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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 29–55.
Published: 01 July 2015
... of whom, particularly the first, were heavily recruited as prospective immigrants in the years just after the war.) Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King was more explicit, and even more high-minded, about the service's intended role in the project of postwar national identity, in which race figured...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 125–141.
Published: 01 July 2021
... 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...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 87–104.
Published: 01 October 2006
...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...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 69–75.
Published: 01 March 2024
...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...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 83–88.
Published: 01 March 2024
... us is that the modernity of control and containment is continually one or two steps behind the countermodernity of subalterns, and that autonomy is rooted not in the race-nation-territory triad but in the everyday movements within, across, and beyond it. 11 Ibid., 19. 10 Robin Wagner...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 132–141.
Published: 01 July 2019
... of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and nationality? How do the works of these women remind us that silences, omissions, and exclusions from dominant narratives are irresolute forms of violence executed and perpetuated by Western powers and constantly replicated by the Dominican intellectual and economic...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 106–121.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of Postnationalism Prefigured , “World Community Imagined,” sketches out a vision of world community that might afford the world’s peoples a new basis for grounding social identity and for rebuilding communities from the ground up, freed from the delusions and contradictions of race-nation and other conceptual...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 17–41.
Published: 01 July 2010
... intersecting yet divergent narratives of race and nation. In this context, I examine works and performances by Martin Luther King Jr. (during his 1965 speeches in Kingston) and Peter Tosh (during his 1978 One Love Peace Concert performance) as a way of framing how discourses of black liberation, postcolonial...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 111–123.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Maziki Thame This essay looks at the place of race in Creole Nationalism in Jamaica. It asserts that Creole Nationalism is also Brown Nationalism in Jamaica and that its racial ideas can be seen through the thought of Norman Manley, the father of Creole Nationalism; his wife Edna, its cultural...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 52–72.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Jocelyn Fenton Stitt This essay argues that Jamaican-American Michelle Cliff's writing should be understood within a new interpretive framework which sees post-independence Caribbean literature as inheriting gendered and raced legacies of Romantic nationalism. While Cliff's early work shows...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 149–159.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Jana Evans Braziel In her contribution, Braziel resists Torres-Saillant's valorization of diaspora as the anti-dote to national paradigms. As an organizing rubric, “Caribbean diaspora” obscures nationality, class, race, gender, sexuality, and political economy as striating diasporas and diasporic...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 20–35.
Published: 01 March 2012
... maintained for the next forty years. This essay situates the novel and the character Lowe within contemporary scholarship on migration, nation, and “transing,” and argues that Powell's novel interrogates the relationships between the body, nation, history, and memory. Lowe is a figure who, similar to many...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 72–89.
Published: 01 July 2009
... of violence already here. My first provocation is to locate
the current state of US planetary sovereignty—or the ambition for such—between Hobbes’s
eternal expectation of “Warre,” and Kant’s “graveyard of the human race.”2 I want to suggest
that there is something fundamental in the US nation-state...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 87–99.
Published: 01 March 2023
... the oppression and exploitation of people on the basis of “race” and class, both during the period of slavery and after its abolition. Although he became known as a national hero in Suriname, in the former colonial metropole of the Netherlands his name, work, and life story were relatively unknown. In 2020...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 179–189.
Published: 01 July 2024
.... And there is a seeming “subversive interruption” (to follow Zambrana’s framing in Colonial Debts ) to this nationalism that her crucial claims on the anti-Black ground of the racial order of the Puerto Rican plantation system performs in the epigraph above (15). This interruption shapes a different ground on which race...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 77–96.
Published: 01 March 2019
... was idiotically flawed about Manley and his programme: it was all too doltishly theoretical.” 14 Part of the reason for Manley’s unpopularity among the managerial and middle classes in Jamaica was firmly rooted in the Jamaican thinking about race. In our national identity, blackness [connoted] not merely...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 81–96.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Jamaica’s police force, the inquiry nevertheless foregrounds how sexual regulation operates through the interconnected workings of race, class, gender, and nation. © 2020 Small Axe, Inc. 2020 queer history transnational Jamaica In March 1951, Wills O. Isaacs, a member of Jamaica’s House...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 64–71.
Published: 01 July 2018
... current focus on Dominican conceptions of race, nation, and Dominican-Haitian relations. These questions became especially pertinent again with a notorious 2013 Dominican ruling that effectively denationalized thousands of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic and Dominicans of Haitian descent. While...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 133–150.
Published: 01 March 2002
... constructions of
race, nation, class, and gender and how these constructions change over time. * e
Pconstruction of the nation, national identities and national discourses involves includ-
ing and excluding individuals as well as ranking people based on race, gender, ethnicity,
class and culture...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 123–131.
Published: 01 July 2019
... University Press, 1996), 5. 10 Ibid., 9; García-Peña quotes Frederick Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1892; repr., New York: Collier, 1962), 398. 9 Lorgia García-Peña, Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction (Durham, NC: Duke University Press...
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