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Freedom Now Suite: Black Feminist Turns of Voice
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 151–159.
Published: 01 November 2018
... a certain theoretical cul de sac in contemporary black studies theorizations that requires further thought if we are to diligently contemplate the stakes of freedom for black people globally. Copyright © 2018 Small Axe, Inc. 2018 voice unfreedom fugitivity maroonage feminism Recently...
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Reconstructing Manhood; or, The Drag of Black Masculinity
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 75–89.
Published: 01 March 2009
... Walcott
What might human dignity and freedom look like for black people, especially poor black
people in the post–civil rights/post-independence neoliberal moment of our times? How
might we think about the states of freedom and unfreedom that currently organize...
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“Ancient Modes of Proof” and “Current Jural Doings”: Notes on the Work of Colin Dayan
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 138–151.
Published: 01 November 2014
...) Edited, sourced, and refiled by AG and MG Date: 1997– Errors uncorrected Colin (Joan) Dayan came to the attention of the Hawthorne Archive (HA) because she kept asking dangerous questions about how we “speak about the multiple forms of unfreedom, the archaic vessels for new terrors that we...
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Dread Dialectics
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 228–238.
Published: 01 November 2020
... and forced-labor power and in the experience of unfreedom in the postemancipation period. 20 In “Black Metamorphosis” Wynter cites Marx’s remarks on the colonies’ plantations “as commercial centres of production . . . for the world market,” part of a system in which the slaves themselves were bought...
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The Politics of Disjuncture, or Freedom from a Caribbean Point of View
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 184–192.
Published: 01 July 2017
... and sovereignty have led only to their opposites—unfreedom and non-sovereignty. Much, of course, depends on what we mean by freedom. If freedom is defined in terms of national independence or the revolutionary transformation of society, then we seem to be caught up in the tragic aftermath of the failure...
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A Queer Pier: Roundtable on the Idea of a Black Radical Tradition
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 84–95.
Published: 01 March 2013
... to establish a connection between intimacy and freedom; you have to work to do that because there already has been some prior relationship between intimacy and unfreedom. Robert Hill : I've a couple of thoughts to share on the semantics of “black radical tradition.” The word radical , I hear...
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Listening to the Sound of Culture
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 172–180.
Published: 01 March 2018
... a complex and often terrifying modernity “structured by the dual anxieties of slavery and industrialization [and] shaped by systems of human unfreedom” (80). While the technological underpinnings and obsessions of dub, hip-hop, and techno have inspired voluminous commentary, the discussion here also attends...
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Slavery, Freedom, and the Work of Speculation
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 220–228.
Published: 01 March 2019
...—that arguably represent in that moment the opposite ends of the continuum between Caribbean slavery and freedom in the nineteenth century. But even that particular opposition is a broadly Atlantic story linked to the making of both freedom and unfreedom in the Age of Revolution. Similarly, the questions...
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Indigenous Sexualities: Rosamond S. King's Island Bodies and the Radical Politics of Scholarship
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 241–249.
Published: 01 March 2017
...’ that depends upon a particular unfreedom” (66). These paradoxes are part of the Caribglobal condition King highlights, and she urges us to acknowledge the fact that sexuality is often used by those who occupy privileged positions within Caribbean nations as an obfuscation of other urgent issues of social...
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“And to Survive”
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 171–180.
Published: 01 November 2018
.... That is, I have been concerned with what Rinaldo Walcott calls in his response “the multiple forms of different unfreedoms in the face of an elusive freedom” and “a freedom to come.” 4 This is true of my first book, Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-slavery Subjects , in which I read a number of texts...
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Capitalism and Slave Ownership: A Response
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 168–177.
Published: 01 March 2012
... of redemptive value in
recovering even such partial and distorted histories, then the material exists to begin sys-
tematically to block out the skeletal details of the lives of the eight hundred thousand people
living in a state of unfreedom at the end of slavery...
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Categories, Citizenship, Erotic Agency, and the Problem of Freedom
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 147–158.
Published: 01 March 2015
... and, given the history of Jamaica and Haiti, (2) to link contemporary modes of urban cultural practices, public bodily performances, to those “ancestral histories” of resistance within the matrices of antislavery, anticolonial, and anti-postcolonial states of unfreedom. Erotic agency, then, comes across...
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Bad Faith and the Contours of Black Consciousness
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 145–156.
Published: 01 March 2024
... his people by killing Whites, as opposed to the actions of the rational and venerable T’Challa (181). Gordon unravels in the tension a false binary between freedom and unfreedom, a way of configuring political struggle that assumes “one must conquer or be conquered” (188). Lastly, Gordon frames Black...
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Violence, Livity, Freedom
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 181–192.
Published: 01 March 2014
... of tourism, universal confraternity, and consumption are Jamaica's gated communities, class divisions, spaces occupied and avoided based on color distinctions, layers of inclusion and exclusion, death, and structures of unfreedom couched in justificatory languages of cultural pathologies. Frantz Fanon warns...
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Rebellion/Invention/Groove
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 79–91.
Published: 01 March 2016
... and the brutally oppressive technologies of slavery and colonialism that, all together, produce modern relational histories and narratives and dynamic acts of rebellion—rebellion is indigenization—against the codes of unfreedom that violently marginalize global damnés . See her discussion of the “underlife...
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“He Was a Lion, and He Would Destroy Much”: A Speculative School of Revolutionary Politics
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 195–207.
Published: 01 March 2019
... Saint-Domingue, directly led to growing unfreedom a few nautical miles away. What might appear incongruous makes sense—liberty begat increased enslavement, and the hole in the global sugar and coffee markets occasioned by one revolution was quickly filled by the rapid buildup and productivity...
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Silence and Specters: The British Empire and the 1904 Haitian Commemorations of Independence
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 1–16.
Published: 01 March 2019
... diplomatic affrays. 11 I conceive of sovereignty in the case of Haiti as the perceived right to self-govern. See Karen Salt, “Ecological Chains of Unfreedom: Contours of Black Sovereignty in the Atlantic World,” Journal of American Studies 49, no. 2 (2015): 267–86; and The Unfinished Revolution...
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The Resistance of the Lost Body
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 113–128.
Published: 01 March 2016
... Ramchand, quoted in ibid., 31; ibid., 12. The second epigraph to this essay also quotes this passage. 22 Fred Moten encourages us to consider life's flight as a kind of freedom in unfreedom: “Perhaps constant escape is what we mean when we say freedom; perhaps constant escape is that which...
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Forging Relational Difference: Racial Gendered Violence and Dispossession in Guyana
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 18–33.
Published: 01 November 2019
... to the contractual makings of the indentured subject and the (mis)recognition of the indigenous subject. Further, it has implications for understanding the unfreedom of black women in the contemporary. Samantha Benjamin’s brutalization and murder, rather than merely another statistical account of generic violence...
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Partus sequitur ventrem : Law, Race, and Reproduction in Colonial Slavery
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 1–17.
Published: 01 March 2018
... that in the context of the mid-seventeenth-century Atlantic world, English, African, and Native American women and men encountered one another with a well-developed fear of bondage already firmly in place. Bondage or unfreedom was common throughout their experiences and thus required little in the way of conceptual...
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