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Jews and Frenchies: The White Ethnic Minority in the US Virgin Islands

Lomarsh Roopnarine
Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 69–82.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9384226
Published: 01 July 2021
...Lomarsh Roopnarine Two white ethnic minorities, Jews and Frenchies, are rather unusual in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands. The Jews arrived during the period of slavery and participated in the economic colonialism of islands, retaining a prominent position in the Virgin Islands. The Frenchies in St...
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Deceptive Benevolence: Witnessing Whiteness in Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s Dance on the Volcano

Jocelyn Sutton Franklin
Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 1–14.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10899288
Published: 01 November 2023
...Jocelyn Sutton Franklin Focusing on the Haitian author Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s novel Dance on the Volcano (1957), this essay examines representations of an anxious White minority on the eve of the Haitian Revolution. It argues that Vieux-Chauvet deploys theatrical conventions to suggest that White...
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Albums of Inclusion: The Photographic Poetics of Caribbean Chinese Visual Kinship

Tao Leigh Goffe
Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 35–56.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-6985666
Published: 01 July 2018
... a discreet “buffer race” between the white minority and the black majority in the Caribbean after abolition. The experiment, which depended on the capacity for the Chinese to develop bourgeois domesticity in the Caribbean after abolition, failed because of sexual intimacies between people of African descent...
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All Creoles Now? Béké Identity and Éloge de la créolité

Maeve McCusker
Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 220–232.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3843974
Published: 01 March 2017
...Maeve McCusker Békés (white Creoles) are the descendants of the original plantation owners in the Antilles. They remain economically dominant in the islands, forming a privileged and self-segregating minority. They are, perhaps surprisingly, invoked by Raphaël Confiant as fundamental to both Éloge...
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Whiteness as War by Other Means: Racial Complexity in an Age of Failed States

Mike Hill
Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 72–89.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3697274
Published: 01 July 2009
... analysis of the US census is in order to approach this question and should help us situate the current fixation on a coming US white minority that is apposite to what counts and what (still) fails to count about race in the twenty-first century. There are a couple of items about the US...
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Bleeding, Wailing, and Hypnosis: The Words and Images of Caroline “booops” Sardine

Jane Bryce
Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 16–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2378901
Published: 01 November 2013
... “booops” Sardine, for whom social violence, in the form of racial, class, and gender stereotyping, as well as a personal experience of physical violence and its attendant trauma, provide the substance of her work. © 2013 by Small Axe, Inc. 2013 Though born into the tiny white minority of St...
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“Black Man Time Now”: Race, Class, and Culture in 1970s-based Jamaican Fiction

Kim Robinson-Walcott
Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 77–96.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7374466
Published: 01 March 2019
...; here he gave himself the freedom to reveal his peculiar vulnerability as a white Jamaican whose claim to national identity and belonging is strained because of his phenotypical identification with the oppressive power-wielding white minority: he is marginalized both by the poor black majority...
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Deconstructing Jamaican Whiteness: A Diasporic Voice

Kim Robinson-Walcott
Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 107–117.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3697310
Published: 01 July 2009
..., of entitlement counterpoised by unbelonging. Winkler refers to “the ambiguity of growing up white in a black country.” The stresses that would be experienced by the members of any minority group in any society are greatly magnified in the case of white Jamaicans because...
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Art as a Poetics of Recognition: Self and White Alterity in Olivia McGilchrist's Contemporary Art

Marsha Pearce
Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 70–88.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3844247
Published: 01 March 2017
.... The transparency of the material underscores parallel realities of the visibility and invisibility of white people in the Caribbean. White people may be visible in the region, but as a minority they are often rendered unseen in readings of the Caribbean as essentially a uniform space of black people...
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Ordinary Sovereignty

Yarimar Bonilla
Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 152–165.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2378973
Published: 01 November 2013
... Sovereignty . 53 See Trouillot, Haiti: State Against Nation . 54 Fred Constant, “French Republicanism under Challenge: White Minority (Béké) Power in Martinique and Guadeloupe,” in Howard Johnson and Karl Watson, eds., The White Minority in the Caribbean (Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, 1998...
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Locating the Transnational in Postwar African American History

