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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 138–151.
Published: 01 November 2017
... differences suburbanization Jamaica Too often “the intensity of where we are, passes by anonymously and unremarked,” as Clifford Geertz once observed. “It goes without saying.” 1 Yet it bears reminding that “places are metonymically and metaphorically tied to identities”; and “as people fashion...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 197–200.
Published: 01 July 2015
... and the Dominican Republic. He currently teaches Spanish and history at a suburban Boston private school. The recipient of a Breadloaf Writers Conference work-study scholarship, his poetry and prose appear or are forthcoming in Gulf Coast , The Baffler , Bodega Magazine , Guernica , Lunaluna , the Rumpus...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 169–177.
Published: 01 March 2015
... homings and regroundings are always entangled in bitter uprootings, violence, and occupations. 20 In 1980 I celebrated my Bat Mitzvah. After chanting from the Torah, in my first public speech ever I faced an all-white suburban Reform Jewish congregation and called for the State of Israel to welcome...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 170–177.
Published: 01 July 2012
..., keeping the fruit circulating and making up deficiencies where he seeing them, like keeping a balance in nature or like supply-side economics, with him as middle man. Everyone in our suburban area of houses scrambling along the face of the steep hill slope have a favourite Ghost story. When we meet up...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 175–185.
Published: 01 November 2015
... “sundown” town in the east central portion of the state of Missouri. Once all white, Ferguson is quite likely among the nation's most vivid instances of “white flight,” precipitated by shifting demographic housing patterns—black people move in, white people move out. In my estimation, US suburban expansion...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 133–144.
Published: 01 February 2008
..., moneyed family networks, and
a suburban situated knowledge. In this Eden, corporate buyers and corporate artists live hap-
pily together under the sign of the picturesque. Note that these are images of the Caribbean
seldom for foreign consumption. The producers of paintings...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 53–70.
Published: 01 March 2012
... at this
time—the late 1970s and early 1980s—the images generated a sense of nostalgia for a way
of life that was being subsumed by the larger scale projects of modernization in the form of
commercial development, highways, suburbanization, and the gradual expansion of Port of
Spain and its environs...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 85–97.
Published: 01 November 2017
... the defense of property values and individualized identities, turning the suburban vote towards conservative republicanism.” 8 In the case of Tivoli Gardens, the demolition of Back-O-Wall and the award of homes to faithful party supporters secured their loyalty and by extension the loyalty...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 59–73.
Published: 01 February 2006
... ideology and lifestyle. Th is is one of those, commonly
used with the same meaning by Rastas and non-Rastas alike. Furé Davis noticed the
word in the suburban neighborhood of Santiago de Cuba Callejón de los Perros and in
Cienfuegos. However, this usage does not transgress the limits...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 February 2008
... into
his home, provide personal witness to the social pathologies that characterize the dystopic city,
pathologies that invade even the gated suburban uptown communities. “Straight Talk” and
“Short History of Dis” replay media accounts of state violence against the citizens of Rema...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 106–121.
Published: 01 March 2024
... by depriving them of the funding and human talent that could otherwise improve them. In the same vein, the withdrawal of elite patronage from downtown markets and shops, recreational venues, and even mortuaries, as well as their abandonment of downtown congregations in favor of the more exclusive suburban...
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The Infrastructures of Liberation at the End of the World: A Reflection on Disaster in the Caribbean
Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 96–109.
Published: 01 July 2020
... During this period the government introduced segregated suburbanized communities like La Horquetta, with multistory and single-family homes constructed away from established social services. 32 Even in the contemporary moment of economic downturn, the state continues to construct residential...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 1–15.
Published: 01 November 2013
... my thinking will foster other considerations of black and racial geographies—rural, suburban, gated, beyond the Americas, too—that might benefit from the sort of imagining of plantation futures I put forth. Working with the writings of Sylvia Wynter and Dionne Brand, and soldering the theoretical...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 20–38.
Published: 01 March 2024
... from anthropogenic habitat loss and pollution. Several months after the storm, for example, wildlife experts had yet to see or hear the endangered Puerto Rican parrot, whose population was already restricted by suburban sprawl near El Yunque forest. 27 Similarly, before Maria, Guánica Bay...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 28–46.
Published: 01 March 2021
... in the context of black civilian internment—for both the artist-prisoner and the researcher. © Small Axe, Inc. 2021 Suriname World War II black prisoners internment art photography Buried in the storage facility of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in suburban Washington, DC...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 46–62.
Published: 01 June 2007
... trade.”43 The
audience’s fear is heightened because Screwface and his dreadlocks posse violate a utopian,
small town, slice of Americana. Proverbial suburban white houses, picket fences, and pristinely
manicured lawns mark this ideal territory; the Dreads corrupt presumably innocent high
school...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 72–94.
Published: 01 March 2003
... supporters there.
For these daring politicians, urban dance halls, makeshift recording studios, petty
commodity marketplaces, and the horseracing track were as legitimate venues for
recruiting supporters as were union halls and suburban enclaves. Productively and selec-
tively...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 23–42.
Published: 01 July 2012
... biological family and their Frenchified, colonially imbricated way of life that gives lip service to an Afrocentric worldview). More than this, the memory reveals the ways she sees Africa as an extension of family and family land. When she first sees Sory's suburban villa, Heremakhonon (roughly translated...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 56–76.
Published: 01 July 2015
...-longings of a frustrated adolescent and the crude, snob-cravings of a frustrated suburban adult” (430). 41 Bond's second shot proved controversial; see Chapman, Licence to Thrill , 65–66. 42 Ian Fleming, Dr. No (London: Jonathan Cape, 1958), 201. 64 “Synopsis of DR. NO,” 8 January...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 96–242.
Published: 01 March 2013
... about ethnicity. He was appointed, you remember, in the throes of the ethnic revival. But he was plucked right out of the Congress, a man whose focus was entirely on upper-middle-class, suburban Grand Rapids. He really didn't know very much about what was going on in the rest of the country. So...
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