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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 201–218.
Published: 01 July 2024
..., and queer resistance” (132). [email protected] © 2024 by Small Axe, Inc. 2024 decolonial critique neoliberal coloniality historical colonialism radical vitalism reparations Rocío Zambrana Rocío Zambrana’s Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico is a timely intervention...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 219–231.
Published: 01 July 2024
... forms of triumphant subjectivity and sense making while affirming the possibility of binding life anew. Agustín Laó-Montes’s reading of the closing of the book as what he calls “radical vitalism” is thus suggestive. 67 In his Contrapunteo diaspóricos: Cartografías políticas de nuestra Afroamérica...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 113–128.
Published: 01 March 2016
... of Western humanism with a source of vitality that undercuts the mechanization of black life. Ultimately, what gets lost in the anticipation of critique is a certain appreciation of black social living. Building on Marx's understanding of labor-time as the measurement of productivity, Wynter argues...
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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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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 168–178.
Published: 01 June 2008
... as mnemonic
spectacle. These are knotty issues that, although present at the “inauguration” of Caribbean
intellectual history, assume today a vital centrality.
In thinking about these issues while reading Silvio Torres-Saillant’s An Intellectual History
of the Caribbean, one recalls Elsa Goveia’s...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 198–212.
Published: 01 July 2012
... explored the mutual imbrication of black transatlantic art, life, politics, sex, and class, from the significance of African-derived hair-weaving practices to figurations of gay sexuality in the age of AIDS to the “burden of representation” imposed on black artists. 8 The lasting vitality...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 104–110.
Published: 01 July 2015
... critically acclaimed work. For José, the iconographic silhouette, evacuated of the body, was a “deeply symbolic indention in the world,” an “after-[burn] of mimetically generated intensity” imbued with a vitalism he called brownness (192). Delineated across a series of essays, brownness was at the core...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 186–204.
Published: 01 November 2015
... it mean to say that these artists “made clear that the black body is bound to appear due to its vital place in the American cultural imaginary” (205), that they restored something that was missing from the visual field, when under Robinson's dispensation the black radical tradition signifies not something...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 228–238.
Published: 01 November 2020
... as a manifestation of the black radical tradition and a critical involvement with socialism. Drawing on C. L. R. James and Sylvia Wynter, it argues that black freedom struggles in the Americas and Europe, including slave revolts, have been an essential part of the history of labor and freedom struggles. It also...
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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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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 39–54.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Chris Moffat This essay examines the relationship between a radical politics and the institution of the archive through a history of the George Padmore Institute (GPI), a community archive attached to New Beacon Books in London. Focusing on the life and thought of John La Rose (1927–2006...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 205–224.
Published: 01 November 2015
..., objects, practices, and interlocutors. The present company is no exception. Best, whom I first encountered while a graduate student at Berkeley, makes brief but vital appearances in the book's first chapter on Fred Wilson and the third on Glenn Ligon, whose art provides the opening frame for his remarks...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 173–179.
Published: 01 July 2014
... (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993); Fred Moten, In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003). 5 Donna Jones, The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Négritude, Vitalism, and Modernity (New York: Columbia University...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 1–4.
Published: 01 March 2015
... in England in 1951. That story, which to some extent Stuart himself told, has an obvious truth to it as the story of the making of a distinctive voice that enabled the English to see something new about themselves. But to my mind it is a limited story because it misses something vital to understanding...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 66–83.
Published: 01 November 2023
... and argumentative apparatus that shapes How Europe Underdeveloped Africa ? And finally, fourth, If How Europe Underdeveloped Africa was not meant to engage an academic protocol but a Marxist politics of revolutionary social transformation, what is the idiom in which we might translate the radical impetus...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 59–66.
Published: 01 March 2023
... Practice: Mobilising the Dutch Black Radical Tradition,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 47, no. 18 (2020): 1–13; and Alice Boots and Rob Woortman, Anton de Kom: 1898–1945 / 1945–2009 (Amsterdam: Atlas Contact, 2009). 7 “Multatuli van Suriname”; Harry van der Ploeg, “Icoon van strijd...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): vii–xiv.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of novelty with radical or transformative content, to release it from the commodity-form in which it manifests itself (i.e., “in-built obsolescence”) in our global neoliberal present. As he says, in a discerning phrase, “Neoliberalism nullifies novelty.” Authentic novelty, real transformation, is what...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 54–69.
Published: 01 October 2006
... secondary school, exposed
LKJ to the fertile blend of socialist political-economic analysis and black consciousness that
characterizes the internationalist strands of the black radical tradition.1 In addition, as a young
member of the Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM) in London during the early 1970s...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 111–123.
Published: 01 November 2017
... complex to gain more than a measure of social and economic equality to get lasting fusion. And hence Manley says, “The immediate past has attempted to destroy the influence and the glory of Africa, attempted to make us condemn and mistrust the vitality, vigor, the rhythmic emotionalism that we get from...
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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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