...Jorge L. Giovannetti Small Axe Incorporated 2006 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. The Elusive Organization of “Identity”: Race, Religion, and Empire Among Caribbean Migrants in Cuba Jorge L...

...Vivian Nun Halloran Small Axe Incorporated 2006 Race, Creole, and National Identities in Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea and Phillips’s Cambridge Vivian Nun Halloran As postmodern historical novels dramatizing slavery and its legacy in the anglophone Carib- bean islands, Jean Rhys’s...

...Kim Robinson-Walcott Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Claiming an Identity We Thought They Despised: Contemporary White West Indian Writers and Their Negotiation of Race Kim Robinson-Walcott It is not a question of relinquishing privilege. It is a question of grasping more...

... into the newly patriotic cause of racial solidarity. Only a month before Caresser's debut on the CBC in 1946, the Toronto Star ran a tongue-clucking report clearly meant as proof of Canada's superiority over the United States with respect to race relations. Portia White, the renowned African Canadian contralto...

... that these concepts do offers a clearer picture of the ways they may inadvertently reproduce race-inflected premises contrary to the scholarly mission of diaspora studies. The primary advantage of the culture concept, particularly in anthropology, is that it takes notions of difference that distinguish “self...

... of these children. This essay explores English slave codes regarding reproduction under slavery alongside the experience of reproduction to suggest that legislative silences are not the final word on race and reproduction. The presumption that their children would also be enslaved produced a visceral understanding...

...Sharina Maillo-Pozo This essay examines Raquel Cepeda’s memoire, Bird of Paradise. How I Became Latina , through the intersections between Dominican latinidad , gender, race, and hip-hop. By exposing other discourses of latinidad as performed and imagined in New York City by an afrodominicana...

... of the PNP’s execution of its vision and, critically, of the Jamaican population itself, from these literary perspectives. With the PNP’s defeat in 1980, race and class relations quickly reverted to the status quo position of white (light) economic power/black subservience. The year would signify not only...

... to the Cuban nation, from its inception, to independence, through the Republic and immediately prior to the Revolution. In addition, a discussion of this relation must consider the discreet comments on race made via official policies, speeches, and discourses on the subject. Using Nancy Morejón’s critical...

... otherwise compelling account of Du Bois nevertheless obscures an alternative, conceptually richer way in which Du Bois's thought is exorbitant to his own thinking on the question of race. This involves understanding the constitution of race as a colonial-political practice that is named here as “race...

...Dixa Ramírez This essay amplifies some of Maja Horn's arguments in Masculinity after Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature (2014). First, the essay adds texture to Horn's assessment of the Trujillo regime in relation to race by arguing that what Horn discerns as the Trujillato 's...

.... In so doing, the authors highlight the ways historical gender and racial stereotypes inform contemporary understandings of Caribbean gender and sexuality. Anchoring this discussion in recent theories about sex and sexuality and specifically examining mixed-race and white Caribbean women, Sam Vásquez...

...Carolyn Cooper Small Axe Incorporated 2004 Enslaved in Stereotype: Race and Representation in Post‐Independence Jamaica Carolyn Cooper Dat fi bruck up an dash weh.¹ —Taxi driver document here in chronological order my contribution to the local...

..., and the delimitation of national, ethnic, or political communities. © Small Axe, Inc. 2014 Race relations Trinidad Indo-Caribbean Afro-Caribbean solidarity through difference “My wife will quarrel with me long time, asking me, ‘How come you only like negroes?’” Krishna shot a glance at his wife, Asha...

... experienced tremendous backlash in the Cuban press and was demoted to researcher. The juxtaposition of these two events points to an enduring dissonance between Cuba's support of black liberation movements abroad and its domestic discourse on race, in which people have had to struggle, sometimes risking...

.... These are economies that rely on Dominicans being ambiguous in their sexuality as well as their emotional commitments. 12 Homonormativity colludes with the neoliberal development of a tourism-based economy to make invisible the raced, classed, and gendered realities of queer Dominicans whose gender variation would...

... 1993–94): 95–127; Vicente Rafael, “Colonial Domesticity: White Women and United States Rule in the Philippines,” American Literature 67, no. 4 (1995): 639–66; Ann Laura Stoler, Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (Berkeley: University of California Press...

...), reprinted as Negro: An Anthology , edited, abridged, and with an introduction by Hugh Ford (New York: F. Ungar, 1970). See also Jane Marcus, “Bonding and Bondage: Nancy Cunard and the Making of the Negro Anthology ,” in Hearts of Darkness: White Women Write Race (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University...

...Timothy S. Chin On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of Charles V. Carnegie’s Postnationalism Prefigured (2002), this essay extends Carnegie’s insights about the inadequacy of using concepts of race as the foundation for nationalism to explore the social exclusions that are enforced...

... evolved in the context of current discussions of black cross-culturality and diaspora. New concerns have emerged about the relevance of US notions of race and blackness for describing the cultures, experiences, and identities of members of other diasporic populations. Also, gender and sexuality still...