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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 93–110.
Published: 01 September 2003
...Kim Robinson-Walcott Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Claiming an Identity We Thought They
Despised: Contemporary White West Indian
Writers and Their Negotiation of Race
Kim Robinson-Walcott
It is not a question of relinquishing privilege. It is a question of grasping more...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 70–88.
Published: 01 March 2017
... in Europe, is interpellated into the position of white other, or “whitey,” as she is called on the streets. It argues that McGilchrist's art constitutes a poetics or a “how” of stepping into and negotiating white identity as a place of recognition. The essay explores McGilchrist's visual engagement...
FIGURES
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 107–117.
Published: 01 July 2009
... benefits both in black Jamaica and in white America, where he comes to fully appreciate just how much of a Jamaican he is, as well as to grasp the idiosyncrasies of Jamaican vs American constructions of whiteness vs blackness. This paper examines issues of racial and cultural identity raised, directly...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 141–150.
Published: 01 March 2017
... and Perpetuate , and her video installations Snow White Remixed and Purity, Sanctity, and Corporeality , she reflects on how race and gender are much more open in the lives of children; the questioning of the idea of “purity” and its relationship to whiteness; and visual culture and its effects on identity. She...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 15–27.
Published: 01 March 2021
... the abolitionist narrative that liberal, individualist freedoms should be spread from England to the West Indies. Wedderburn instead instructs his white, lower-class readers in London about already existing African Jamaican practices of insurrectionary land and food reclamation. First, he champions the provision...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 26–38.
Published: 01 July 2009
... of blackness becomes a closed sign anatomically imprinted on the skin. For many
black immigrants, the focus on phenotype and the “one drop” rule in the United States limits
African American identity constructions, constrained as they are by the inescapable context
of racism shaping black-white relations...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 91–101.
Published: 01 November 2015
... white, Catholic (or secular humanist) roots, the historical reality is that French identity has never been uniform or stable. Wilks argues that, although Césaire's affirmation of specificity may seem contrary to French republican ideals, her writings suggest a means of addressing the cultural-political...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 220–232.
Published: 01 March 2017
... by, racial identity. The “cost of living” strikes of 2009, reported in the United States and elsewhere as race riots, and the incendiary effects of the documentary of the same year, Les derniers maîtres de la Martinique , attest to the fact that whiteness commands much more than cultural or imaginary...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 39–56.
Published: 01 July 2009
... with progress and modernity.5
There are many fascinating outcomes of the importation of immigrants to Brazil, including how
they negotiated their identities and how their presence influenced the production of ideolo-
gies of whiteness by Brazilian intellectuals during that time. The most...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 95–106.
Published: 01 July 2009
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of their shifting locations in the hierarchies of gender and genre and race. Such narratives
repay examination because of the complex issues of belonging and identity which underpin
their representation of the migration experience. How, for example, did white women from the
Mother Country...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 87–104.
Published: 01 October 2006
... emancipation,
the depictions in the novels of these four failed performances of transcultural identity acknowl-
edge the historically insurmountable power of European whiteness as a hegemonic ideal of
racial purity. Wide Sargasso Sea and Cambridge depict instances in which specific...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 97–110.
Published: 01 July 2010
..., and lucky diaspora Africans could defy their fate and assert their freedom as Maroons
or mimic men.8
Masquerade, popular in Europe’s royal courts, supported the desire to redefine black and
white identities and construct new ones. In the colonial Caribbean it became an entertaining
means through...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 85–98.
Published: 01 July 2018
... by challenging the homogeneity of Black and Latinx identities as well as highlighting a transnational context that centers the African diaspora.” 3 As the story develops, we also discover that although his physical traits are closer to the black racial schema than the white, Eduardo insists on negating...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 72–89.
Published: 01 July 2009
... as well. But in what ways
(emphasis here on the plural) is the United States becoming other? How do state-authorized
self-recognition, black identity, and white sensitivities to racial inclusion, as well as other
ways the government is prone to recognize race, morph...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 93–99.
Published: 01 July 2022
... racially mixed identity politics. These socially discursive moves are what creates space for people like White history professor Jessica Krug to live a lie of multiple racialized identities, including her latest of being an AfroLatina Puerto Rican bomba dancer from the Bronx. How was it that Krug was able...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 86–103.
Published: 01 September 2005
... collective
consciousness is a source of strength to Haitian identity.
MEMORY AND WRITING
Among Caribbean countries, Haiti would be the vanguard in breaking with white Euro-
pean poetry content. Haitian authors at the start of the twentieth century began their
own cultural...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 52–72.
Published: 01 October 2007
... 2007 • Jocelyn Fenton Stitt | 57
the nation of Jamaica. In Abeng, Clare Savage identifies rural Jamaica with her mother, and
more importantly with an authentic Jamaican identity outside of her urban father’s “theories
and whiteness and . . . needs.”14 In the character of Clare’s mother, Kitty...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 189–198.
Published: 01 November 2016
... feminist theory's insistence on these kinds of intersectionalities. While her project is Dominicanist and Caribbeanist, its goals parallel those of Michelle M. Wright's Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora . 17 Wright moves from analyses of white European and US notions of black...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 85–93.
Published: 01 July 2015
... in college, by incorporating all aspects of her identity in her performance. Specifically, Davis's performance moniker reflects the ways race, gender, and sexuality limit her participation in two cultural and politics movements of the time: the white Los Angeles punk scene and the heteronormative Black Power...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 150–158.
Published: 01 September 2003
... narrative raises, with its side-
ways glance at the distinctions between her identity as the mother of biracial children
in England and her identity as a white woman in Jamaica. Th e multiple calibrations of
race, culture, history and gender that separate Catherine’s children from...
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