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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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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 164–168.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., Raphaël Confiant, and Jean Bernabé. Éloge de la créolité has been much discussed and critiqued in relation to Antillean politics and literature; its claim to replace essentialist racial identities with an ever-evolving diversalité has been disputed by a variety of other authors from the Caribbean...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 109–117.
Published: 01 March 2015
... on Brazilian racial identities and cultural politics. In conclusion, it proposes that Hall was a thinker whose occasionally preacherlike style indicated an openness to his audience and whose writing was structured like music. 21 Hall, “What Is This ‘Black,’” 470. 20 Stuart Hall, in Gupta Sunil...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 134–149.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of a charged, explicit, and heightened sense of racial identity among young black Britons. This essay seeks to reflect on the influence of Jamaican 1970s on the creation of a second diaspora. In so doing, it utilizes examples of British reggae music, a photograph by Vanley Burke, and the poetry of Linton Kwesi...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 26–38.
Published: 01 July 2009
.... Interracial conflict has also defined the second, prominent understanding of blackness and racial identity formation in the United States. This second meaning, captured by the phrase race consciousness, implies both an understanding of the shared conditions and cul- tural bonds that might...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 107–117.
Published: 01 July 2009
... benefits both in black Jamaica and in white America, where he comes to fully appreciate just how much of a Jamaican he is, as well as to grasp the idiosyncrasies of Jamaican vs American constructions of whiteness vs blackness. This paper examines issues of racial and cultural identity raised, directly...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 85–98.
Published: 01 July 2018
... the growing field of Afro-Latinx feminism. It highlights issues that are central to current and revisionist discussions of Latina and Dominican gender, ethno-racial, and cultural identity. Copyright © 2018 by Small Axe, Inc. 2018 Raquel Cepeda New York City Afro- dominicana memoir This book...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 52–72.
Published: 01 October 2007
... the appeal of Romantic nationalism as a means of establishing national authenticity, her later work demonstrates how these norms, when transmitted to postcolonial black nationalism, displace more complex notions of national identity that take into account racial, sexual, and cultural hybridity. Small Axe...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 179–188.
Published: 01 November 2016
... an engagement with the operations of silence in the work of Hilma Contreras and of racialized gender identity formation in the novel Erzulie's Skirt by Ana-Maurine Lara, Decena considers more horizons made possible by the opening in the study of Dominican literature that Horn traces. In addition to registering...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 83–90.
Published: 01 July 2021
... of its actual and apparent doctrinaire lauding of Guillén as exemplar of Cuba’s cultural politics. © Small Axe, Inc. 2021 Afro-Cuban women literary criticism racial identity Cuban Revolution This special section on Nancy Morejón’s Nación y mestizaje en Nicolás Guillén ( Nation...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 34–51.
Published: 01 October 2007
... and social purposes. Is Blackness Factual? It is common understanding among scholars that race is not a biological fact, but the product of social and historical processes.4 Yet, in spite of many challenges to the presumed natural- ness of racial identities and differences, the idea of race (like...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 125–141.
Published: 01 July 2021
... highlight racial discourse. © Small Axe, Inc. 2021 Nancy Morejón Nicolás Guillén mestizaje performing race In the context of revolutionary Cuba, discourses of identity are veiled behind and shrouded in discussions and performances of nation and nationality. Consideration of the paradoxical...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 22–38.
Published: 01 November 2011
... by which to identify and analyze the constructions of racialized cultural identities, with attention, in particular, to African heritage. small axe 36 • November 2011 • DOI 10.1215/07990537-1443268 © Small Axe, Inc. 36 • November 2011 • Myriam J...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 29–49.
Published: 01 November 2015
... spirits) is a potentially fruitful direction in recognizing the limits of culture and identity and their relationship to racial discourse in diaspora studies. © Small Axe, Inc. 2015 culture concept embodiment Diasporas tell innumerable stories. The people, products, and processes...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 132–141.
Published: 01 July 2019
... of the twentieth centuries. In this regard, Ramírez’s nuancing of the historical alterations of the poet’s phenotype as a sign of the intricate relationship of Dominicans to blackness is worth considering and engaging in current and future dialogues on Dominican racial identity. Perhaps in an attempt to decolonize...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 125–137.
Published: 01 November 2013
..., the collaboration between Césaire, Cabrera, and Lam was significant not simply for bringing together three Caribbean artists but also because of the important role these individuals played in shaping ideas of blackness and racial identity in the region. 6 If Césaire's poem heralded the birth of an anticolonial...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 152–166.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of racial attitudes in national identity were taking place. My aim here will not be an exhaustive treatment of Nettleford's book but rather an attempt to capture something of the ethos that shapes its purposes, its ideological and conceptual preoccupations. However, while Nettleford's own contexts...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 111–123.
Published: 01 November 2017
... and nation in independence through the national motto. It contends that an aspiration to brownness was embedded in the identity politics emerging therein, which served to obscure the racial order and maintain the subordinate place of blackness in postcolonial Jamaica. © Small Axe, Inc. 2017 Creole...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 94–111.
Published: 01 July 2017
... identity in the postapartheid period. Through an analysis of her aesthetic practice, this essay examines the way the artist forges a transnational Afro-Asian feminist framework that links Africa, Asia, and the Americas by emphasizing the various forms of violence—state, domestic, sexual, racial, colonial...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 72–89.
Published: 01 July 2009
... as well. But in what ways (emphasis here on the plural) is the United States becoming other? How do state-authorized self-recognition, black identity, and white sensitivities to racial inclusion, as well as other ways the government is prone to recognize race, morph...