...Donnette Zacca Small Axe, Inc. 2010 Street Art as I See It: A Photographic Document Donnette Zacca There was a time when what was on the minds of the people echoed through the local untrained yet extremely talented artists. The neighborhood walls became blank...

... on Guyana's reception of Black Power. An exposition of the new documents forms the background to a broader discussion of Rodney's subsequent life and work, up to the point of his assassination in 1980. Small Axe Incorporated 2008 Seeing Darkly: Guyana, Black Power, and Walter Rodney’s Expulsion from...

... as governing body. She argues that “the Fiscal Control Board represents the collapse of a purported democracy in the colony” (64). She joins the anticolonial chorus that see the Fiscal Control Board as the return of bold colonialism unveiling imperial pretensions of postcolonial rule. Zambrana shows how...

... attitude to that evolution, however, was “complex” and “textured” (to use two of his favorite words). As we will see, he was certainly never uncritical of the movement's failures and shortcomings; but neither was he ever dismissive of its aspirations or achievements. He would always think of the process...

... explorations. King's work is notable for its bridging of the divide between scholarship, literature, and activism, producing new understandings of transgression and agency that challenge both those who see the Caribbean as homophobic and those who see gender-nonconformity and sexual freedom of expression...

...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...

... of interesting refigurings of black manhood outside of its current and historical spectacularizations that offer a lens for seeing black manhood differently, and thus thinking about black manhood differently. I am interested in highlighting modes of self-fashioning that allow for a reconstruction of black...

... that imaginatively reconnects communities of women that are fractured by the corruptive influence of the United States and other Western nations in the Latin Caribbean. The ghost of Graciela in Song of the Water Saints and the “living ghost” of Olivia in Soledad allow readers to see how matrilineal bonds in families...

... haunts the anglophone Caribbean. The focus is on how this haunting is palpable to the criminalized urban poor in Trinidad; yet Black has never simply denoted abjection. From the vantage point of postcolonial Caribbean nation-states founded on anticolonial projects of Black sovereignty, one can see...

... tends to be mentioned as merely anecdotal. This essay argues that Yugoslavia represented an important detour for Césaire. Césaire’s friendship with Guberina and his discovery of Martinska allowed him to see how the particularity of his historical experience as a member of the African diaspora could also...

..., the author sees hopeful signs that the Jamaican language is gradually gaining national prominence. [email protected] © Small Axe, Inc. 2023 Jamaican language politics neocolonialism bilingualism gender politics oral tradition Despite their fashionably postmodernist appearance...

... of White power. Denial and bad faith are not mere features of this psychic life; rather, they are fundamental conditions for its continued refusal to acknowledge the epistemic and ontological dimensions of Black humanity. This discussion essay examines how Gordon allows us to see the blues as a musical...

...Ananya Jahanara Kabir Carolyn Cooper’s influence as an academic converges with her important work as tastemaker and trendsetter for Jamaica and the wider Caribbean. In this personal homage to Cooper, charted through their meetings in Haiti, Jamaica, and London, the author proposes that we see...

... vision and light. She contemplates what we cannot see in these images: buried entities that formed a network of power known to enslaved people, engaging Katherine McKittrick’s theory of Black geographies. Through these entities, people of African descent established blood ties with the earth of Jamaica...

... of federation, particularly Richard B. Moore and George Padmore, developed their political perspectives through responses to the occupation. We can thus see the questioning of nation-state independence and the critique of neocolonialism (as a form of US economic imperialism allied with elites in the neocolony...

...Donette Francis; Deborah A. Thomas This essay argues that three lessons have emerged from the Jamaican Cultural-Political Modern Project convenings that clarify its productive methodological stakes: living with disagreements, seeing interconnected inquiries, and creating embodied archives...

... of the dominant North Atlantic interpretation of the “American James.” In particular, the author sees Kamugisha as seeming to accept without question the hegemonic Americanist assumption that James took a romantic excursion in the United States, and thus Beyond Coloniality neglects the deeply gendered analysis...

... for his subjects and collective recognition of difficult social realities. This essay argues that the artistic modality and political sensibility displayed in Jerry's graffiti can be productively read as participating in a form of “sympathetic education.” Jerry sees the urban landscape as a classroom...