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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 201–218.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Agustín Laó-Montes This review essay of Rocio Zambrana’s Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico (2021) argues that it is a book about contemporary Puerto Rico and its world-historical significance that engages this endeavor with depth and breath, carefully crafting its own argument, through...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 122–127.
Published: 01 July 2023
...SJ Zhang This essay proposes the historical term simarrona (used in colonial Louisiana archives) as a heuristic for unlearning certain reading practices of the term maroon and its persistent “etymology plot.” Simarrona not only troubles the neat linguistic geographies of the term maroon...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 49–64.
Published: 01 November 2016
... of the idea of Hispanic Caribbean studies for the historical study of the region. Historically, the Hispanic Caribbean at times included islands and colonies such as Jamaica, Trinidad, and Saint-Domingue. Patterns of migration further complicate the boundaries of the Hispanic Caribbean, as diaspora renders...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 17–39.
Published: 01 November 2017
... distinction between the global present and colonial or postcolonial pasts. Opposing these narratives of clean historical breaks, CARICOM and Coates insist that colonial history continues to restrict the transnational present and that anticolonialism's projects remain unfinished. In doing so, they draw on debt...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 43–59.
Published: 01 July 2012
... James's The Book of Night Women (2009) and Margaret Cezair-Thompson's The True History of Paradise (1999), and the texts' explicit engagements with colonialism and the historical contexts of interracial exchanges. 5 Mixed-race and white Caribbean women were often seen historically as visual...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 169–181.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Krista A. Thompson Are there intrinsic and unique ways of representing the “visual atmospherics” of the Caribbean? Might phenomenological studies of embodied perception offer insight into distinct forms of Caribbean visuality? How would contrapuntal interpretations of colonial archives result...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 22–37.
Published: 01 March 2014
... Of these institutions, only the Colonial Bank, which became part of Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial, and Overseas), has an extended history and an extensive historiography. 26 There is also relatively little historical writing on the merchant-bankers and banking houses of the Atlantic port cities, stretching...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 133–144.
Published: 01 February 2008
... of a ruined landscape, indicating the role of
nationalist and anti-colonial hopes in visualising a reshaped picture-perfect tropics. The issue
for art historical research is the need to elucidate under what circumstances and why do
picturesque forms continue to appear within as much...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 145–156.
Published: 01 February 2008
... historicity to the black population, ever unproblematically yield `black history'? Can black histories ever be built on fragile postcard infrastructures?” Small Axe Incorporated 2008 Caribbean Subjectivity
and the Colonial Archive
Beth Fowkes Tobin
Ab s t r a c t : This essay takes up...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 123–140.
Published: 01 July 2014
...); Matthew Restall, Lisa Sousa, and Kevin Terraciano, Mesoamerican Voices: Native-Language Writings from Colonial Mexico, Oaxaca, Yucatan, and Guatemala (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005). 35 Richard Price, First Time: Historical Vision of an African-American People (Baltimore: Johns...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 143–153.
Published: 01 March 2023
... the archival and scholarly invisibility of Black women’s contributions to decolonial movements because Black women’s responses to colonialism have historically been obfuscated, relegated to the periphery of their male comrades’ achievements and histories. By centering Black women as “political protagonists...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 52–58.
Published: 01 March 2023
... differently if greater attention is paid to the Dutch Caribbean. The essays included in the section demonstrate the shifting role that De Kom and his book have played—from the 1930s and the anxieties they created for the colonial state; to their international impact on other revolutionary movements...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 159–166.
Published: 01 July 2023
... governing sex, marriage, and public dress. The pairing of antisodomy laws and bestiality codes during the early colonial era, Gosine contends, underwrites contemporary attitudes that marginalize a variety of nonheteronormative expressions and continues to influence a collective compulsion to constantly...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 123–130.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Shannon Alonzo This visual essay explores a fragment of the journey to know our ancestors in their absence. The pregnant silences of archives, skewed by years of historical erasure and the remnants of colonial legacy, so often obscure our walk toward collective belonging and a deeper understanding...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 226–236.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of “forced poetics,” a coercion that is inevitable when speech is dictated not simply by the universal rules of language but by a historically specific grammar of violence that is founded in an initial denial of any formal education (as against Ngũgĩ’s objections to the deceit of colonial education). 14...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 15–31.
Published: 01 November 2023
...’ landscape portraiture against the historical backdrops of colonialism, territorial dispossession, and autonomous struggle in the isthmus. Understanding the political and the cultural as inextricably intertwined, this essay reads their place-based visual art as a critical form of anticolonial critique...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 18–34.
Published: 01 July 2018
... control of the levers of power left by colonial rulers. “When you are ruled by an imperialist power,” he explained, “armed force decides. When you have slavery, you live with armed force every hour of the day.” In such a historical context “there is established not democracy, but subordination to power...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 99–114.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Ana-Maurine Lara Drawing on the strategies employed by LGBT activists in the Dominican Republic, this essay seeks to theorize how strategic universalisms are mobilized as a form of agentive sociopolitical action. Delineating how universalization has historically been a tool of Catholic coloniality...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 132–141.
Published: 01 July 2019
... of theorization within the field of Dominican studies. Furthermore, Ramírez urges us to situate “Dominican expressive culture and historical formations at the forefront of a number of scholarly investigations of colonial modernity in the Americas, the African diaspora, geographic displacement (e.g., migration...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 228–238.
Published: 01 November 2020
... contends that race has been overdetermined in ways that have historically understated the centrality of black labor to the emergence of modern capitalism, to anticapitalist struggle, and to the movement for universal freedom and a more broadly defined socialism. The essay concludes by asserting that black...
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