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Redefining Mestizaje : How Trans-Caribbean Exchanges Solidified Black Consciousness in Cuba
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 91–108.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Devyn Spence Benson; Antonio López This essay recovers the history of 1960s and 1970s black movements in Cuba through an examination of works by Afro-Cuban intellectuals and their meetings with Caribbean thinkers to show the coexistence of mestizaje and black consciousness as a defining...
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Introduction: Literature and the State in Nancy Morejón
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 83–90.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Antonio López; Antonio López This essay introduces a special section on the Afro-Cuban poet and intellectual Nancy Morejón’s 1982 book Nación y mestizaje en Nicolás Guillén ( Nation and Mestizaje in Nicolás Guillén ). It sets up the contributors by surveying the literary and political trajectory...
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Nation, Race, and Performance in the Poetics of Nicolás Guillén and Nancy Morejón
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 125–141.
Published: 01 July 2021
... analysis in her seminal 1982 work Nación y mestizaje en Nicolas Guillén as a springboard, the objective of this work is two-fold—to explore how the Cuban nation is reimagined in the poetry of Nicolás Guillén and to dissect the use of metaphors such as mestizaje as performances of nation that in turn...
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Nancy Morejón, Nicolás Guillén y el cimarronaje aún necesario en Cuba contemporánea
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 109–124.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Odette Casamayor-Cisneros; Antonio López This intersectional and epistemological study of Nancy Morejón’s 1982 Nación y mestizaje en Nicolás Guillén resolves the tension, which intrigued most of her critics, between her political commitment and sophisticated lyricism. The author examines Morejón’s...
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Transnational Renderings of Negro / a / x /*: Re-centering Blackness in AfroLatinidad
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 93–99.
Published: 01 July 2022
....” Doing so allows us to grapple with the debates and disagreements around how mestizaje and White supremacy are indeed intertwined in ways that occlude Blackness yet give license for AfroLatinidad to be usurped. If we consider the embodied archive a representation of the experiences of transnational...
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Mas yo resto: Entrevista con Nancy Morejón
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 142–150.
Published: 01 July 2021
... argumentos (La Habana: Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba, 1967), y Parajes de una época (La Habana: Letras Cubanas, 1979). 1 Nancy Morejón, Nación y mestizaje en Nicolás Guillén (La Habana: Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba, 1982). Quiero darle las gracias a Nancy Morejón por...
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La Caldosa : Afro-Lesbian Space-Making and Transnational Politics in Havana
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 32–48.
Published: 01 November 2023
... ello se ha hecho nuestro nacional ajiaco. . . . Mestizaje de cocinas, mestizaje de razas, mestizaje de culturas. 21 In Ortiz’s (orientalizing) vision of the constitution of cubanidad, the ajiaco serves as a foundational myth where the various influences from Europe, Africa, and Asia mix...
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Transnationalism, Diaspora, Politics, and The Caribbean Postcolonial
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 189–197.
Published: 01 February 2006
...” and the project of nation building in Cuba and Mexico, respectively. In addition
to these conceptions of mestizaje, Puri scrutinizes specific constructions of “jibarismo”
and “creolization” in order to show how they were used to “stabilize the contradictions in
populist bourgeois nationalism” as well as how...
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The “Contemporaneous Local” in Time: Problems of History in Shalini Puri's The Caribbean Postcolonial
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 198–205.
Published: 01 February 2006
...” and the project of nation building in Cuba and Mexico, respectively. In addition
to these conceptions of mestizaje, Puri scrutinizes specific constructions of “jibarismo”
and “creolization” in order to show how they were used to “stabilize the contradictions in
populist bourgeois nationalism” as well as how...
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After the Fact: A Response to My Critics
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 218–229.
Published: 01 February 2006
...” and the project of nation building in Cuba and Mexico, respectively. In addition
to these conceptions of mestizaje, Puri scrutinizes specific constructions of “jibarismo”
and “creolization” in order to show how they were used to “stabilize the contradictions in
populist bourgeois nationalism” as well as how...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 230–232.
