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... Small Axe, Inc. 2017 archives Michelle Cliff Marlon James queer advocacy failed emergence Rosamond S. King's Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination is a carefully argued and scrupulously researched study of the ways a range of desiring subjects defy...

..., and lengthens the process of ‘becoming.’” This allows us to be aware of what he terms the “various routes of ‘becoming,’” which for us will mean attending to what gets silenced in pursuing certain routes and assuming particular postures. 5 Stephen Best's endorsement of failed emergence, where the pasts we...

... online. 80  |  Whiteness as War by Other Means: Racial Complexity in an Age of Failed States I realize. So to build up to it, let me offer a little more about the ethical claims of civil society as they have been recently pitched in an emergent global context. Here I want to address...

..., failed to reassure the Haitian diaspora about the fate of their compatriots. Whether for questionable accuracy that failed to surmount the language barrier or for overt racism that portrayed victims as looters, Haitian studies scholars immediately denounced the mechanisms of “othering” at work...

... of ruination might lead to a “hopeful pessimism” that could break with the nostalgic immobility of the arrested present. It concludes by exploring the possibilities of an emerging cuir (queer) futurity that breaks with raced and gendered scripts of postcolonial sovereignty to envision a new postdisaster future...

...: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica (2020)—the crime of poverty—the essay explores how emerging anti–money laundering / combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regulatory policies are changing the terrain of struggle to recuperate and repudiate the devaluation of Black life in the Caribbean...

... chart Wynter's intellectual journey and rehearse the progression from a cultural concern to a seemingly more profound interrogation of the human, this essay suspends this narrative transition in order to traverse the conceptual field from which Wynter's “Black Metamorphosis” emerges. Focusing...

... for social change. I now believe that this question is embedded within a larger Caribbean “problem-space” in that it emerges at a moment when most Caribbean societies are marking their half-century of independence—or of postcolonial revolution, in the case of Cuba—and thus throughout the region...

... a brilliant exception to the sundering of blackness and self-shattering in African diasporic work. 38 Robinson, Black Marxism , 73. 37 Significantly, Robinson fails to draw a single example of the black radical tradition from the North American context—which absence suggests that creolization...

..., and university students; wealthy, working-class, and middle-class entrepreneurs, professors, scholars, and artists; and religious lay leaders and clergy. 4 Much of the lesbian leadership emerged in the 1970s and 1980s from the Dominican feminist movement, in the context of a larger Latin American feminist...

... of “an atmosphere of police rule and emergency law, which severely dampened the organizational capability of the entire radical movement,” the popular movement of 1970–73 failed: “Such an atmosphere was, at least in part, precipitated by NUFF itself and contributed immensely to its ultimate decimation.” 10 Far...

... corporate interests and its allies in the privileged urban classes. In fact, Trouillot argues that the armed forces created the terrain in which the crisis of hegemony of the Haitian bourgeoisie planted the roots of an emerging totalitarian regime. In other words, the bourgeoisie's incapacity to articulate...

... 1960s therefore produced a unique set of circumstances. One was the deepening of authoritarian state power and the emergence of novel forms of political domination. Equally important for understanding the 1960s is that the period produced an upheaval in social thought, triggered myriad forms of popular...

... much has changed in the past decade, with crucial insider perspectives emerging from writers such as Curwen Best and Carolyn Cooper herself, the counteractive tide of external critique—which has greater metropolitan media resonance and access to discourse—has arguably increased...

... seminal text Capitalism and Slavery , Eric Williams contended that African enslavement in the Americas did not stem from racism, but rather racism emerged as a consequence of slavery. 4 In other words, racism’s dehumanizing logics were necessary to justify the extremely inhumane conditions...

... practice than to the text's demonstrable failings. He uses the occasion to meditate on the psychopathology that informs the writing of a scholarly critique of a peer's work and the tension that such a task may entail. Small Axe Incorporated 2008 Conversation Manqué: On Judging Someone Else’s Book...

... and political contexts, and a frustration with the term third gender, which emerged in the mid-1970s to describe operations of gender in cultures that binary models of male/female, heterosexual/homosexual would not or could not fit.4 Although found in earlier writings,5 by the mid-1980s transgender...

... from years of struggling to obtain recognition from persons occupying spaces that seemed to control my professional and spiritual trajectory. I believed that respectable politics and the Black genius, described by Cornel West as emerging in Black preaching and jazz outside the purview of the White...

... Language, in the quote above, is part of a problem. It is the missing component in a failed act of communication, one that leaves the speaker frustrated with his interlocutor. Although obviously gifted with language himself, he is unwilling or unprepared for the task of using it to “explain,” at least...

... erroneous suppositions: that the antiblack policies and discourses produced by Dominican elites could represent the entire territory’s populace and that US racial ideologies, even in presumably antiracist discourse, may be decontextualized and overvalued in relation to racial ideologies that emerged out...