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The second iteration of our Keywords project will be published in Small Axe 71, July 2023. in these essays contributors trace and explore the concept of cimarrón, marron, maroon across the region and from a range of approaches. Join us for a conversation with the authors.

Walter Rodney's landmark book, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa was first published in 1972. Even as it was published it was recognized as a major intervention into debates about African history, Caribbean history, and anticolonial and Pan-African critiques. Fifty years later, the question is: How should it now be read?

Detail from “Tableau historique de la Martinique: composé pour l'Impératrice Joséphine par l’abbé Nicolas Halma.” 1805-1809. Bibliothèque nationale de France

Join us for a virtual conversation with 
Gregory Pierrot
Gloria Wekker
Leniqueca A. Welcome
Omaris Z. Zamora

Moderated by Ryan Cecil Jobson and Vanessa Pérez-Rosario

We in the Small Axe Project join the wider Caribbean intellectual community in mourning the loss of Gordon Rohlehr (1942-2023). He was a towering figure, and unforgettable: a literary-cultural critic of unrivaled attunement, with an unerring sense for the sounds and rhythms of Caribbean popular practices, and a seemingly inexhaustible archive of Caribbean literary history. "Man gone," as he put it, signing off on a "bookman's" lifetime of intellectual work.

SX is excited to congratulate sx editorial assistant Dantaé Elliott on being named the Spring 2023 Hemispheric Institute Mellon Fellow at New York University!

Small Axe 69 opens with David Scott's preface, "The Last West Indian," in memory of George Lamming. This issue includes essays by Grace L. Sanders Johnson, Audra Diptée, Ben Etherington and Natalie Catasús. Julio Ramos guest edits our special section, "The Legacies of Luisa Capetillo," which marks the centenary of the Puerto Rican radical feminist's death, with contributions by Nancy Bird-Soto, Luis Othoniel Rosa, Beatriz Llenín-Figueroa and Jorrell A. Meléndez-Badillo.

Cover image: Walking Luisa. Capitolio. South Wing, San Juan. Photo by Marisol Plard Narváez. July-August 2021. Copyright Teresa Hernández and Marisol Plard Narváez. All rights reserved.

Small Axe 65, July 2021 features a special section titled “On Nancy Morejón’s Nación y mestizaje en Nicolás Guillén,” guest-edited by sx editorial committee member Antonio López. Two of the contributions to this dossier were published in Spanish. Translations from the Spanish into English are now available on the Small Axe website. Read the complete dossier by following the links below.

Small Axe editorial committee member Régine Michelle Jean-Charles has a new book out this month!  We asked her to tell us a bit about this project. Read what she has to say about her latest book: