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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 138–151.
Published: 01 November 2017
... it as a critical marker of the creation of a parallel social infrastructure and all-encompassing set of social arrangements to serve the city's elites. The author's central concern is with how social differences that were once openly coded through race and color now were articulated in spatial terms. The essay...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 106–121.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Charles V. Carnegie This essay argues that a noncontingent, nonexclusionary notion of humanity’s oneness— constituted through difference rather than denying it—provides a principled foundation for social renewal and repair at all social scales. This foundation of human oneness is essential...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 35–50.
Published: 01 March 2019
... to currency/gold and a “monopoly over value” in the region. The Dominican Republic was to be “a nation without currency . . . or private property,” as discourses pairing sugar/tobacco and slaves/ranching became a site of difference between commodity and gift-exchange forms of social-economic life, which...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 1–12.
Published: 01 November 2018
... diasporic networks: that of violence in all of its different social registers, from means of social control to response to the traumas of past violence. This essay argues that while James’s text is concerned with unveiling the roots of Jamaica’s violence in late–Cold War US imperialism and the larger...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 11–21.
Published: 01 March 2020
... Republic and Jamaica: the anthology Palabras de una isla / Paroles d’une île , Juan Bosch’s story “Luis Pie,” and the Groundwork Theater Company’s Fallen Angel and the Devil Concubine . The author argues that these texts emphasize different critical priorities from the standard concerns of theorists...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 112–134.
Published: 01 March 2009
... with its former ruler (and the new hegemony of the United States in the
region) and at the same time an impulse to create new national subjects on a different set of
63 Carl Stone, Class, Race and Political Behaviour in Urban Jamaica (Kingston: Institute for Social and Economic Research...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 7–21.
Published: 01 March 2014
... to labor for large-scale foreign-owned employers tended to generate social boundaries and ideologies of racial difference. Such cases have set the paradigm for scholars' understanding of Caribbean migration. Meanwhile, diffuse migrations toward dispersed opportunity—an equally or more common pattern...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 210–219.
Published: 01 November 2021
...) of the book: gender. 6 The book focuses largely on urban men, and in particular men of a certain age and from a certain social and political generation. I tried to show that the account I offer is partial and that it is common to hear women talk about crisis in different ways (8), but I should have made...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 152–163.
Published: 01 July 2019
..., what are whiteness and indigeneity? Where do these categories reside when, at birth, a child has begun to be calibrated to exact proportions in relation to the skin color and hair texture of relatives? Am I to ignore the fact that the social differences between my two differently shaded sides muddied...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 47–61.
Published: 01 March 2016
..., if initially only partially and to different degrees, into a more interactive world system. The Europeans' invasion into what to them were “new worlds” produced profound changes within their own self-conceptions and social orders as well as within those of the societies with which they came into contact...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 17–33.
Published: 01 July 2019
... of gendered differences in patterns of socialization and the fact that gay men and gay women were differently positioned in Jamaican imaginaries during this period, such that they experienced different concerns in their relationship to the broader Jamaican public. Thus while women participated in GFM...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 160–165.
Published: 01 November 2021
... lead to the erasure of key social differences in the region, including gender and race. On the other hand, Betances articulates forcefully the importance of imagining anti-imperialism as a project that goes beyond nationhood, paving the way for a politics of decolonization based on solidarity and co...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 22–43.
Published: 01 July 2017
... some scholars to characterize sympathy as less a unifying force than a “paradoxical mode of power,” whereby the sympathetic gesture, premised as it is on differences of power, reinforces the very social divides that it seeks to overcome. 4 This raises the question, If his murals constitute...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 81–93.
Published: 01 July 2017
... as spatial, social, and cultural markers of difference from the African Caribbean population. Circumscribed categories of sameness or difference were encouraged by a colonial system that in its very design pitted groups against each other. 6 For this reason, the 2009 art exhibition South-South...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 52–63.
Published: 01 November 2014
...,” special issue, Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines 37, no. 148 (1997): 944. Unless otherwise indicated, all English translations throughout are mine. 4 “Indeed, we know that because of Haitian diglossia, the cultural difference between French and Creole is also a social difference of class. Only those...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 198–212.
Published: 01 July 2012
... Clarke's 1967 film Portrait of Jason . 30 By contrast, various sectors of art history have increasingly taken a monographic approach in order to get at precisely “the slow time” of singular forms' unfurling onto multiple frameworks of social difference. 31 Through such means, the discipline—always...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 213–227.
Published: 01 July 2012
... inscription of social differences in art and culture, it also underscores the potential for unpredictable transformations in any worldly situation of heteroglossia or many-voicedness in which social actors may subvert the overall discourse through unexpected acts of appropriation. Considering art history...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 68–80.
Published: 01 July 2017
... with the enamel cup of tea and the doubles echoes, for me, the modest breakfast that the indentured workers ate at mid-morning, after they had been working from the break of dawn. For some these might signify working class, poverty, and social difference. For many today—for visitors to Trinidad...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 17–34.
Published: 01 March 2019
... by writer and reader, predominant in the phenomenology of disjunctive poetry, but more broadly (I will argue) in aesthetic judgment. The cut analogizes social difference, and the forms of collectivity that difference generates, to the difference necessary for aesthetic judgment, and the forms...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 209–218.
Published: 01 November 2017
.... 21 In fact, census data indicates that a higher percentage of Puerto Ricans in the island identify as white compared to those who live in the United States. Carlos Vargas-Ramos, “Some Social Differences on the Basis of Race among Puerto Ricans,” December 2016, Centro RB2016-10...
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