supporters were ardent nationalists and young people who were studying Marxism. In those ranks were Richard Hart, Arthur Henry, Frank Hill, and Ken Hill (known as the “4 H’s”), all of whom were involved in the Trades Union Congress. This group...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 124–127.
Published: 01 October 2008
... of the resurgence of will and consciousness on the part of the black race in the twentieth
century, a phenomenon that we now associate with Negritude, as concept and movement, of
which the First Congress of Negro Writers and Artists was a high point—the very congress
whose fiftieth anniversary we’re...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 162–173.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Figure 1 Closing banquet of the International Congress of Philosophy, September 1944, Port-au-Prince. Facing the camera are Marie Vieux Chauvet (center) and Suzanne Césaire (far right). Courtesy of Archives Départementales de la Martinique, Schoelcher ...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): vii–x.
Published: 01 November 2010
... the institution of Présence Africaine as the platform from
which to organize (with Léopold Senghor, Aimé Césaire, and Jacques Rabemananjara, among
others) the historic First International Congress of Black Writers and Artists at the Sorbonne,
Paris, between 19 and 22 September 1956.5 More than sixty writers...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 175–186.
Published: 01 July 2020
... Rico and the Virgin Islands,” Moore demanded economic autonomy and the immediate withdrawal of imperialist troops and institutions. 1 In his 1929 report on the Second World Congress of the League Against Imperialism, the prominent black Communist James Ford expanded Moore’s analysis, insisting...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 61–68.
Published: 01 March 2020
...,” adopted at the Second Comintern Congress in July 1920, as motivating him to join the party. 11 But they have not commented on the timing of the ABB conversion to communism a few months after Johnson’s articles in the Nation . While Lenin’s theses allowed colonial subjects like Briggs to see...
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