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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 1–17.
Published: 01 March 2018
... 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...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 64–71.
Published: 01 July 2018
... influence—similar to how questions of race and Dominican-Haitian relations have recently been approached by scholars. The essay highlights how the longstanding androcentric focus on Rafael Trujillo’s dictatorship (1930–61) and his heterosexual exploits have given way to a recuperation of Dominican women...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 35–56.
Published: 01 July 2018
... of Caribbean Chinese familial intimacies from the colonial archive. Engaging shared themes of migration and racialized ideas of reproduction, three contemporary diasporic visual artists—Albert Chong, Richard Fung, and Tomie Arai—mine oral histories and family archives to blend aural and visual narratives...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 18–38.
Published: 01 March 2018
... to account for “a long experience of dehumanizing attempts to control Black women’s reproductive lives,” from slavery to forced sterilization and selective (racist) deployment of birth control. Dorothy E. Roberts, Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (New York: Pantheon...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 201–218.
Published: 01 July 2024
..., “race/gender organizes labor but also normativities, institutionalities, subjectivities, modes of embodiment thus modes of knowing and sensing . . . [and] reproduction of the capitalist colonial world” (40). In tune, Godreau-Aubert’s “pedagogy of the indebted woman” flows from this decolonial feminist...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 191–193.
Published: 01 March 2018
... J ennifer L. M organ is a professor of history in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and the Department of History at New York University. She is the author of Laboring Women: Gender and Reproduction in the Making of New World Slavery (2004) and the coeditor of Connexions...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 1–14.
Published: 01 November 2023
... on a uniquely formative moment: the last years of colonial rule punctuated by the raced tensions that gave way to a revolution that forever altered the global colonial order. Vieux-Chauvet’s use of dialogue, gestures, and eavesdropping illustrate the duplicity of White characters, while foregrounding...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 181–190.
Published: 01 March 2022
... in Maroon studies, where the reproduction of Black life outside the constraints of the plantation system required settling in what were considered uninhabitable places. Similarly, to mobilize a politics built around Blackness always already lends itself to a kind of fugitive insurgent politics, since anti...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 201–204.
Published: 01 July 2023
... SJ Z hang is assistant professor of English at the University of Chicago. Their current project, “Going Maroon and Other Forms of Family,” considers how reproduction and carceral forces shaped the decisions and triggered the archives of four women who went maroon in North America...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 1–3.
Published: 01 July 2009
... conjoined with lyrics (by Lewis Allen) that proffer a weirdly organic reproduction and
harvesting of lynched black bodies hanging from poplar trees in the southern United States.
The second part of the title, interrogating transnational blackness, is meant to signal an
engagement...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 117–146.
Published: 01 November 2023
... in Marxist analyses. 39 In this same vein, it could also be argued that, in critically engaging and critiquing Marx while adding elements that have been largely absent in Marxist analyses, Ferreira da Silva too has added to Marxist analysis (here I am thinking specifically of social reproduction, but also...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2024
... Notebook passages, Césaire’s surrealist-inflected reproductive mode indicates not just a newly generated being but also new modes of existence and experience. For one, they evince an alternative experience of time, a proleptic temporality that moves against teleological expectations, reminiscent of José...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 48–62.
Published: 01 November 2017
... for intellectual flight from the island. Critiquing a brand of intellectual activism that mobilized around race and an uncomplicated championing of the folk, this campus novel demonstrates that intellectuals cannot be homogeneously categorized as nationalist, and that, in fact, they did not achieve any sense...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 113–128.
Published: 01 March 2016
.... © Small Axe, Inc. 2016 Race humanism black radicalism anticolonialism blackness sociality I shall command the islands to be. —Aimé Césaire, “Lost Body” We groped for coherence and failed. —Sylvia Wynter, “Creole Criticism: A Critique” In his 1924–25 essay “Goethe's Elective...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 219–231.
Published: 01 July 2018
... on a significant body of feminist work that includes such scholars as Patricia Mohammed, Rhoda Reddock, Verene Shepherd, Madhavi Kale, and Brinda Mehta. 5 Bahadur also joins a growing number of scholars and cultural producers attending to the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and coloniality in shaping...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 62–76.
Published: 01 March 2019
... postcolonial moment, in which ideas of race-class, gender, nation, sovereignty, and citizenship were in contestation and under pressure, what does it mean to render that moment by way of popular fiction—a genre that, we are told, eschews political and epistemological complexity in favor of stoking and sating...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 274–277.
Published: 01 July 2013
.... Her research is located within the field of feminist political economy and engages broad questions of social transformation, neoliberalism, and the politics of gender, race, and class in the Caribbean and its diaspora. She has published articles on neoliberal governmentality, social reproduction...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 179–189.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Judith Rodríguez This review essay of Rocío Zambrana’s Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico (2021) illustrates Zambrana’s own intervention into “race/gender/class” hierarchies as carrying their own relations of power within her rewriting of the “plantation complex,” using the colony of Puerto...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 1–20.
Published: 01 March 2004
... National Congress
(PNC Th at election and the following two, in 1997 and 2001, have made it patently
clear that the electoral process remains a site of racialization and racial reproduction.
Th is stalemate can be traced to the collapse of the broad-based, nationalist, Marxist...
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The Operations of the Closet and the Discourse of Unspeakable Contents in Black Fauns and My Brother
Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 1–18.
Published: 01 June 2006
.... This, coupled with
a traditional reticence about engaging the truths of human sexual life, is certainly a recipe
for disaster. The region and the world at large cannot afford to ignore the matter. Neither
the reproduction of heterosexism nor silence proves a productive response...
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