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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
... this circular and self-sustaining opposition between racial mixture and ethnoracial division is to look at the ways that subaltern Caribbean peoples assume a critical perspective on discourses of cultural difference, mobilizing them as languages of both distinction and solidarity. Though early-twentieth...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (1): v–x.
Published: 01 February 2007
... People Keeping
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Struggle for Political Change in Grenada, 1883–1920...
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Peasant Sensibility and the Structures of Feeling of “My People” in George Lamming’s In the Castle of My Skin
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 34–50.
Published: 01 March 2023
...,” it examines the feeling of “my people” in its “dominant,” “residual,” and “emergent” dimensions. The author considers first how the dominant image of “my people” as “the enemy” gains consent from the characters and supports the hegemony of the ruling class. He then explores the African past illustrated...
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Dark Finance, Dark People
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 187–196.
Published: 01 July 2020
... in metropolitan countries and peoples of the global South into largely predictable slots of subordination, guided by common cultural and ideological assumptions about their proper place in the scheme of things. As social sciences scholars Paula Chakravartty and Denise Ferreira da Silva have written about the 2008...
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Rediscovering Julia de Burgos: The People's Rebel Soul Poet
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 188–202.
Published: 01 November 2017
...—in addition to the nationalist/socialist political and social positions championed in her early writings, and her critical stances against the powerful forces that deprived women, workers, people of color, and her beloved nation of the freedom, equality, and dignity that she viewed as inherent rights to our...
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Becoming the People's Poet: Claude McKay's Jamaican Years, 1889-1912
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 17–45.
Published: 01 March 2003
...Winston James Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Becoming the People’s Poet:
Claude McKay’s Jamaican Years, 1889-1912
Winston James
INTRODUCTION
n July 1912 Claude McKay, two months short of his twenty-third birthday, left his
island home for study in the United States. McKay would...
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Kanaval: A People's History of Haiti
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 135–141.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Leah Gordon Small Axe, Inc. 2010 Kanaval
a people’s history of haiti
Leah Gordon
Fantom (Ghost)
small axe 33 • November 2010 • DOI 10.1215/07990537-2010-028 © Leah Gordon
Kouvre fey
(Lanse kòd group called Curfew)
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Resisting Orthodoxy: Notes on the Origins and Ideology of the Working People's Alliance
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 63–81.
Published: 01 March 2004
...Nigel Westmaas Small Axe Incorporated 2004 Resisting Orthodoxy:
Notes on the Origins and Ideology
of the Working People’s Alliance
Nigel Westmaas
INTRODUCTION
n the wave of the popular response in the streets of Georgetown, the Working
People’s Alliance (WPA...
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Demonstrators at the Black People’s Day of Action, 2 March 1981, London, ca...
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in The Jamaican 1970s and Its Influence on the Making of Black Britain
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Published: 01 March 2019
Figure 2 Demonstrators at the Black People’s Day of Action, 2 March 1981, London, called to protest police inaction and government indifference to the New Cross Massacre. Among the signs and posters held by demonstrators were placards that declared “Blood Aga Run if Justice Na Come.” © Trinity
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The Boundary of Light: Buried Beings and Black Sacred Geographies
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 39–56.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Rachel Grace Newman This meditation on diasporic belonging, the limits of light and vision, and the practices people enact to become one with the earth examines watercolors done by British artist William Berryman while he lived in Jamaica between 1808 and 1816. It focuses on depictions...
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A section of Back-a-Wall, in West Kingston, in 1962. The destruction of poo...
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Figure 9. A section of Back-a-Wall, in West Kingston, in 1962. The destruction of poor people's homes began here in 1963. © 1962 The Gleaner Co. (Media) Ltd.
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Beyond Francophonie: Contextualizing Éloge de la créolité
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 199–210.
Published: 01 March 2017
...). It stresses the extent to which each of these other movements relied on active dialogue among differently positioned individuals, from artists and poets to dancers, musicians, journalists, publishers, and politicians—people with a variety of backgrounds and perspectives and priorities who engaged in debate...
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One Sustained Moment: The Constant Re-creation of Caribbean Sexualities
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 250–259.
Published: 01 March 2017
... and foreign white woman rather than between Caribbean people of African and Indian descent. King also addresses recent portrayals of Caribbean trans people and of Caribbean women who desire other women, in particular Shani Mootoo's Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab. Several recent court cases related...
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Bodies in the System
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 182–192.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Vanessa Agard-Jones As we consider the points of articulation between and among scales of analysis, Michel-Rolph Trouillot's theorization of how small places matter in the world, and further, of how seemingly marginal people might be central to our understanding of systems of power, remains...
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On Slavery, Césaire, and Relating to the World: An Interview with Patrick Chamoiseau
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 74–83.
Published: 01 November 2009
... relationship with a number of Caribbean writers, including Edouard Glissant, Derek Walcott and the recently-deceased Aimé Césaire. Working out of a number of familiar theoretical concepts (`créolité', `relation'), he articulates his vision of `mondialité', a global dynamic according to which the peoples...
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Bustling across the Canada-US Border: Gender and the Remapping of the Caribbean across Place
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 59–77.
Published: 01 July 2011
... and destination/away/settlement societies. This emphasis has arguably restricted our comprehension of the complexity of transnational practices that connect people not just with the place they left but across sites of migration. Drawing on the example of Caribbean women who travel regularly between Toronto...
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Turning the Tide: The Problem of Popular Insurgency in Haitian Revolutionary Historiography
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 14–31.
Published: 01 October 2008
...Nick Nesbitt This article explores the conceptual problem of popular insurgency in Haitian revolutionary historiography. Framed by fundamental questions of legitimate versus illegitimate insurgency, of the relationship between the elites and the people, and of the process of democratization...
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Caribbean Studies, Archive Building, and the Problem of Violence
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 27–42.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Deborah A. Thomas This essay discusses the process of field formation within Caribbean studies in relation to the building of archives, challenging Eurocentric conceptualizations of history and history making as well as counterdominant tropes about the region and the people who have inhabited...
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Returns to a Native Land: Indigeneity and Decolonization in the Anglophone Caribbean
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 108–122.
Published: 01 July 2013
... peoples have indigenized in the Caribbean and replaced the region's first aboriginal peoples. In particular, Guyana's debates over the Amerindian Act illustrate the profoundly colonial implications of adopting “indigenization” as actual state practice. © 2013 by Small Axe, Inc. 2013 History...
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What Happens to Black in the Afro-Surinamese Transatlantic Diaspora?
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 85–92.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Gloria Wekker This essay tells a narrative of various contexts in the Afro-Surinamese diaspora that share a struggle around the meanings of Black . What happens to Black in the Afro-Surinamese transatlantic diaspora? Some of the questions addressed are, Which terms have African descendant people...
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