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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 220–228.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of informed speculation in scholarly work on slavery and black revolution. The long gestation of Freedom’s Mirror meant many things beyond a slow promotion to full. The databases and word processing programs with which I began the project disappeared before its end. Much more important, some...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 195–207.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Sara E. Johnson This essay addresses the role of informed speculation as a methodology for engaging the vital intellectual tradition of probing black interiority. It takes interiority to cover a spectrum of thought—from calculated analysis, intention, and motivation, to the more affective realm...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 219–231.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of her current work in Caribbean political economy, particularly concerning figures of speculation that perpetuate the logic of the trade-plantation complex in contemporary financialized capitalism. The essay moves from the forms of economic violence generated by the link between debt and austerity...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 76–84.
Published: 01 July 2016
... of multimedia outputs addressing the interdisciplinary fields of race and postcolonial study. The challenge of emerging Web projects and the proliferation of online information potentially repositions darkmatter as the privileged site for the publication of scholarly research. The essay speculates...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 123–135.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Kelly Baker Josephs “See you there. In the free.” This is the closing statement in Erna Brodber's fourth novel, The Rainmaker's Mistake (2007). In the novel, Brodber creatively imagines a past for the New World present, taking advantage of the space literary speculation and science fiction offer...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 67–77.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha This essay seeks to speculate on the reception of de Anton de Kom’s Wij slaven van Suriname (1934) within a very different context of political debates on race; decolonization; the politics of solidarity; and internationalist and anticapitalist struggles—all themes...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 162–173.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel This response essay engages the three book discussion essays by Shanna Jean-Baptiste, Grace Sanders Johnson, and Tobias Warner on the author’s Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire (2020). Building on the speculative...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 179–189.
Published: 01 July 2024
... Rico as case study. This intervention, the author speculates, moves the book’s analysis into a more intramural critique where Zambrana centers an interrogation of the “vitality” of the “laboratory” that is the factory, or of the plantation economy as the materialized prefiguration for financialized...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 76–82.
Published: 01 March 2024
... insight when used as a lens for the familiar practices that the book invites its readers to reconsider, beyond the veil of categories: speculating, marronage, the sacred in Marcus Garvey’s transterritoriality. 3 Perhaps, as Carnegie observes, it is the categories that distract us from...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 46–71.
Published: 01 March 2003
... release of the DVD and the resurgence of critical
interest in its production prompt a closer examination of the history behind the classic,
especially as new resources are made available. During our interview, Henzell confi rmed
that no copies of the fi rst speculation or working...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 167–174.
Published: 01 March 2021
... to the challenges of bringing into coherence multiple roads, threads, geographies, and temporalities, the incoherence and uneasiness also stems from the limits of historical methods that impose analytical distance on our subjects and restrict speculation to that for which we have some archival evidence. Thinking...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 75–85.
Published: 01 July 2023
..., including the persecution of migrants who were not necessarily sympathetic to the protests as well as the differences in allegiances between estate-residing migrants and those who lived in or near Stony Gut (ibid., 68–69, 107–9). These kinds of deeply informed speculations were no doubt shaped...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 179–188.
Published: 01 July 2023
...). Gosine responds to this colonial provocation for ontological proof with multimethod disavowal and refusal, but also with a creative play that sits within a speculative practice that undergirds the text; combining memoir, his creative art practices, formal art analysis, and interviews with activists...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 244–253.
Published: 01 July 2018
... might I have been had my family never immigrated. We are perhaps conditioned to imagine multiple possible endings, to speculate about how things might have turned out differently if we had never left. As both reporter and child immigrant, the speculative approach, the questioning approach, seemed...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2023
... from the effects of this practice. While the absence of scholarly discussions on the use of hydropathy on coolie ships makes it hard to determine if this is indeed a reference to water cure, Mrs. Swinton’s comment includes contextual clues that enable us to speculate about the intended effects...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 119–130.
Published: 01 November 2019
.... The alchemy of creative resistance, the practice of unbecoming a colonial subject, begins where it began—in the elements, in the basic structures of a thing. It’s speculative, a little fantastical, and protoscientific. It requires intuition, inquiry, and a daring imagination—nothing less—for transmutation...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 111–119.
Published: 01 March 2020
... was published and archived. The latter two, at least for now, remain unarchivable and part of a speculative history of Afro-diasporic female brilliance and achievement. To understand why Schomburg may have been so inspired to collect, it might be useful to briefly examine what was at stake and the ideas...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 63–65.
Published: 01 June 2007
... calls from Toronto. . . . She has seen another of my graphic works
on my blog site. In this work, I am speculating about “fear” as a new political commodity.
People in Trinidad are supposed to be living in fear so we need a new government or new
security measures to save us. They also say we need...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2024
... In the absence of either artist’s direct acknowledgment, the suggestion of this queer interanimation requires critical speculation. But not one without corroboration. Both the sketch and Césaire’s revised Notebook have unequivocally queer elements, and it is distinctly possible that the former had something...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 105–115.
Published: 01 November 2021
... geographic spaces more popular with Black intellectuals at particular times. There is also a search function that scans the text of the data behind the visualizations. Both “trajectories” and “intersections” are necessarily speculative endeavors, given how little we know of the moves these figures make...
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