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Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 February 2006
...Jorge L. Giovannetti Small Axe Incorporated 2006 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. The Elusive Organization of “Identity”:
Race, Religion, and Empire
Among Caribbean Migrants in Cuba
Jorge L...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 269–275.
Published: 01 June 2006
...Harvey Neptune Small Axe Incorporated 2006 BOOK DISCUSSION: Black Empire
Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States,
1914–1962, Michelle Stephens. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0822335514
African American Manhood...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 38–56.
Published: 01 February 2008
...,” a process that names new categories of persons but also subjects them to an articulation of disciplinary powers not of their own making. Small Axe Incorporated 2008 After Empire:
Training Lawyers as a
Postcolonial Enterprise
Mindie Lazarus-Black
Ab s t r a c t : The early...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 19–26.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Saidiya Hartman; Tina Campt Small Axe Incorporated 2009 A Future Beyond Empire:
An Introduction
Saidiya Hartman and Tina Campt
The hands are clasped in a moment of repose. Labor is at a standstill. In this fixed instant, we
experience the sturdiness of these hands as implements...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 50–74.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Anne McClintock The question is still open: what is the purpose of Guantanamo Bay? Why torture people whom the government and the interrogators know are innocent? What kind of U.S. empire now extends its filaments throughout the global gulag of interrogation prisons, torture-ships and internment...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 98–111.
Published: 01 March 2009
... of the autobiographical genre in reckoning with histories of slavery and empire, beginning with The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (1789), and concluding with Carby's own autobiography-in-progress, “Child of Empire: Racializing Subjects in Post...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 March 2002
...Patricia Mohammed Small Axe Incorporated 2002 Taking Possession:
Symbols of Empire and Nationhood
Patricia Mohammed
TAKING POSSESSION
he 1969 planting of the fl ag of the United States of America on the moon, made
symbolic with Aldrin’s invocation of a Christian God...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 127–136.
Published: 01 September 2003
...Madhavi Kale Small Axe Incorporated 2003 BOOK DISCUSSION: CIVILISING SUBJECTS
Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830–1867, Catherine Hall.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. ISBN 0-226-31334-4
Subject to Question: Empire and
Catherine...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 168–178.
Published: 01 September 2003
...Catherine Hall Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Narratives of Empire: A Reply to Critics
Catherine Hall
et me fi rst thank Patrick Bryan, Rhonda Cobham, Madhavi Kale and Faith Smith
for the time and trouble they have taken to think and write about Civilising Subjects.
LI greatly...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 56–76.
Published: 01 July 2015
... encouraged the overwriting of elements in his original plot that had engaged with specifically Jamaican concerns during the endgame of Britain's empire. However, unlike its successors, the film version of Dr. No did retain some insights from Fleming's novel, with its script reflecting aspects of Jamaica's...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 185–193.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Christopher Taylor This essay serves as a response to the review essays by Adom Getachew and Petal Samuel on the author’s 2018 Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism . Exploring how the history of liberal capitalism that Empire of Neglect tells might afford critical...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 167–177.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Adom Getachew This review essay situates Christopher Taylor’s Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism (2018) in the context of the two-decade-long debate about the emergence of a liberal imperialism during the nineteenth century. Through an examination of the political...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 1–16.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann Given the importance of literature to various forms of social cohesion, it is not surprising that the European and US empires that have dominated the geopolitical existence of the insular Caribbean have not readily invested in literary infrastructure throughout...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 175–186.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Charisse Burden-Stelly This essay offers a critical engagement with historian Peter James Hudson’s groundbreaking text Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean . It begins with an analysis of Hudson’s detailed account of the entanglements of the internationalization of US banking...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 175–185.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Marc Matera Through a combination of critical memoir and family history, Hazel V. Carby’s Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands offers an intimate history of empire—an excavation of close connections across space and time, of empire’s presence in the most intimate spaces and relationships...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 1–21.
Published: 01 November 2012
... Revolution, which was followed by Jean-Jacques Dessalines's establishment of an “empire” and the kingdom of Henry Christophe, show the profound antinomies of the discourse of universalism. Beginning with a reading of Haiti's founding documents in light of the political thought of Etienne Balibar and Hannah...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 1–17.
Published: 01 July 2014
.... L. R. James's varied coteries throughout Italy, the author argues that James's methodological innovations in the field of slave historiography were central to the formulation of strategies of refusal and flight eventually popularized in Hardt and Negri's Empire . These methodological homologies...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 1–16.
Published: 01 March 2019
... degree of fear regarding the ability of Haitians to provide both violent and ideological challenges to the British Empire, whereas the travel writer Hesketh Vernon Prichard represents Haiti as part of a more abstract, pseudo-academic discourse on the quality of “black” government. In this “Dessalinean...
FIGURES
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 69–77.
Published: 01 March 2020
... discursive forms pertaining to the West Indies Federation that often “pass” for nationalism while exceeding its bounds, arguing that these forms, ranging between an attachment to empire and the critique of empire, resist assimilation into nationalist frameworks. Copyright © 2020 by Small Axe, Inc. 2020...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 27–40.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Hazel V. Carby Excerpts from Carby's autobiography-in-progress, “Child of Empire: Racializing Subjects in Post World War II Britain.” Small Axe Incorporated 2009 Lost (and Found?) in Translation
Hazel V. Carby
Historical authenticity resides not in the fidelity to an alleged past...
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