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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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Peasant Sensibility and the Structures of Feeling of “My People” in George Lamming’s In the Castle of My Skin
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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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Dread Bodies: Doubles, Echoes, and the Skins of Sound
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 191–201.
Published: 01 July 2014
... University Press, 2000). 47 Vybz Kartel, “Pretty Like a Colouring Book?,” Jamaica Journal 33, no. 3 (2011): 24–29. 48 Curtis Campbell, “Vybz Kartel Urges Youngsters to Avoid Bleaching Their Skin: Incarcerated Dancehall Star Promotes Positivity on New Track,” Jamaica Star , 29 August 2013...
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White but Not Quite: Tones and Overtones of Whiteness in Brazil
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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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The Fact of Blackness? The Bleached Body in Contemporary Jamaica
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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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Translating the Caribbean
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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 . © 2013 by Small Axe, Inc. 2013 Several decades ago, Edouard Glissant wrote in Le discours antillais of the “undeniable...
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What Is This Black in Black Diaspora?
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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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Blackout: Kingston 12, Jamaica
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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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Deconstructing Jamaican Whiteness: A Diasporic Voice
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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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Bodies of Color: Images of Women in the Works of Firelei Báez and Rachelle Mozman
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 57–69.
Published: 01 March 2017
... are addressed throughout the film. As in Sirk's original film, a biracial child asks about the skin color of Jesus Christ; later, now a teenager, the child is assumed to be socializing exclusively with the local “colored” youth. These moments, as captured through Mozman's lens, are framed by shots of abundance...
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Art as a Poetics of Recognition: Self and White Alterity in Olivia McGilchrist's Contemporary Art
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 70–88.
Published: 01 March 2017
... skin color. In an interview for Uprising Art , she notes, “Whitey is what they call me, Olivia, on the streets of Kingston.” 8 Yet, the color of one's skin is a knotty matter. Reference to the distinction McGilchrist makes between her parents' identities (Jamaican-white and Euro-white) gives us...
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Mushrooms and Mischief: On Questions of Blackness
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 152–163.
Published: 01 July 2019
... black, and other nonwhite, women who have children who look “whiter” than they do. This tale also contains the reversal of the expected narrative, for my darker-skinned family members had been doctors, lawyers, voracious readers, and social strivers for at least a century, first in the southern border...
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Claiming an Identity We Thought They Despised: Contemporary White West Indian Writers and Their Negotiation of Race
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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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George Lamming's Literary Nationalism: Language between The Tempest and the Tonelle
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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 Graces
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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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Coming Back to Life
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 211–222.
Published: 01 July 2013
... reaching hand. Moon, I'm gone, I cried, and fell upon the earth. Yes, she said, but death is mother of rebirth. There is a moment in every snake's life when she 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...
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Gendered Legacies of Romantic Nationalism in the Works of Michelle Cliff
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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.
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herself as a light-skinned Jamaican living in the United States) I want to touch briefly on some
reasons...
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“Black Man Time Now”: Race, Class, and Culture in 1970s-based Jamaican Fiction
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 77–96.
Published: 01 March 2019
..., unculturedness, and general ill-mannerliness. This association had evolved intact into our cultural soul from the earliest slavery days when a black skin signified captivity and barbarism. Indiscipline is the one word that most Jamaicans, on a free association test, would equate with blackness. (89...
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C. L. R. James and George Lamming: The Measure of Historical Time
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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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Whose Time Is It? Gender and Humanism in Contemporary Caribbean Feminist Advocacy
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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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