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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 64–71.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Maja Horn This introduction traces critical concerns in Dominican gender and sexuality studies in the United States. It suggests applying a triangulated lens to the study of gender and sexuality, focusing not only on Dominican-Haitian cross-border and colonial relations but also on the role of US...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 189–198.
Published: 01 November 2016
... Trujillo is a work of literary studies that builds on a large corpus of interdisciplinary scholarship, including political theory, anthropology, and sociology, as well as critical race, gender, and sexuality studies. Furthermore, Horn intervenes in several fields. Within Dominican studies, she makes...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 92–112.
Published: 01 March 2016
...” and developed in later essays, it examines the circulation of knowledge on gender and sexuality emanating from the crisis school. Highlighting the points of convergence found in government-sponsored policy studies, academic scholarship, and the newspaper column of a men's organization from Barbados, the essay...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 241–249.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Lisa Outar This essay offers a critical engagement with Rosamond S. King's Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination (2014), arguing that King enacts a ground-shifting interdisciplinary and translinguistic approach to the study of Caribbean sexualities and gender...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 57–69.
Published: 01 March 2017
... sees similarities in their ways of working and defining the female body and in their ways of using historical and contemporary references in the narratives in which they place these gendered bodies. © Small Axe, Inc. 2017 contemporary art Latina artists gender studies This essay explores...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 85–98.
Published: 01 July 2018
... discussions of Latina and Dominican gender, ethnoracial, and cultural identity. Thanks to Sarah Aponte, Jessy Pérez, and Jhensen Ortiz at the Dominican Studies Institute for their assistance with bibliographical materials used in this essay. Over the last two decades, there has been a steady increase...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 26–38.
Published: 01 July 2009
... processes through which by “dying into the text” of race (to use hooks’s language), diaspora studies forgoes a deeper understanding of the intersubjective relations of gender and sexual formation that shape both inter- and intra-racial relations of race.20 16 bell hooks...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 199–205.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Maja Horn This essay is a response to Carlos Ulises Decena's and Dixa Ramírez's reading of Masculinity after Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature (2014). As both discussants note, the study emphasizes the important task of multiplying the archives of Dominican literature...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 46–59.
Published: 01 July 2022
... within queer Cuban and Caribbean studies, noticing the ways they push back against renderings of gender and sexuality as inherently distinct categories. Instead, for these artist-thinkers, trans subjectivity is informed by various experiences related to gender, sexuality, race, class, and geography...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 59–77.
Published: 01 July 2011
..., no. 1 (1993): 9. 70  |  Bustling across the Canada-US Border: Gender and the Remapping of the Caribbean across Place not need to be in ‘America’ to know it.”26 The idea of “America” was also compelling for the Caribbean women in this study who now make their homes in Canada, and while...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 179–188.
Published: 01 November 2016
... an engagement with the operations of silence in the work of Hilma Contreras and of racialized gender identity formation in the novel Erzulie's Skirt by Ana-Maurine Lara, Decena considers more horizons made possible by the opening in the study of Dominican literature that Horn traces. In addition to registering...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 16–29.
Published: 01 March 2010
.... This study shows how the pleasures and public intimacies enabled by these live performances do not come free, but rather work at times to reformulate long-held cultural understandings of things such as race, class, gender and sexuality, and at other times, to reinforce them. Small Axe, Inc. 2010 Music...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 230–233.
Published: 01 March 2009
..., and an affiliated member of the ethnic studies department and the program in critical gender stud- ies. She is the author of Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms (1991), Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics (1996), and the forthcoming Metaphors of Globaliza- tion...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 194–196.
Published: 01 July 2022
... ekker is an Afro-Surinamese Dutch sociocultural anthropologist with specializations in gender studies, sexuality, African American studies, and Caribbean studies. She is emerita professor in gender studies at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Among her noteworthy publications are The Politics...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 209–211.
Published: 01 July 2017
... Studies, Social Justice, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Masculinities, Sexualities, South Asian Studies , and Alternatives . He edited the groundbreaking “Sexualities” issue of the Caribbean Review of Gender Studies . More information about his research activities and arts practice...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 81–96.
Published: 01 November 2020
... this reclamation of other forms of supposedly improper sex. In this essay, I examine the discursive formation of homosexuality in late colonial Jamaica through an analysis of the 1951 Police Enquiry. Contrary to other work in anglophone Caribbean studies that highlights how subjects of same-gender intimacy...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 173–179.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Tavia Nyong'o This essay reviews two recent publications in the area of black music and sound studies—Julian Henriques's Sonic Bodies: Reggae Sound Systems, Performance Techniques, and Ways of Knowing (2011) and Alexander G. Weheliye's Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity (2005)—taking...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 152–161.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley; Matt Richardson This reflection argues that the oeuvre of Colin Dayan provides critical tools for the elaboration of black transgender studies. Specifically, the authors analyze the trial and imprisonment of black transgender activist CeCe MacDonald using Dayan's work...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 28–43.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Elizabeth E. Sine This essay explores the making of a radical cultural politics amid the global crisis of the 1930s and 1940s through a study of the life and work of dancer Si-lan Chen. Born in Trinidad to Afro-Caribbean and Chinese parents, trained as a ballerina in Moscow, and an active supporter...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 244–246.
Published: 01 November 2013
... by the University of Virginia Press in 2013. Her current project focuses on French travelers to the Caribbean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. K atherine M c K ittrick is an associate professor of gender studies at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. She is the author of Demonic Grounds: Black...