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Claiming an Identity We Thought They Despised: Contemporary White West Indian Writers and Their Negotiation of Race
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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...
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Art as a Poetics of Recognition: Self and White Alterity in Olivia McGilchrist's Contemporary Art
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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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Deconstructing Jamaican Whiteness: A Diasporic Voice
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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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The Black/White Color Spectrum
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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...
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Provision Grounds Against the Plantation: Robert Wedderburn’s Axe Laid to the Root
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 15–27.
Published: 01 March 2021
... the other modes of plotting to articulate geographic identities laden with epistemological possibilities and horizons for the future outside the parameters of white dominance and control” (243). See also Janae Davis et al., “Anthropocene, Capitalocene, . . . Plantationocene? A Manifesto for Ecological...
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All Creoles Now? Béké Identity and Éloge de la créolité
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 220–232.
Published: 01 March 2017
... whiteness, repelling—and, of course, repressing the desire for a (necessary)—otherness. The Antilles have been characterized, over the last quarter century, by postmodern discourses and movements that valorize cross-cultural, relational, and mobile models of identity, whether we think of créolité...
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What Is This Black in Black Diaspora?
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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...
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Revolutionary Genealogies: Suzanne Césaire's and Christiane Taubira's Writings of Dissent
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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...
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White but Not Quite: Tones and Overtones of Whiteness in Brazil
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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...
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“The Unhomely Moment”: Frieda Cassin's Nineteenth-Century Antiguan Novel and the Construction of the White Creole
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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...
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Race, Creole, and National Identities in Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea and Phillips's Cambridge
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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...
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Accessories/Accessaries; or, What's in Your Closet?
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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...
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Deceptive Benevolence: Witnessing Whiteness in Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s Dance on the Volcano
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 1–14.
Published: 01 November 2023
... anxiety, this moment involved increasingly “racially discriminatory legislation and unprecedented brutality towards slaves.” 11 Indeed, in an attempt to consolidate local colonial power, John Garrigus argues, Creoles crafted a new colonial identity based on “white purity,” specifically by restricting...
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Cajou ’s “Color Complex”: Narrative Technique, Reader Response, and the Reception of Postcolonial Texts
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (1 (34)): 46–57.
Published: 01 March 2011
... on an identity search, comes to an uncomfortable conclusion or explores unpopular aspects of identity concerning race and gender. When Mayotte Capécia s novels were published in the 1950s, their female protagonists preference for white men and French identity elicited strong condemnations from Negritude...
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Mode of Black Life: Fear of a b/Black Consciousness
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 157–163.
Published: 01 March 2024
... referent, Black folk would proffer an informational body; that is, they would often preface their contributions to online discourse with “I’m Black and . . .” This argumentation strategy worked to decenter the normative White, often male, technical identity discourses in virtual spaces. 4 In today’s...
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Reconstructing Dominican Latinidad : Intersections between Gender, Race, and Hip-Hop
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 85–98.
Published: 01 July 2018
..., the author inserts her travel narrative—one by a woman of color of Dominican descent—into a genre dominated by white women. She likewise showcases the multifaceted process of identity formation through the conflation of science, mysticism, and the cultural richness of her hyphenated upbringing on her path...
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Whiteness as War by Other Means: Racial Complexity in an Age of Failed States
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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...
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Transnational Renderings of Negro / a / x /*: Re-centering Blackness in AfroLatinidad
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 93–99.
Published: 01 July 2022
... to name Whiteness and usurping Blackness as part of their own 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...
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Haitian and Dominican E/migration and the (Re)construction of National Identity in the Poetry of the Third Generation
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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...
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Dominican Race and Gender before Trujillo and beyond Caribbean Studies
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 189–198.
Published: 01 November 2016
... and other political and literary authorities thought it imperative to paint the nation as white vis-à-vis neighboring Haiti. As Silvio Torres-Saillant argues, Dominican identity consists not only of how Dominicans see themselves but also of how they are seen by the powerful nations with which the Dominican...
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