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From Mode of Production to Mode of Auto-Institution: Sylvia Wynter's Black Metamorphosis of the Labor Question

Demetrius L. Eudell
Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 47–61.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3481534
Published: 01 March 2016
...Demetrius L. Eudell This essay illustrates how Sylvia Wynter's “Black Metamorphosis” reconceptualizes the question of labor as it relates to the history of blacks in the Americas and generally to the being of Being Human. It does so by situating Wynter's distinctive intervention within the context...
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Journal Work and the “Public Good”: Undocumented Academic Labor in Emerging Fields

Patricia Joan Saunders
Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 58–75.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3626776
Published: 01 July 2016
... by these kinds of publishing arrangements. This brings us back to the earlier questions I raised about the role of the university in what could easily be considered a “labor dispute” between publishers, journal editors, and the “publics” they serve. Since most university faculty is not unionized, this may...
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Handling with Care: On Editing, Invisibility, and Affective Labor

Kelly Baker Josephs
Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 98–105.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3626824
Published: 01 July 2016
...Kelly Baker Josephs Part of a special section titled “What Is Journal Work?,” this reflective essay discusses the ethical questions of editing sx salon: a small axe literary platform . The author's goal in the essay is twofold: to make transparent the work of journal work, the hours of labor...
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Life, Labor, and a Coolie Picturesque in Jamaica

Jenny Sharpe
Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 24–45.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9901583
Published: 01 July 2022
..., of whom 218,455 constituted field labor. Allen S. Ehrlich, “History, Ecology, and Demography in the British Caribbean: An Analysis of East Indian Ethnicity,” Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 27, no. 2 (1971): 166–80. 42 The United Fruit Company, Jamaica: The Summer Land (Boston: United...
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“Typical home of West Indian <span class="search-highlight">laborer</span>, Golden Green,” Panama Canal Zone, ca....

“Typical home of West Indian laborer, Golden Green,” Panama Canal Zone, ca....

in “Freak Letters”: Tracing Gender, Race, and Diaspora in the Panama Canal Archive > Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 July 2019
Figure 3 “Typical home of West Indian laborer, Golden Green,” Panama Canal Zone, ca. 1908. Photograph by Ernest Hallen. National Archives and Records Administration Still Pictures Department. More
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Dread Dialectics

David Austin
Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 228–238.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8749914
Published: 01 November 2020
... as a manifestation of the black radical tradition and a critical involvement with socialism. Drawing on C. L. R. James and Sylvia Wynter, it argues that black freedom struggles in the Americas and Europe, including slave revolts, have been an essential part of the history of labor and freedom struggles. It also...
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Dub Poetry as a Black Atlantic Body-Archive

Phanuel Antwi
Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 65–83.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3341825
Published: 01 November 2015
... the creative labor of this artistic project (the ways dub poets link sound to body to place to textuality) and helps us consider the conditions under which something new in black modernity is produced. Through this reconceptualization of the art form, the essay draws attention to ways dub extends Paul Gilroy's...
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The Politics of Disjuncture, or Freedom from a Caribbean Point of View

Greg Beckett
Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 184–192.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4156906
Published: 01 July 2017
...Greg Beckett This essay offers a critical discussion of Yarimar Bonilla's Non-Sovereign Futures: French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment (2015). It argues that Bonilla's account of labor politics in the French Department of Guadeloupe provides us with new ways of thinking about...
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Picturing an Afterlife of Indenture

Nalini Mohabir
Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 81–93.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4156798
Published: 01 July 2017
...Nalini Mohabir This essay engages with visual cues that point to an afterlife of indentureship across a culture, history, and economics of labor, evident as a felt presence or absence in photographic representations of Caribbean persons. The author re-views photographs (both archival and artistic...
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Inside and Outside the Exhibition Space: The Poetics and Politics of Colectivo Quintapata

Carlos Garrido Castellano, Magdalena Lopez
Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 31–52.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8749758
Published: 01 November 2020
...Carlos Garrido Castellano; Magdalena Lopez This essay deals with issues of citizenship, artistic labor, and belonging in the context of the Dominican Republic. It examines the collaborative work of the Colectivo Quintapata to understand how artistic collaboration is used as a way for generating...
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Through Archie Lindo’s Lens: Uncovering the Queer Subtext in Nationalist Jamaican Art

