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Forging Relational Difference: Racial Gendered Violence and Dispossession in Guyana
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 18–33.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Shanya Cordis Building on black and indigenous feminist scholarship, this essay examines the mutually constitutive processes of racial gendered violence and colonial dispossession undergirding Guyanese statecraft. Through an analysis of the colonial construction of the racial-sexual bodies...
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On Bankers and Empire : Racial Capitalism, Antiblackness, and Antiradicalism
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 175–186.
Published: 01 July 2020
..., imperialism, and (neo)colonialism in the epoch of US-led finance capitalism. Then it builds on Hudson’s concept of “racial capitalism,” which the author defines and explicates as a war-driven racially hierarchical global system constituting white supremacist accumulation, dependent extraction, imperial...
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Rogue Bankers, Black Radicalism, and the Caribbean History of Racial Capitalism
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 197–207.
Published: 01 July 2020
..., and Caribbean sovereignty; (2) the particular status and nature of the Caribbean region within the history of capitalism; (3) the nature and the meaning of the well-worn term racial capitalism ; and (4) the idea of “war” as a fundamental aspect of the modes of regulation and accumulation of said racial...
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Racial Hierarchy and the Elevation of Brownness in Creole Nationalism
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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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Criminalization on a World Scale: Racial Capitalism, Finance, and the Crime of Poverty in the Caribbean
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 169–180.
Published: 01 March 2022
.... It argues that difficult conversations about the processes that continue to produce the Caribbean as a racialized space of devalued surplus labor are needed nationally, regionally, and internationally before the region can truly embark on the road toward Black repair. In true mercantilist fashion...
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Whiteness as War by Other Means: Racial Complexity in an Age of Failed States
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 72–89.
Published: 01 July 2009
... this paper serves to critique a liberal progressive-activist tendency in the US that remains preoccupied with the very racial oppositions that such a tendency also ironically condemns. The contemporary juridical ethos finds its political analogue not in a post-white “cosmopolitan legal order,” as many would...
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“Da pa' lo' do' ”: Rita Indiana's Queer, Racialized Dominicanness
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 85–93.
Published: 01 July 2015
... Highway, the Massacre River operates as the “psychological border” between the countries. 4 The river itself served as the receptacle for the discarded bodies of Haitians killed by Trujillo's men in an effort to forcibly remove the Haitian population and racially cleanse the Dominican Republic. I...
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What Did the Ghosts Whisper? The Fact of Blackness in Dixa Ramírez’s Colonial Phantoms
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 142–151.
Published: 01 July 2019
... representations of the Dominican Republic as a space that is racially unconscious and reminds us of the overlooked history of free black experience in the eastern side of the island, pressing the reader to face the ghosted racialized realities that these facts highlight. This review considers the epistemological...
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“Todos los negros y todos los blancos y todos tomamos café”: Race and the Cuban Revolution in Nicolás Guillén Landrián's Coffea arábiga
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 55–75.
Published: 01 March 2015
... , to argue that the exploitation of black labor from Cuba's colonial legacy was perpetuated under the revolutionary state's agricultural policies. Through appropriating a highly politicized filmic aesthetic used by the Castro government to critique racial discrimination abroad, Coffea arábiga ironizes...
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The Difficulties of Naming White Things
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 186–197.
Published: 01 July 2012
...Eddie Chambers In considering Kobena Mercer's four-volume edited series Annotating Art's Histories (2004–8), Eddie Chambers sets out to critique the often unspoken but nevertheless hegemonic and complicated racial hierarchies that exist across many of the country's universities, with particular...
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Politicizing In/Security, Transnational Resistance, and the 1919 Riots in Cardiff and Liverpool
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 56–67.
Published: 01 November 2018
...David Featherstone This essay contributes to work on the contested racialized articulations of conjunctures by engaging with the spatial practices through which racialized in/securities became politicized in the period after the First World War. It explores the forms of opposition to riots against...
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What Is This Black in Black Diaspora?
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 26–38.
Published: 01 July 2009
... function as theoretical categories of lesser priority in the discussion of a racial diaspora imaginary, despite the hypervisibility of certain notions of black masculinity and femininity in popular cultural forms that travel between home and abroad. With readings of one canonical diaspora text, Frantz...
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Modern Dermabrasions: Black/Brown after Ren Ellis Neyra’s The Cry of the Senses
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 163–175.
Published: 01 July 2022
... that Ellis Neyra has identified across the fault lines of “Black/Brown” racial formations in a post-1492 context by paying specific attention to how these tensions crystalize in Latinx, Latin American, and Caribbean studies. The essay unpacks Ellis Neyra’s account of the breakdown of the concept of Brownness...
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Sensorial Errancy in Decolonial Key
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 144–153.
Published: 01 July 2022
... that is the present. It focuses in particular on Santiago Muñoz’s Otros Usos (2014), which specifically explores Vieques, Puerto Rico. To apprehend the past that is the present requires indexing the continuity of the plantation economy, and thus its racial order, in the military complex, in the tourist economy...
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The Dual Biopolitics in the Cuban Postplantation of Gloria Rolando’s Raíces de mi corazón
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 50–68.
Published: 01 July 2021
... of the black Cuban Partido Independiente de Color (the Independent Party of Color) and thousands of other Afro-Cubans through the plane of the intimate. The author argues that Rolando’s film challenges the myth of racial equality throughout Cuba’s modern history by celebrating Afro-Cuban traditions, from...
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From Haiti to Congo: Colonial Fault Lines in the Life and Work of Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 1–16.
Published: 01 July 2024
... women’s rights organization. This piece, a literary sketch, provides insights into Comhaire-Sylvain’s perspectives on working-class women, racial segregation, and the gendered division of labor. It explores the “Zone neutre” of Léopoldville (later Kinshasa) and reveals a Caribbean scholar’s observations...
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Material and Immaterial Bodies: Diaspora Studies and the Problem of Culture, Identity, and Race
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 29–49.
Published: 01 November 2015
... contemporary revisionist intentions. On the one hand, there is emphasis on hybridity and fluidity, while, on the other, diasporas are often encapsulated as discrete, implicitly or explicitly racialized groups, notably African and Indian or Asian. The essay considers key theoretical approaches in diaspora...
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Partus sequitur ventrem : Law, Race, and Reproduction in Colonial Slavery
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 1–17.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Jennifer L. Morgan From the moment of its introduction into the Atlantic world, hereditary racial slavery depended on an understanding that enslaved women’s reproductive lives would be tethered to the institution of slavery. At the same time, few colonial slave codes explicitly defined the status...
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One and Divisible: Meditations on Global Blackness
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 4–25.
Published: 01 July 2009
... descent as a homogeneous branch of the human famly. The article invites reflection on the need to study the black experience internationally without a preordained narrative of racial self-affirmation, warning that the expectation that blacks will articulate their racial identity everywhere in the same way...
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White but Not Quite: Tones and Overtones of Whiteness in Brazil
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 39–56.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Patricia de Santana Pinho This article analyzes anecdotes, jokes, standards of beauty, color categories, and media representations of “mixed-race” individuals to assess the junctions and disjunctions of whiteness and blackness in Brazil. While the multiple and contradictory meanings of “racial...
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