Published: 01 February 2006
...” and the project of nation building in Cuba and Mexico, respectively. In addition
to these conceptions of mestizaje, Puri scrutinizes specific constructions of “jibarismo”
and “creolization” in order to show how they were used to “stabilize the contradictions in
populist bourgeois nationalism” as well as how...
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Guyana, Cuba, Venezuela and the “Routes” to Cultural Reconciliation between Latin America and the Caribbean
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 28–58.
Published: 01 February 2006
...) nationalism and predomi- nantly white Latin cultural nationalism, with their attendant discourses of créolité and mestizaje, to meet. Over the years, however, Castro s expression of solidarity with black culture proved less resilient. Further, Burnham s discourse of cooperatism, coupled with a black...
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White but Not Quite: Tones and Overtones of Whiteness in Brazil
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 39–56.
Published: 01 July 2009
... Destiny in the United States) and those countries in which
whiteness has silently become hegemonic through discourses of mestiçagem/mestizaje. In
Brazil, as in other Latin American countries, whiteness is less frequently explicitly marked than
it is more commonly implicitly...
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Julia de Burgos and the Mourning of Community
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 203–208.
Published: 01 November 2017
... Hispanic and nationalist agenda, that while embracing blackness did so under the traditional views of mestizaje . Also, her views of mestizaje relied on the embrace of indigenous, black, and European cultures. As a believer in independence for Puerto Rico, Burgos had to subscribe to traditional family...
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Two Returns to the Native Land: Lydia Cabrera Translates Aimé Césaire
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 125–137.
Published: 01 November 2013
.... 37 “Se trata de una mirada epidérmica, centrada en lo exterior, en el gesto, en el sonido exótico, en el pigmento.” Luis Duno Gottberg, Solventar las diferencias: La ideología del mestizaje en Cuba (Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2003), 89. 36 De la Fuente, A Nation for All , 157–59. See also...
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Black Caribs / Garifuna: Maroon Geographies of Indigenous Blackness
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 134–146.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of the Americas), and mestizaje (read, their census categorization as Hispanic/Latino in the Central American nation-states they reside in and in the United States). Performance transmits memories, makes political claims, and manifests a group’s sense of identity and belonging. 27 I read Garifuna...
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Borderlands and Border Crossers: Migrants and Boundaries in the Greater Caribbean, 1840–1940
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 7–21.
Published: 01 March 2014
..., Administrar los extranjeros: Raza, mestizaje, nación; Migraciones afrobeliceñas en el Territorio de Quintana Roo, 1902–1940 (Mexico City: CIESAS, IRD, Karthala Collections Esclavages, forthcoming 2014). 14 The conference cycle organized by Annette Insanally through the Latin American–Caribbean Centre...
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Abduction and the Grounds of Caribbean Reasoning
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 182–189.
Published: 01 July 2021
... Caribbean discourses around mestizaje , indigenismo , even mulataje . I want to stress, however, that the elite provenance of these discourses is not coextensive with their popular deployment. This is one of the moments that give me pause in Kamugisha’s brilliant work: What might be the political...
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Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, the Quintessential Maroon: Toward an African Diasporic Epistemology
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 132–141.
Published: 01 March 2020
... and transcultural political pluralism as a source of intellectual and political wisdom. On the other hand, we are asked to challenge Latin American identity narratives of mestizaje , which has left almost no space for those who are perceived as having failed at whitening their phenotypes and cultures through...
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The Precarity of Intramural Theorizing
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 179–189.
Published: 01 July 2024
...’ and ‘spirit’ from which our ‘cosmic and universal latinidad’ and ‘mestizaje’ is supposedly born, keep paying the high price of forced integration into this discursive identity.” 13 Bárbara I. Abadía-Rexach expands on this assertion, stating in an interview with LetraUrbana , “Black communities continue...
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