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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 1–31.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Krista A. Thompson Small Axe Incorporated 2004 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Black Skin, Blue Eyes : Visualizing Blackness in Jamaican Art, 1922 1944 Krista A. Thompson From the opposite end...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 34–50.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Tohru Nakamura This essay argues that George Lamming’s In the Castle of My Skin presents an aesthetic quest into an alternative Caribbean subjecthood built on the capacity of feeling. Studying various dimensions of affectivity along with what Raymond Williams called “structures of feeling...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 191–201.
Published: 01 July 2014
.... 46 But neither self-othering nor self-positiveness have the monopoly on attitudes toward African skin color, as is evidenced in the continuing controversy over skin bleaching in Jamaica. In 2011 this was brought to the surface once again with a lecture, “Pretty Like a Colouring Book...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 39–56.
Published: 01 July 2009
... of racial democracy, and some “types of mixture” are clearly preferred in detriment of others. I argue that anti-black racism in Brazil is expressed not only against dark-skinned individuals, but it also operates in the devaluing of physical traits “deemed black” even in those who have lighter skin...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 34–51.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Winnifred Brown-Glaude This essay examines public discussions around skin bleaching in Jamaica and demonstrates that a discourse of pathology is a dominant frame of meaning used to explain this practice. I argue that the practice of bleaching destabilizes popular conceptions of blackness that rely...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 26–38.
Published: 01 July 2009
... Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks , the article teases out what is at stake in making US based comparisons when discussing racial dynamics in the colonial world. This article ultimately argues that only a broad and complex understanding of modernity's racial unconscious can address both the hypervisibility...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 85–88.
Published: 01 November 2013
... is made to Edouard Glissant's Caribbean Discourse , Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks , and Lawrence Venuti's Rethinking Translation and The Translator's Invisibility . 6 See Lawrence Venuti, The Translator's Invisibility: A History of Translation (London: Routledge, 2008). 5...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 243–254.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Marlon James Instead of dismissing skin bleaching, this photographic project's intention is to understand both the practice and the means by which a person would attempt to ascertain some kind of beauty where many saw none. Some proclaimed it was merely a fad; others felt it elevated...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 107–117.
Published: 01 July 2009
... given that the installation that he had mounted
showed the dehumanization of blacks by whites during slavery.
I was intrigued that this definitely brown-skinned man—with a big bushy afro and African
features, someone who in all likelihood would have, in his journey...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 57–69.
Published: 01 March 2017
... of the female body, and the postcolonial experience. In many of her pencil and gouache works, Báez explores the ways skin tone and hair texture—that is, outward evidence of the racialized body—are bound by social expectations and how the interpretation of the female body is generated through these telling...
FIGURES
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 70–88.
Published: 01 March 2017
...). 25 McGilchrist, e-mail to author, 15 December 2012. 24 Susan Sontag, On Photography (New York: Delta, 1980), 4. 23 Fanon, ibid. 22 W. E. B. DuBois, “The Souls of Black Folks,” in Three Negro Classics (New York: Avon, 1965), 215; Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks , trans...
FIGURES
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 152–163.
Published: 01 July 2019
..., The Sovereignty of Quiet: Beyond Resistance in Black Culture (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2012), 45. 30 Maillo-Pozo, “Resisting Colonial Ghosts,” 135. 29 Ibid., 140. 28 Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks , 88. 27 Stuart Hall, “The After-life of Frantz Fanon: Why Fanon...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 93–110.
Published: 01 September 2003
... of myself.
—Michelle Cliff , Th e Land of Look Behind
oing Home to Teach, Anthony Winkler’s autobiographical account of a year spent
in Jamaica, expresses the dilemma of a white Jamaican marginalized by the black
G majority because of skin color. Winkler’s account...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 117–123.
Published: 01 July 2011
... neighbors, picknees
welded to their hips and trained from the breast to ’fraid mih.
Dem point dey finger and laugh behind mih back, shoo shoo
as if any of them know what is like to live in dis prison-skin;
Like any ah...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 59–76.
Published: 01 March 2002
... the heart, not the skin. Established by a powerful hand, (for the bountiful Creator
1. Derek Walcott, “Codicil” in e Castaway and Other Poems (London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1965), 61.
Small Axe 11, March 2002: pp. 59–76
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gave the same soul to all living beings...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 211–222.
Published: 01 July 2013
... wears two skins: one you can see, about to be shed, one you cannot see, the skin under the skin, waiting. It's the same for the island woman. Once a moon or when love is over or just beginning, she'll find herself wearing her own two skins, outside, the life she lived last Tuesday...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 77–96.
Published: 01 March 2019
..., when I left, and September 1979, when I returned permanently, I came home nearly every Christmas and nearly every summer. My parents were upper-middle-class professionals: my dark-skinned father was one of the senior partners of what was then the largest architectural firm in the Caribbean. He had...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 52–72.
Published: 01 October 2007
... for Form” in Homi Bhabha (ed)Nation and Narration (London and
New York: Routledge, 1990), 44.
54 | SX24 • Gendered Legacies of Romantic Nationalism in the Works of Michelle Cliff
herself as a light-skinned Jamaican living in the United States) I want to touch briefly on some
reasons...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 39–70.
Published: 01 September 2003
... of the narrative strands of George Lam-
ming’s fi rst novel, published in 1953, In the Castle of My Skin. But it is not only about
the events of 1937. It was also made possible by them. Th e story itself is about its own
historical conditions of existence.
Barbados was England’s oldest colony...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 1–15.
Published: 01 March 2010
... Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks, a critique of which provides unique
insight into the philosophical problem of absence that confronts black women. Frantz Fanon
challenges a form of foreclosure: it is the foreclosure of the “black man” where the category
black serves to designate him as not Man.15...
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