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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 69–75.
Published: 01 March 2024
... Blackness our observer himself was in many ways both seen and unseen in the constructs of the Jamaican race/nation. In addition to the contradictions of race (ex)posed by the figure of the dundus, Carnegie points out that analogous exclusions are produced around the axes of gender and sexuality. He...
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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 (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 (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 (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 (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 12–24.
Published: 01 November 2009
... anthologized, a fact which should not surprise, since
Fanon is indeed consistently cited as one of the “founding fathers” of postcolonial theory.2
His writings radically challenged conventional approaches to the key concepts of race and
nationalism in postcolonialism and are claimed to have inspired...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 26–38.
Published: 01 July 2009
... of such a move is precisely
that it will bring gender and sexuality more clearly into focus as points of analysis in how we
define what isblack across nation and diaspora, the local and the global.
For hooks, the young black girl dies into the text of race and, “fascinated by [her...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 43–59.
Published: 01 July 2012
.... 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...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 1–17.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., to a place of rigid and violently drawn lines about just which bodies can be citizens. Sexuality, race, and gender norms, as well as expectations for youth behavior and punishment, cannot be disconnected from the nation; remember Jacqui Alexander's signal phrase, “Not just (any) body can be a citizen...
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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 (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 43–58.
Published: 01 July 2011
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sexual desire disidentifies from white heterosexuality.
None of the beach boys are represented as machos but only as romantic, sensitive, and
eager to please. Examples of this are Legba brushing Ellen’s hair and posing nude for her to
photograph. The boys’ youth, “race,” cheapness...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 189–198.
Published: 01 November 2016
... of interdisciplinary scholarship, including political theory, anthropology, and sociology, as well as critical race, gender, and sexuality studies. Furthermore, Horn intervenes in several fields. Within Dominican studies, she makes the rare juxtaposition with the anglophone and francophone Caribbean; in Latin American...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 59–68.
Published: 01 March 2024
... on the ongoing importance of Carnegie’s scholarship. [email protected] [email protected] © Small Axe, Inc. 2024 Postnationalism Prefigured Caribbean intellectual generations race and nation Caribbean anthropology On 22 October 2022 we gathered at the University of Virginia...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 197–208.
Published: 01 July 2011
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Literature (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010); Doris Garraway, The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French
Caribbean (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005); Vera Kutzinski, Sugar’s Secrets: Race and the Erotics of Cuban
Nationalism (Charlottesville: University of Virginia...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 1–20.
Published: 01 March 2004
... and the
turn to race-based politics as a means of voter mobilization. Part of the task is to specify
how gender and sexuality emerge as central in the creation of racialized Guyanese identi-
ties, such that assaulting particular constituencies of women can be seen as an attack...
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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 (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 180–190.
Published: 01 July 2014
... described the case in detail—does not displace the specificity of the sexual violence experienced by black women in slavery and well after but rather shows how in “the cotton field and in the courtroom, race took center stage. The racially gendered asymmetries of power governing segregation did more than...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 34–56.
Published: 01 July 2019
... and the Canal , 152. 19 T. B. Miskimon, “Memorandum for Acting Chairman,” 27 May 1910, Freak Letters (Obscene), NARA. 20 Jeffrey Parker, “Sexual Angst of Empire: Race, Manliness, and Prostitution on the Panama Canal, 1914–1921,” (paper presented at the annual Institute of Latin American Studies...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 1–15.
Published: 01 March 2010
... reflecting the unitary impulses of liberal humanism). Rather than grant pri-
macy to race, gender, or nationality as prediscursive—or, more popularly designated “contra-
dictory”—phenomena, we are better served by observing what becomes salient through the
field of play in which power reveals itself...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 48–62.
Published: 01 November 2017
... plots structural distinctions of difference along the intertwined grid of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality. In the quotidian language of Jamaican discourse, resentments are negative emotions that are harbored or ugly feelings that one holds on to. 17 Throughout the novel, Dawes frames...
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