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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 164–173.
Published: 01 November 2022
... and Gill-Sadler, respectively, to inform a close reading of Phyllis Coard’s memoir Unchained: A Caribbean Woman’s Journey through Invasion, Incarceration, and Liberation (2019). The author argues that Coard’s representation of her body under incarceration serves to push her humanity into the consciousness...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 28–46.
Published: 01 March 2021
... enable an unremembered history to enter our field of vision, thereby generating an alternative wartime narrative. After tracing Nassy’s family history in Suriname and the conditions of his European incarceration, this essay discusses two paintings that demonstrate the significance of visual art...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 162–177.
Published: 01 November 2014
... and Ghachem's very different representations of the Code Noir and the Lejeune case helps illuminate the (ever more visibly) political stakes of Dayan's long-standing critique of the conversional logic through which both the slavery of old and the penal incarceration of today have “turned humans into things...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 169–180.
Published: 01 March 2022
... to deny the necessaries of life. Evidence of the “crime” of poverty can be seen in the contemporary forms of anti-Black violence—mass incarceration, state violence, blacklisting, and debanking that define the long arc that today links America’s war on drugs to the war on terror. Policy makers puzzle...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 152–161.
Published: 01 November 2014
... not for disciplinary reasons but (allegedly) to protect her from possible violence in the general population. Prior to her incarceration, McDonald was prescribed a hormone patch as part of her transition, and the court ordered that this treatment continue. However, the prison violated the court's order by denying her...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 144–152.
Published: 01 November 2022
... narrations of empire. To bring that process of narrative dulling into even sharper relief and to think alongside Lambert’s close reading of Purcell, I include a close reading of Phyllis Coard’s treatment of time and imperial trauma in Unchained: A Caribbean Woman’s Journey through Invasion, Incarceration...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): vii–viii.
Published: 01 March 2010
... to the catastrophe of 19 October—what they had learned from their long incarceration,
whether they had changed in their perception of their actions, whether they now had a different
account to give of the terrible events that had brought them to this point. Was this questioning
innocence...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 194–208.
Published: 01 June 2007
... hand, its attempted theft
reflects the destitution and symbolic reenslavement of Toussaint, processes with which the
text opens as the protagonist and his family travel towards incarceration in France on board
the Héros; on the other, it invites more abstract reflection...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 160–162.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Gabrielle Bellot They dream of pinning the girl's imprisoning body down and bringing the incarcerated inner girl to the surface and making the outer girl smile and cry out from the pleasure she has undoubtedly refused up until they show her the keys of Nature and God. The boys see her lost...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 160–170.
Published: 01 November 2018
... can comment that there is an overall structural distance of the commission from the “youth” in the system, a distance that is further reinforced by how the commission “cares” for incarcerated youth by reforming certain programs and activities. What strikes me about this commissioner-juvenile...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 132–141.
Published: 01 March 2020
... appalled by the continued colonial status of Puerto Rico and by the unequal access to quality education in the United States and abroad and the ways this impacts youth read as black, brown, and poor. He would have been dismayed by the high level of incarceration and police brutality also against people...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 193–202.
Published: 01 March 2009
.... Claudia Jones’s arrests and incarcerations under the Smith and McCar-
ren acts for her political opinions and activities and high-level membership in the Communist
Party could not have escaped Drake’s notice. Jones was detained at Ellis Island for her political
3 For its...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 188–202.
Published: 01 November 2017
... government or those persecuted and incarcerated in local and federal prisons. 19 Among the eight nationalists imprisoned in 1937 were Albizu, Corretjer, and poet Clemente Soto Vélez. Burgos would connect again with her former comrades and friends when, after serving their prison sentences, they all...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 February 2008
... . . . as the ‘nomos’ of the modern,
the biopolitical paradigm of its power.”1 Scott challenges us to think about earlier and other
sites of the bare life of modernity, sites constituted by the Middle Passage travails, denuded
humanity, and incarcerated and disposable raced bodies of black slaves. His argument...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 203–216.
Published: 01 March 2009
... of
these questions are implicitly part of the critical engagement about the life of Claudia Jones,
her migration, her political activism, her insistence on expressing her political ideas, her
incarceration, and ultimately her exile in London. However, these questions are also relevant...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): v–ix.
Published: 01 February 2006
... apparent to
some than to others (holding out the prospect of escape for the slave or the incarcerated,
for example, or of self-reinvention for the marginalized) and gains heightened salience
at particular times and historical moments than others. Borders summon when centers
oppress more...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 122–127.
Published: 01 July 2023
... of the enslaved prisoners informs my thinking on the paradoxical position of these recaptured and incarcerated individuals. See Christopher R. Adamson, “Punishment after Slavery: Southern State Penal Systems, 1865–1890,” Social Problems 30 (1983): 557. See also my essay “What Cecilia Knew: Reading Reproduction...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 39–61.
Published: 01 November 2011
... this teenager who
was incarcerated just because he was seeking asylum in the United States. I was working for
Jonathan at the time and that’s how I met Cheryl Little of FIAC. Over the years, I remained
in touch with her even after I stopped working with Artists for Democracy in Haiti. When...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 19–26.
Published: 01 March 2009
... are in crisis.
The practice of rehabilitating black masculinity assumes a variety of forms: denying state aid
to the needy, incarcerating poor men and women of color for crimes against property and
drug use, criminalizing fathers unable to pay child support, and scapegoating black folks...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 121–128.
Published: 01 November 2015
... but also on the economy and the politics. Indeed, in the vision for African art thus developed, we can read what Césaire meant, against any form of essentialism, when he categorically refused in his letter to Maurice Thorez, written ten years earlier, an incarcerating conception of identity. 13...
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