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“The Word Is Love”: Michael Manley’s Style of Radical Political Will
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 169–186.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of political will. Emphatically, of course, Manley was an exemplary figure of the conjuncture in which he came of age, in which he found his political voice, namely, the third world 1970s—that great age of radical political will. In a very distinctive way Manley embodied the third world’s quest...
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Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth-Century Perspectives on Women in the Discourses of Radical Black Caribbean Men
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 116–139.
Published: 01 March 2003
...Wigmoore Francis Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century
Perspectives on Women in the Discourses
of Radical Black Caribbean Men
Wigmoore Francis
INTRODUCTION
t work in the deliberations of black radical thinkers in the nineteenth- and early...
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Indigenous Sexualities: Rosamond S. King's Island Bodies and the Radical Politics of Scholarship
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 241–249.
Published: 01 March 2017
... argues, “In these circumstances the organizations implicitly propose a radically different nation, one that retains its pride and culture—but which no longer demonizes, scapegoats, or disappears indigenous same-sex sexuality or those citizens who engage in it” (117). The notion of freedom is one...
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Circuits of Political Prophecy: Martin Luther King Jr., Peter Tosh, and the Black Radical Imaginary
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 17–41.
Published: 01 July 2010
... Prophecy:
Martin Luther King Jr., Peter Tosh,
and the Black Radical Imaginary
Carter Mathes
Peace is the diploma you get in the cemetery.
—Peter Tosh
I remember that during my childhood in Argentina, in the continuous performance cinemas
there was an announcement saying, “The performance...
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Radical Skepticisms: Literatures of the Long Jamaican 1960s
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 48–62.
Published: 01 November 2017
... representations of pessimisms that embraced life's absurd futility rather than its abject hopelessness. Reading the corpus of this Jamaican literary archive—twelve novels and one memoir—the author examines the heterogeneous nature of the decade's literary pessimisms, best characterized as a sensibility of radical...
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Thinking Beyond Coloniality: Toward Radical Caribbean Futures
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 169–170.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Mimi Sheller This essay reviews Aaron Kamugisha’s reading of the works of C. L. R. James and Sylvia Wynter in his 2019 book Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition . Kamugisha issues a resounding call to reenergize the radical Caribbean intellectual...
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Notes on Radical Hope; or, The Ethical Turn in Anthropology
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 186–198.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Nadège T. Clitandre Examining Greg Beckett’s 2019 There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince , this critical essay explores the notion of radical hope in the midst of tragedy and crisis in Haiti. It attempts to reframe the idea of hope from the perspective of a Haitian...
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Sisters Outside: Tracing the Caribbean/Black Radical Intellectual Tradition
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 217–229.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Carole Boyce Davies The authors response to Kevin Gaines' and Patricia Saunders' discussion of Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones. Claudia Jones Small Axe Incorporated 2009 Sisters Outside: Tracing
the Caribbean/Black Radical
Intellectual Tradition...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 1–6.
Published: 01 March 2013
...David Scott This short essay offers one frame in which to think about the idea of a black radical tradition, a term whose elements are all essentially unstable and contested. What is at stake is a historically minded inquiry into “uses” rather than “meanings”—that is, the historical conjunctures...
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Pearl Primus and the Idea of a Black Radical Tradition
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 40–49.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Farah Jasmine Griffin This essay explores the extent to which the concept of “a black radical tradition” illuminates or limits understandings of the art and activism of dancer, choreographer, and activist Pearl Primus. Focusing on Primus's emergence as a public figure and artist during the 1940s...
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A Queer Pier: Roundtable on the Idea of a Black Radical Tradition
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 84–95.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Nijah Cunningham Marking the close of the conference “The Idea of a Black Radical Tradition,” this roundtable served as a workshop for participants to explore, extend, and trouble the cultural and political discourse of black radicalism. © 2013 by Small Axe, Inc. 2013 After two days...
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The Radical Vision of Si-lan Chen: The Politics of Dance in an Age of Global Crisis
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 28–43.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Elizabeth E. Sine This essay explores the making of a radical cultural politics amid the global crisis of the 1930s and 1940s through a study of the life and work of dancer Si-lan Chen. Born in Trinidad to Afro-Caribbean and Chinese parents, trained as a ballerina in Moscow, and an active supporter...
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Other Radicals: Anton de Kom and the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 52–58.
Published: 01 March 2023
... intellectual tradition anticolonial critique Black radical thought Anton de Kom Coming to Anton de Kom—Wayne Modest: It was only in 2006 that I first encountered Anton de Kom and his 1934 book Wij slaven van Suriname ( We Slaves of Suriname ). 1 Schooled as I was in what some have described...
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History, Method, and Myth: Walter Rodney and the Geographies of Black Radicalism
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 95–116.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., the author first discusses Rodney’s engagements with the University of California, Los Angeles, as part of a longer history of Black intellectual and political activism and the geographies of Black radicalism on campus. The author then explores the question of methodology in Rodney’s book, especially...
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Anticolonial Radicals in Different Registers: On Otto and Hermina Huiswoud’s Black Communism
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 87–109.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Mayaki Kimba While Otto and Hermina Huiswoud are often remembered as foot soldiers of the Communist International (Comintern), if not as doctrinarian Stalinists, this essay proposes that such depictions misunderstand the registers in which Black radicals speak. Before World War II...
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Beyond Antagonism: Otto and Hermina Huiswoud as Participants in Caribbean Radicalisms
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 124–139.
Published: 01 November 2024
... overlapping—yet very distinctive—radicalisms. Via the Negro Worker , the organ of the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers, the Huiswouds participated in this intellectual ferment emanating from the Caribbean and crucially hooked into African continental and diasporic readings of colonial rule...
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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
... the epistemological and political purview of the radical wing of black studies, the essay focuses on four topics that appear in Plummer’s and Burden-Stelly’s comments: (1) the question of class, and in particular the role of the Caribbean middle classes, in the history of finance, banking, imperial expansion...
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Puerto Rican Colonialism, Caribbean Radicalism, and Pueblos Hispanos ’s Inter-Nationalist Alliance
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 50–68.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., and more widely, Spanish caribeños , within a Marxist-inflected Caribbean radical tradition. Copyright © 2019 by Small Axe, Inc. 2019 25 José Enamorado Cuesta, “Bolívar,” in Euforia (San Juan: Arroyo, 1949), 29 26 “Los quijotes del siglo que retan los gigantes”; José Dávila Semprit...
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Disarticulating Black Internationalisms: West Indian Radicals and The Practice of Diaspora
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 100–111.
Published: 01 March 2005
... Black Internationalisms:
West Indian Radicals and
The Practice of Diaspora
Michelle Stephens
ne of Claude McKay’s unique contributions to the fi eld of transnational black
studies was his ability to bridge the multiple cultural worlds of the African dias-
Opora. As much...
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To the “Sons” of Dessalines and of Pétion: Radicalism and the Idea of a “New” Haiti
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 164–172.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Millery Polyné This article examines the benefits and limitations of radicalism in Haiti during the post–US occupation period—1934–57. This critical and underexplored period, which Matthew J. Smith examines in his Red and Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934–1957...
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