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Schomburg, Futurity, and the Precarious Archives of Self

Nancy Raquel Mirabal

Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 111–119.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8190650

Published: 01 March 2020

... that emphasized the history, experience, and culture of African descended peoples and communities. Employing Valdés’s Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg , this essay explores the politics of Afro-diasporic collection, archive, visibility, and futurity. If archives can...

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El Caribe on the Horizon: José Esteban Muñoz and the Commitment to Futurity

Sandra Ruiz

Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 94–103.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3139406

Published: 01 July 2015

...Sandra Ruiz This essay traces José Esteban Muñoz's critical contributions to Caribbean studies. By paying particular attention to his commitment to futurity, Ruiz suggests that the hispanophone Caribe's “all-overness,” its subjectivity on the move, is at the heart of Muñoz's critical vision...

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The Science-Fictional Caribbean: Technological Futurity in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber and Beyond

Kate Perillo

Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 1–17.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-6985642

Published: 01 July 2018

...Kate Perillo This essay situates Nalo Hopkinson’s science fiction novel Midnight Robber within an understudied tradition of critical and creative thought that theorizes technological futurity in distinctly Caribbean terms. Although not typically read as “science fiction,” Édouard Glissant’s...

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Future Impossible Communities

Jossianna Arroyo

Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 96–102.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8190625

Published: 01 March 2020

... intervention in theories of nationalism produced by the past projects of federation and the possible futures they give rise to. The essays collected in this special section—key interventions on the Spanish Caribbean Confederation projects in the nineteenth century and the West Indies Federation...

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Thinking Beyond Coloniality: Toward Radical Caribbean Futures

Mimi Sheller

Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 169–170.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9384360

Published: 01 July 2021

... tradition, saving us from our own alienation, colonization, and ambivalence. This essay takes inspiration from Beyond Coloniality to respond to the climate-political-social-cultural crisis in the Caribbean and to think through the possibilities for futurity in relation to reparative justice and ecological...

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A Future Beyond Empire: An Introduction

Saidiya Hartman, Tina Campt

Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 19–26.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2008-003

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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Remembering to Reinvent One's Future

Alex Burke

Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 84–92.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2009-029

Published: 01 November 2009

...Alex Burke Small Axe, Inc. 2009 Remembering to Reinvent One’s Future Alex Burke At the end of the 1960s, I was doing representational painting in black and white; I had eliminated color out of an effort for more simplicity. At the beginning of the 1970s...

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Plantation Futures

Katherine McKittrick

Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 1–15.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2378892

Published: 01 November 2013

... of decolonial practices, black life, and black futures are embedded in place. Within this framework there is an underlying push to seek consolation in naming violence. This carries with it an expectation that the road to recovery is an evolution toward a mode of humanness that is produced...

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Reprising the Past, Imagining the Future

Brian Meeks

Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 187–198.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3626704

Published: 01 July 2016

..., and the possible directions for Caribbean politics in the near future. While largely sympathetic to many of their comments, Meeks engages with Gray specifically around what Meeks considers Gray's minimalizing of the distinctions between radical activists of the 1970s and contemporary “Dons,” the role of Cuba...

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Caliban's Reason and the Future of Afro-Caribbean Philosophy

Claudette Anderson

Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 173–178.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-6-1-173

Published: 01 March 2002

...Claudette Anderson Small Axe Incorporated 2002 Caliban’s Reason and the Future of Afro-Caribbean Philosophy Claudette Anderson aget Henry, in his book Caliban’s Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy, has done an excellent job of excavating what he terms the “implicit...

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The Futures of Michel-Rolph Trouillot: In Memoriam

David Scott

Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): vii–x.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-1894060

Published: 01 November 2012

...David Scott © 2012 by Small Axe, Inc. 2012 The Futures of Michel-Rolph Trouillot: In Memoriam David Scott Gatekeeping has never been successful in the Caribbean. —Michel-Rolph Trouillot When in the mid-1970s Richard Price and Sidney Mintz left Yale University and set about...

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Bongo Futures: The Reggae Revival and Its Genealogies

Kezia Page

Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 1–16.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3844022

Published: 01 March 2017

... revivalists began on sets for music videos, and he found among the young musicians an unflinching attention to the ills in Jamaican society. He also sees Rastafari and Japanese anime as a chimera, in their preoccupation with apocalypse and futures unchained by the realities of social norms and cultures soon...

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Postdisaster Futures: Hopeful Pessimism, Imperial Ruination, and La futura cuir

Yarimar Bonilla

Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 147–162.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8604562

Published: 01 July 2020

...Yarimar Bonilla This essay discusses how Puerto Ricans are imagining and building new futures out of a political context of material and affective ruin that is not guided by the promise of a modernist future or the palliative anticipation of a sovereignty to come. It examines how the politics...

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The Politically Unimaginable in Black Marxist Thought

Minkah Makalani

Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 18–34.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-6985654

Published: 01 July 2018

...Minkah Makalani One of the appeals of imagining a future alternative to the political present is the possibility of shedding modernity’s constitutive colonial assemblages and its conceit of the inevitability of human progress. Yet it remains something of a paradox that even at their most radical...

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Grace L. Sanders Johnson

Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 1–13.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10211808

Published: 01 November 2022

... guides this study of transnational practices of anti-Black violence and accounts for the possibilities of Black women’s futures beyond their record of disappearance. Naming the layered applications, quotidian quality, and refusals of physical, psychological, and archival violence during the US occupation...

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futurity

Schomburg, Futurity, and the Precarious Archives of Self

El Caribe on the Horizon: José Esteban Muñoz and the Commitment to Futurity

The Science-Fictional Caribbean: Technological Futurity in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber and Beyond

Future Impossible Communities

Thinking Beyond Coloniality: Toward Radical Caribbean Futures

A Future Beyond Empire: An Introduction

Remembering to Reinvent One's Future

Plantation Futures

Reprising the Past, Imagining the Future

Caliban's Reason and the Future of Afro-Caribbean Philosophy

The Futures of Michel-Rolph Trouillot: In Memoriam

Bongo Futures: The Reggae Revival and Its Genealogies

Postdisaster Futures: Hopeful Pessimism, Imperial Ruination, and La futura cuir

The Politically Unimaginable in Black Marxist Thought

Of Celestinas and Saints, or Deconstructing the Myths of Dominican Womanhood

Death in the Arena: A Brief History of Dancehall, Time, and the Cold War

Where and When Is Crisis?

Historical Temporality and Generational Identity: Of Standoffs and Stalled Time

Freedom, Sovereignty, and Other Entanglements

Archive as Offering: Haiti and Historical Possibility

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