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New Issue: Small Axe 79

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Small Axe 79: 3: 2026 is now available. This issue includes cover art (“Some Fruit Have Legs”) and “Visualities” section by Shoshanna Weinberger, and articles by Carole Boyce Davies, Raúl Fernández, Max Gruber, Gabrielle Jamela Hosein, Kamala Kempadoo, Rhoda Reddock, and more. See table of contents below or at sx 79. Articles are accessible through https://smallaxe.net/sx/issues/79.

Preface: The Inheritance of the Subversive 1970s – David Scott

Angola on Trial in Cuba: The Hidden History of Race in el caso Ochoa – Anasa Hicks 

“Popular” and “Literary” Caribbean Historical Fiction by Valerie Belgrave and David Dabydeen – Elizabeth Jackson 

A Sea of Sound, Water, and Time: A Greater Caribbean Musical Web – Raul Fernandez 

Shooting Speculation: Gordon Parks and Puerto Rican Modernity – Max Gruber 

Imagined Conversations with Caribbean Poets – Jessica Adams 

Rhoda Reddock: Scholar, Activist, Relentless Optimist 

Inspirations and Influences: Reflections on Some Impacts of Rhoda Reddock’s Life and Work – Kamala Kempadoo 

Making Mas of Freedom Denied: Rhoda Reddock, Nachorious and Post-Indenture Caribbean Feminism – Gabrielle Jamela Hosein 

Transformative Outreach: Rhoda Reddock’s Life Work – Jocelyne Guilbault 

Caribbean Feminist Praxis: The Scholarly and Activist Work of Rhoda Reddock – Carole Boyce Davies 

Own Way – Rhoda Reddock 

Visualities 

Invisible Visibility: Passing Between the Lines – Shoshanna Weinberger 

Book Discussion: Ryan Jobson, The Petro-State Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty, and Power in Trinidad and Tobago 

What is a Petro-State?  Masking and Unmasking Power in a Fossil Fueled World – J. Brent Crosson 

Dual Power – Chelsea Angela Schields 

What the Petro-state Does Do: Power in the Caribbean After 1973 – Ryan Jobson

For more information, see https://smallaxe.net/sx/issues/79

Small Axe 79: 3: 2026 is now available. This issue includes cover art (“Some Fruit Have Legs”) and “Visualities” section by Shoshanna Weinberger, and articles by Carole Boyce Davies, Raúl Fernández, Max Gruber, Gabrielle Jamela Hosein, Kamala Kempadoo, Rhoda Reddock, and more. See table of contents below or at sx 79. Articles are accessible through