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An Intimate History of Empire
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 175–185.
Published: 01 March 2021
... glimpses of the diversity of perspectives and political imaginaries among people of African descent and their extensive ties to a wider black Atlantic. © Small Axe, Inc. 2021 black Britain empire/colonialism postimperial racism intimacy interracial children Straddling the Atlantic Ocean...
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“We are all related”: Edouard Glissant Meets Octavia Butler
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 37–50.
Published: 01 November 2009
... his tangible dimension of Relation as family in his 1996
Faulkner, Mississippi. Part essay, part testimony, the tribute to William Faulkner revolves
around the notion of a complex, wounded, and inextricable interracial family whose black
and white descendents are stuck...
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Radical Skepticisms: Literatures of the Long Jamaican 1960s
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 48–62.
Published: 01 November 2017
... Hills of Hebron and Orlando Patterson's 1964 Children of Sisyphus , as outliers of an otherwise optimistic period of writing nationalist romances. 1 Such periodization, however, occludes the complexities of the emergent disillusionment and disappointment with the nation-building project. 2...
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Subject to Question: Empire and Catherine Hall's Civilising Subjects
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 127–136.
Published: 01 September 2003
..., political activist
and white mother of interracial children, to a twinned vision of the world of her birth,
ssmallmall precipitated by her engagement, archivally and in person, with its namesake in Jamaica
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over the last fi fteen years. One of the notable and salutary things about...
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Heading South : Love/Sex, Necropolitics, and Decolonial Romance
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 43–58.
Published: 01 July 2011
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not lead to a durable relationship.” “Race Matters and Matters of Race: Interracial Relationships in Colonial and Postcolo-
nial Films,” in Dina Sherzer, ed., Cinema, Colonialism, and Postcolonialism: Perspectives from the French and Francophone
World (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996), 239...
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Erotic Synergies and Variances in the Sexual Vernacular of the Postcolonial Dutch Caribbean
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 130–146.
Published: 01 July 2024
... and how power structures perpetuate certain normativities within society. 25 Employing this approach to scrutinize Brusse’s account compels us to confront and question the embedded assumptions regarding personal agency, social hierarchy, and interracial relationships that shape his portrayal...
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Own People: Race, “Altered Solidarities,” and the Limits of Culture in Trinidad
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 18–34.
Published: 01 November 2014
... and African Trinidadians have articulated trust and influence through ethnoracial difference. J. Brent Crosson constructs both a counterhistory of ethnoracial relations in Trinidad and a counternarrative to culturalist explanations for contemporary violence to foreground less-legible forms of interracial...
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Violent Liaisons: Historical Crossings and the Negotiation of Sex, Sexuality, and Race in The Book of Night Women and The True History of Paradise
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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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A Spirit of Inquiry: Convening Jamaica as Method
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 181–186.
Published: 01 November 2020
... (“the lower classes”) as vectors toward understanding disorganized families in the Caribbean, state authorities mobilized the children of interracial intimacies as symbols of the dangers of incorporating black colonial migrants in England. 5 Where the logics of colonial histories segregate and embed...
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Genres of History and the Practice of Loss: Attending to Silence in Hazel Carby’s Imperial Intimacies
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 167–174.
Published: 01 March 2021
... to archival boundaries and the limits of historical methodologies that make certain imaginings most difficult. These fictionalized accounts of intimate interracial negotiations and possible violent encounters evoke the private diaries of the Jamaican overseer and planter Thomas Thistle-wood, who...
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Partus sequitur ventrem : Law, Race, and Reproduction in Colonial Slavery
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 1–17.
Published: 01 March 2018
... and the market, the echo of the slaveowners’ family in the family of the enslaved demanded a clear articulation of the particularities of difference. Conversations about interracial sex and the visibility of racial inheritance in children became an entry point for the articulation of those particularities...
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Peter Abrahams’s Island Fictions for Freedom
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 84–101.
Published: 01 March 2021
...; British landlords were hesitant to rent to an interracial family, so Daphne and the children would live in one residence and Peter in another. 4 Ghana was considered, but perhaps because of Abrahams’s critique of Nkrumahism, it was not an option. 5 While in England, the Abrahamses were friends...
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Bad Faith and the Contours of Black Consciousness
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 145–156.
Published: 01 March 2024
.... But collectively, in the spectrum of American ethnic and religious and regional groups, where some get plenty and some get none, where some send eighty percent of their children to college and others pull them out of school at the 8th grade, Negroes are among the weakest. The most difficult fact for white...
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Revolutionary Visions? Ramón Emeterio Betances, Les deux Indiens , and Haiti
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 44–52.
Published: 01 March 2020
... how Rigaud, while imprisoned in France along with Tous-saint, consoled his former enemy. This moment, which is apparently fictional, represents for Betances a “symbol of peace between all of the children of the intelligent but unfortunate race that . . . gives life to the Antilles and the Gulf...
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“The Unhomely Moment”: Frieda Cassin's Nineteenth-Century Antiguan Novel and the Construction of the White Creole
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 95–106.
Published: 01 July 2009
... of Victorian racial theory.
What was so worrying was the danger of miscegenation and interracial transgression whereby
“a culture in its colonial operation becomes hybridized, alienated and potentially threatening
to its European original through the production of the polymorphously...
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Claiming an Identity We Thought They Despised: Contemporary White West Indian Writers and Their Negotiation of Race
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 93–110.
Published: 01 September 2003
... there: as a child in Guyana, where the narrator is
both envied and resented for her white skin, she is embarrassed when children taunt her
by calling her “ice cream face”; but when she is in England she is also embarrassed by her
brown father, whose appearance subjects her to another type of taunting: “Mum...
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“Freak Letters”: Tracing Gender, Race, and Diaspora in the Panama Canal Archive
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 34–56.
Published: 01 July 2019
... to marriage and sexuality. At the time, West Indian women often had children out of wedlock, and most West Indian couples lived in unsanctioned concubinage. Available sources indicate that Americans discussed this disapprovingly and that the canal commission and churches heavily discouraged the practice...
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All Creoles Now? Béké Identity and Éloge de la créolité
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 220–232.
Published: 01 March 2017
... béké aspiration to “préserver la race” (preserve their race) distilled a desire to ensure economic supremacy through enforcing racial uniformity; by preventing interbreeding with nonwhites—or, more accurately, by refusing to recognize children born through intercourse with black slaves...
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Lost (and Found?) in Translation
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 27–40.
Published: 01 March 2009
... mayor
“counseling” his listeners “to be wise rulers of men in [the] far-flung Empire.”7 While children
in Britain were wearing red, white, and blue, marching around their respective playgrounds
singing anthems and saluting the Union Jack, my dad in Jamaica, like children all over...
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One and Divisible: Meditations on Global Blackness
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 4–25.
Published: 01 July 2009
... with Japanese women, many becom-
ing formalized by marriage—the so-called war brides—and relocating to the United States
as interracial families at the end of the war. The documentary Doubles: Japan and America’s
Intercultural Children (1995), produced by Regge Life, captures the drama...
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