O’Neil Lawrence
Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 143–163.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8749830
Published: 01 November 2020
...O’Neil Lawrence; Deborah A. Thomas The “creation” of Jamaican national identity owed much to the artistic movement that preceded and followed independence in 1962. While depictions of the peasantry, particularly male laborers, have become iconic representations of “true” Jamaicans, the scholarship...
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Luisa Capetillo and the Counter-Republic of Letters

Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo
Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 112–120.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10211709
Published: 01 November 2022
... and expansion of the Counter-Republic of Letters in the Caribbean. In the process, she articulated multiple identities as a writer and a labor organizer. One hundred years after her death, Capetillo’s work carries radical potential and urgency in the present day. jorell.a.melendez-badillo@dartmouth.edu...
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The Birth of “Quow”: Michael McTurk and the Minstrel Origins of the Civic Tradition of Creole Verse

Ben Etherington
Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 31–51.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10211836
Published: 01 November 2022
... letter to the editor in which McTurk dons the racialized mask of his persona to warn that an inquiry into the abuse of indentured Indian laborers will provoke a violent response from the Afro-Guyanese community. The essay argues that the versification of Quow’s voice seeks to implant him as a “found...
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On Bankers and Empire : Racial Capitalism, Antiblackness, and Antiradicalism

Charisse Burden-Stelly
Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 175–186.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8604586
Published: 01 July 2020
... expropriation, labor superexploitation, and (neo)colonial absorption of financial risk. Next, it analyzes antiblackness—understood as legitimating architecture that devalues, distorts, criminalizes, and abjects those racialized as black—as a constitutive feature of racial capitalism. Finally, the essay...
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Her Name Was Doña Margot

César Colón-Montijo
Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 36–49.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9384198
Published: 01 July 2021
...César Colón-Montijo Margarita “Doña Margot” Rivera García (1909–2000) was a black working-class Puerto Rican woman whose labor as a composer, healer, midwife, and spiritual medium made her an esteemed community leader among her neighbors from Santurce, a predominantly black enclave in San Juan...
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Still Life

Richard Iton
Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 22–39.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-1665416
Published: 01 March 2013
.... Templates of black politics cast in more reflexive modes, in contrast, insist on and assist in the disclosure—that is, the opening up—of black and modern texts, including the emptier freedom narratives. Through various forms of labor and play, they seek to disrupt the teleological within not just black...
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Introduction: On History and Justice

Melanie J. Newton
Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 1–6.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2642719
Published: 01 March 2014
... in struggles for legal justice. At the same time, these three legal cases exemplify how forced labor and colonization practices remain lived realities, complicating efforts to translate historical analysis into legal redress. The Moloch tropical street vendor's punch line (“But what will be left...
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The Public Sphere and Jamaican Anticolonial Politics: Public Opinion, Focus , and the Place of the Literary

Raphael Dalleo
Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 56–82.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2010-005
Published: 01 July 2010
...Raphael Dalleo It has become commonplace to acknowledge that alongside the development of a powerful labor movement and the nation's first political party, Jamaica's literature came into its own during the 1930s and 1940s. This article explores how the different kind of work carried out in two...
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Communal Style: Indo-Caribbean Women's Jewelry

Joy Mahabir
Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 112–122.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4156822
Published: 01 July 2017
... by the perception of the jewelry as a commentary on sociohistorical realities and gendered labor practices. Artists working in the diaspora, including British-Guyanese jeweler Vannetta Seecharran, have created experimental pieces that still retain the minimalist and communal aesthetics traditionally associated...
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The Work of Disappointment

Christienna D. Fryar
Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 193–200.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4156918
Published: 01 July 2017
... an ethnography of Guadeloupean labor activism, Bonilla critiques modern notions of national sovereignty as the only and inevitable product of decolonization. Provocative as it is, her account challenges the methods, periodization, and habits of Caribbean history and highlights the blind spots of European studies...
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