Kevin Gaines
Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 193–202.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2008-015
Published: 01 March 2009
... to the global 202  |  Locating the Transnational in Postwar African American History reach of US hegemony and white supremacy, as manifested in such racist disturbances as the Notting Hill riots in Britain and oppressive white minority regimes in southern Africa. It is a tragic...
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Indigenous Sexualities: Rosamond S. King's Island Bodies and the Radical Politics of Scholarship

Lisa Outar
Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 241–249.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3843998
Published: 01 March 2017
...-to-minnesota-to-myself.html . The subtitle reads, “I knew I had to leave my home country—whether in a coffin or on a plane.” James does reverse the literary representations King tracks of sexual minorities acting as a means of deliverance for others, since it is two straight, white Minnesotan men whom James...
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The Fact of Blackness? The Bleached Body in Contemporary Jamaica

Winnifred Brown-Glaude
Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 34–51.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-11-3-34
Published: 01 October 2007
... strata of its racialized class system positioned between the majority black population (roughly ninety percent) and a tiny white minority. This group is over-represented among Jamaica’s elite and has substantial social and economic power. The brown elite dominated both...
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Politicizing In/Security, Transnational Resistance, and the 1919 Riots in Cardiff and Liverpool

David Featherstone
Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 56–67.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7249138
Published: 01 November 2018
... at the hands of racist white officers. 19 These factors are important in explaining why seafarers from racialized minorities became key targets of white rioters in port cities. Central here was the role of trade unions, especially the National Seamen and Firemen’s Union (NSFU), which was to later become...
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One Sustained Moment: The Constant Re-creation of Caribbean Sexualities

Rosamond S. King
Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 250–259.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3844010
Published: 01 March 2017
... and foreign white woman rather than between Caribbean people of African and Indian descent. King also addresses recent portrayals of Caribbean trans people and of Caribbean women who desire other women, in particular Shani Mootoo's Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab. Several recent court cases related...
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On the Self-Evidence of Blackness: An Interview with Charl Landvreugd

Wayne Modest
Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 123–136.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2826497
Published: 01 November 2014
... to be about the black experience. But what I found even more important was to critique the position that blackness had held for many. The black experience is always, or is too often, related as a minority position, in relation to a dominant majority whiteness; [it is] always the position of the suppressed...
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Constructing “Gaydren”: The Transnational Politics of Same-Sex Desire in 1970s and 1980s Jamaica

Matthew Chin
Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 17–33.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7703253
Published: 01 July 2019
... of sexual politics in Jamaica. As a form of political practice, gaydren challenges normative configurations of bredren and gay that emerge from political contexts that oppose white imperial domination to consider more nuanced approaches to both Jamaican and North Atlantic cultural influences. With GFM...
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Bigger than the Sound: The Jamaican Chinese Infrastructures of Reggae

Tao Leigh Goffe
Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 97–127.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8749806
Published: 01 November 2020
... groceries and sundries. At times the Chinese community has been negatively portrayed as forming a monopoly in small retail as a middleman minority with proximity to the white colonial structure, but Chinese diasporic capital fostered unexpected extracolonial conduits of sociality and creativity...
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Rereading Aimé Césaire: Negritude as Creolization

Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 121–128.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3341717
Published: 01 November 2015
... by Deleuze: that of a minor literature. Deleuze, said Césaire, has perfectly stated that “a minor literature is not that of a minor language but that of a minority writing in a major language.” 17 That situation, he emphasized, is the reality of Negritude. One implication is then evident: that Negritude...
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Black Memory versus State Memory: Notes toward a Method

Michael Hanchard
Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 45–62.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-12-2-45
Published: 01 June 2008
... history within national societies. [We] need to distinguish, in talking about memory, between episodes you might call ‘in technicolor’, which I described because they seemed essential and worthy of record, and the grey material, ‘in black and white’, the everyday routine...
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