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Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 129–133.
Published: 01 March 2005
...T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting Small Axe Incorporated 2005 Erasures and the
Practice of Diaspora Feminism
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
hat would it mean though to stake out a ‘silenced’ genealogy of Négritude
through the transnational intellectual circuits of African...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 87–103.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Raj Chetty This essay approaches the stage versions of Toussaint Louverture (1934) and The Black Jacobins (1967), first, to emphasize the role of C. L. R. James’s collaborations in the creation of the plays, and second, to argue that the latter version of the play presents a radical feminism...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 7–21.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Kaiama L. Glover This essay reflects on Haitian radicalism by looking at the life and the works of novelist Marie Vieux Chauvet (1916–73). Though increasingly a subject of interest for scholars of Haitian women's literature and of Haitian feminism, Chauvet's work is only rarely considered alongside...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 71–83.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Faith Smith This essay argues that the death of a fictional photographer in the 1907 novel Rupert Gray: A Tale in Black and White allays anxieties posed by photographic surveillance and “feminization.” Even if the novel's faith in the British Empire disqualifies it from being radical, its portrayal...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 85–98.
Published: 01 July 2018
... the growing field of Afro-Latinx feminism. It highlights issues that are central to current and revisionist discussions of Latina and Dominican gender, ethno-racial, and cultural identity. Copyright © 2018 by Small Axe, Inc. 2018 Raquel Cepeda New York City Afro- dominicana memoir This book...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 232–243.
Published: 01 July 2018
..., highlighting how this literature has long drawn on matrilineal genealogies to examine indentureship, its afterlife, and its significance for contemporary Caribbean feminisms. Critically seen, a focus on mutilated womanhood as individually experienced overshadows decades of Indo-Caribbean women’s empowerment...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 22–35.
Published: 01 March 2020
... and intellectual contributions of theories of relationality and decolonial feminisms by women of color should be understood as theoretical and methodological tools for approaching some of the most peripheralized Afro-diasporic works. To that end, it examines the histories and the interconnected literary...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 65–80.
Published: 01 November 2020
... for understanding late colonialism in the Caribbean, it has caricatured Caribbean feminist interventions in nationalist projects, and it contributes to the feminization of an enduring Caribbean “coloniality.” 25 “Women’s Liberal Club Aim at Mass Wedding,” Daily Gleaner , 6 September 1939. 26 “Mass...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 45–51.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Louis Chude-Sokei The Black Scholar ( TBS ), established in 1969, emerged from a public confluence of black political and cultural movements—black power, black arts, Pan-Africanism and decolonization, black feminism, and the emergence of a black political class. As primary intellectual organ...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 32–48.
Published: 01 November 2023
... to a hemispheric and anticipatory Black lesbian politic. The essay builds on previous work on Black lesbian feminism in Cuba and provides insight into the type of activism that was happening in the island in the mid-2010s, which laid the groundwork for the growth in Afro-feminist and Afro-queer activism...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 130–138.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Faith Smith This essay discusses Jacqui Alexander's Pedagogies of Crossing as framing an analysis of the curtailment of erotic autonomy in the United States and the Caribbean, the failures of liberal feminism and academia, and the propensity for military intervention, with an examination...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 118–129.
Published: 01 October 2007
... and community and a collectivized vision-making that is not circumscribed by feminist engagement with the state. Small Axe Incorporated 2007 BOOK DISCUSSION
Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and
the Sacred by M. Jacqui Alexander. Durham: Duke University Press...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 92–112.
Published: 01 March 2016
... in the Caribbean: Reality or Illusion (Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, 2003), 73. 62 Tracy Robinson, “Fictions of Citizenship, Bodies without Sex: The Production and Effacement of Gender in Law,” Small Axe , no. 7 (2000): 1–27; and “Gender, Feminism, and Constitutional Reform in the Caribbean,” in Bailey...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 133–150.
Published: 01 March 2002
..., “Introduction: Mapping a Genealogy of Black British Feminism,” Black British Feminism, ed.
H. S. Mirza (London: Routledge Press, 1997), 3.
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Contrary to an essentialized notion of blackness rooted in biology, the term “black,”
within the British context, has been a site of resistance...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 74–83.
Published: 01 November 2022
... for getting her message across in order to actively resist colonialist paradigms of exploitation. birdsoto@uwm.edu Copyright © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc. 2022 Luisa Capetillo Puerto Rican feminism transnationalism factory reader colonialist paradigms As a preamble, let us establish...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 143–153.
Published: 01 March 2023
... republicanism, Éboué-Tell and Vialle compelled France to actualize its own republican ideals of liberty, equality, fraternity and include those in the French Union, especially Black women, as equal members and participants of the French Republic. Naomi Schor reminds us that “French feminism is shot through...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 154–166.
Published: 01 October 2007
... and to Michelle Rowley, Faith Smith, and
Tracy Robinson, feminist scholars, for they have opened me to the pleasure of a different kind of
engagement with the work that Pedagogies of Crossing is doing in the world. All three essays stage
a dialogic praxis that is critical to feminism, and critical as well...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 1–15.
Published: 01 March 2010
... engagement with discipliniza-
tion has been an insidious contraction of the category human and counterdiscourses that
aim to “facilitate structural failures in some of foundationalism’s most heinous formations—
racism, patriarchy, homophobia, ageism.”1 Caribbean feminisms tell such a story. Caribbean...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 57–76.
Published: 01 February 2008
... is that then we knew that it was as a population—men, women,
and children—that we had thought we could not do anything.”3 Over a period of almost
fifty years, Wynter’s engagement with feminism has been complex but consistent. Despite
contemporary challenges, she continues to present...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 248.
Published: 01 March 2004
..., where she also runs
a project entitled “Th e Postcolonial Presence in the European Union” in the Institute for
International Integration Studies. Her research interests include questions of Caribbean
identity, culture, and resistance; discourses of terrorism; gender and feminism...
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