Book Launch: The Fire That Time: Black Transnational Radicalism and the Sir George Williams Occupation
Book Launch: The Fire That Time: Black Transnational Radicalism and the Sir George Williams Occupation
Date: Friday, January 14th 2022
Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
Congratulations to the People of Barbados
The Small Axe Project salutes the people of Barbados on the important political step it has taken (30 November 2021), removing the queen as head of state, and assuming the identity of a republic. There is much more to be done. We hope that other anglophone Caribbean nation-states will follow suit. And we hope that this is but the beginning of a renewed conversation in the region about the relation between the colonial past and the postcolonial present, between dependence and sovereignty.
David Scott
Race:Gender:Class presents "How Can We Think About the Implications & Local/Trans-national Resonances of Hemispheric Creole Whiteness”
From the University of Johannesburg's Center of the Study of Race, Gender & Class
Date: Wednesday, November 124h
Time: 18:00 SAST / 11:00 EST
Register here.
“How Can We Think About the Implications & Local/Trans-national Resonances of Hemispheric Creole Whiteness”
Global Blackness Summer School ‘21 / Black Articulation Otherwise
Aaron Kamugisha to present keynote address at 9th Annual Critical Caribbean Symposium
Small Axe editorial committee member Aaron Kamugisha will deliver the keynote address at the University of the Bahama's 9th Annual Critical Caribbean Symposium: Celebrating the Cultural and Intellectual Legacy of Sylvia Wynter.
The symposium will also include presentations by previous Small Axe contributors Rinaldo Walcott (sx57) and Tonya Haynes (sx49).
Date: Friday, November 19th
Time: 10am-1:30pm EDT
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Tami Navarro discusses first book, Virgin Capital: Race, Gender, and Financialization in the US Virgin Islands
sx editorial committee member Tami Navarro and journalist Brian Goldstone will discuss their book-writing process in the upcoming event, From PhD to Book: How Ethnography Is An Important Step, sponsored by Duke University's Ethnography Workshop.
Date: Friday, October 15th
Time: 12pm EDT
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Regine Jean-Charles writes about Haitian migrant crisis for Ms. magazine
Read sx editorial committee member Regine Jean-Charles' essay, "The Biden Administration’s Expulsion of Haitians Is Unconscionable—and a Missed Opportunity," here.
The Crisis of Haitians at the US-Mexico Border
We in the Small Axe Project deplore in the strongest moral terms the slave-era-like treatment of Haitians trying to cross the border into the United States from Mexico. Ordinary men, women, and children fleeing political instability, economic misery, and quasi-natural catastrophes ought never to be treated as though there were "No Humans Involved" (as Sylvia Wynter might have said). There is a history here in which the dark hand of the United States is deeply implicated, and therefore responsible.
David Scott
Rest In Peace Charles W. Mills (1951-2021)
We are shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of Charles W. Mills (1951-2021). Mills passed away on the evening of Monday 20 September. Our condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues. A distinguished professor at the CUNY Graduate Center, Mills was a philosopher of wide-ranging interests who was perhaps best known for his critique of the white supremacist sources and character of liberalism and the disavowal of race in academic philosophy. He will be missed by many.
sx65 is now available!
sx65 is now available!
sx65 presents essays by Nadège Veldwachter, Mark Harris, César Colón-Montijo, Sarah Margarita Quesada and Lomarsh Roopnarine. Antonio López guest-edits the special section, "On Nancy Morejón’s Nación y Mestizaje en Nicolás Guillén" which includes essays by Devyn Spence Benson, Odette Casamayor, Aisha Z.