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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 63–84.
Published: 01 November 2017
... in what Nettleford could not have interpreted at the time. Using surveillance reports from the “migrated archives” in the UK, the author shows that the intensifying concern with anticommunism that grew throughout the 1950s undergirded a transition in the approach toward Rastafari on the part...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 71–83.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Faith Smith This essay argues that the death of a fictional photographer in the 1907 novel Rupert Gray: A Tale in Black and White allays anxieties posed by photographic surveillance and “feminization.” Even if the novel's faith in the British Empire disqualifies it from being radical, its portrayal...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 47–55.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of surveillance assemblages. But even more than a feeling, Maroon insecurity might be said to describe an experience of precarity. This attention to these Maroon in/securities revises the grand narratives of marronage in heroic terms that have often been dominant in the cultural and popular imagination across...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 151–159.
Published: 01 November 2018
... (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017). 2 Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016), 1, 83 (ellipsis in original). 3 See Simone Browne, Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 76–82.
Published: 01 March 2024
... women), we learn that relationships and repeated journeying are the infrastructures that make necessary and routine improvisation possible, shrouded by habits that retain opacity to state surveillance. Through historical studies such as those by Julius Scott and Marcus Rediker, Postnationalism...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 193–202.
Published: 01 March 2009
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comprehensive account of the varied mechanisms employed by US officialdom to demonize
black radicals and the systematic policing of black dissenters, including immigrants and visi-
tors. Jones, with others, paid the most extreme price, but the net of surveillance cast by the
virulent...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 152–163.
Published: 01 July 2019
... for denigrating the three respectable, white or whitened, Founding Fathers: “At the moment that ‘the archive’ includes voices such as El Alfa’s—a nonwhite, working-class, and transmigrant Dominican man with a tenuous hold on a steady income—it immediately becomes the site of surveillance and prompt discipline...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 18–38.
Published: 01 March 2018
... natural history surveillance rape archives Joscelyn Gardner Jamaica When twenty-nine-year-old white Englishman Thomas Thistlewood arrived in British colonial Jamaica in 1750, he worked briefly as a surveyor’s assistant. Subsequently, he assumed his first position overseeing enslaved persons...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 144–160.
Published: 01 July 2018
... in which they were created, the potential intention and social positionality of the photographer and photographed subject(s), and, crucially, convention. I propose that these photographers translated nonwhite subjects’ distaste for being surveilled and recorded without their permission into a more...
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The Operations of the Closet and the Discourse of Unspeakable Contents in Black Fauns and My Brother
Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 1–18.
Published: 01 June 2006
... surveillance
strategy to support the intellectual and institutional censorship of nonheterosexual reali-
ties from the taxonomies of Caribbean postcolonial cultural resistance, and by extension,
from the imagined sovereign Caribbean nation. Ian Smith confronts this long tradition...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 50–74.
Published: 01 March 2009
.... The silver harbingers of calamity had
appeared as if from nowhere, evading the vigilance of the world’s most potent surveillance and
intelligence system. The stunned impotence of the administration was all the more humiliat-
ing in that the military was in the middle of a NORAD exercise...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 1–13.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of military surveillance, transactional missteps, or fatal encounters that warranted procedural documentation by the foreign occupiers. In many cases, women appear in the archive in passing—as scenery clarifying the landscape, witnesses to crimes, or, like Estrea, “in the moment of their disappearance...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 93–99.
Published: 01 July 2022
... that transnational Caribbean Blackness exists and raises questions of migration, surveillance, policing, bodies, class, gender, sexuality, and more. 15 It reminds us that AfroLatinidad is grounded in décalage . Brent Hayes Edwards provides an Afro-diasporic meaning of décalage in his essay “The Uses...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 85–97.
Published: 01 November 2017
... to emphasize the processes of urbanization and their effects on impoverished communities and beyond, rather than representing the identarian struggles of its victims and their negotiation of liminality within the frames of cultural nationalism. If Seaga cites the desire for easy surveillance as a value...
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Small Axe (2001) 5 (2): 183–185.
Published: 01 September 2001
... into violence with less immediate ends,
and police surveillance soon became a standard feature of ghetto life.
“< e political violence in the ghettos, the gang activities in the dances, and the
police harassment of dancehall congregants led to a shift in the dancehall scene...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 75–89.
Published: 01 March 2009
... contemporary “race men” is that they seem to
lack or they have deliberately ignored (and I believe it is the latter) the ways in which contem-
porary neoliberalism’s managerial and surveillance practices have structured new regimes
20 Deborah McDowell, “Pecs and Reps,” in Harry Stecoppoulos...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 123–131.
Published: 01 July 2019
... into a surveillance maneuver. What if misrecognition—or “ghosting,” to use the terminology Ramírez employs in dialogue with Anne McClintock—facilitates resistance? In an interdisciplinary archival reconstruction of a transmedial and transhistorical genealogy of cultural productions, Ramírez illuminates how...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 263–280.
Published: 01 March 2013
... of psychic immunization against such mass psychoses.” 16 The camera, which for blacks and other subalterns had often been a technology of violence wielded against them—in the names of Jim Crow, colonialism, racial science, pornography, state surveillance, and progress —also became a tool for reimagining...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 63–80.
Published: 01 November 2024
... you maybe don’t broadcast, especially since some go through Mexico.” The silence surrounding the discussion of traveling through Mexico suggests ongoing surveillance of Black individuals in the region, underscoring the legality and fugitivity of Black Belizeans’ journey to the United States. Moreover...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 1–16.
Published: 01 July 2024
... her from surveillance and harassment by the colonial authorities in Congo. 8 Jean Comhaire recounts that “even if some authorities were wary,” his wife’s study of schoolchildren “interested” and even “amused” missionaries and colonial administrators in the Belgian Congo. 9 This stands in stark...
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