Author: Walter Rodney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ashanti (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Kofi Baadu Out of Africa
Author: Walter Rodney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ashanti (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ashanti (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Lakshmi Out of India
Author: Walter Rodney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996095372
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The book traces the experience of a young East Indian migrant girl from an agricultural village called Rajipur in Uttar Pradesh, India. Lakshmi led a simple, carefree life, which changed when she lost her family in the floods of 1860 and faced neglect and abuse. Desperate for a better life and good pay, she accepted a local recruiter's offer of work in Guyana. Before leaving, Lakshmi married a young man she met at the Emigration Office in Calcutta - it was a marriage of convenience to ensure her safety as she embarked into the unknown. The book reflects on Lakshmi's family, history and culture which, despite the arduous conditions of indentureship, are evident in Guyanese society today.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996095372
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The book traces the experience of a young East Indian migrant girl from an agricultural village called Rajipur in Uttar Pradesh, India. Lakshmi led a simple, carefree life, which changed when she lost her family in the floods of 1860 and faced neglect and abuse. Desperate for a better life and good pay, she accepted a local recruiter's offer of work in Guyana. Before leaving, Lakshmi married a young man she met at the Emigration Office in Calcutta - it was a marriage of convenience to ensure her safety as she embarked into the unknown. The book reflects on Lakshmi's family, history and culture which, despite the arduous conditions of indentureship, are evident in Guyanese society today.
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Author: Walter Rodney
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1788731204
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
“A call to arms in the class struggle for racial equity”—the hugely influential work of political theory and history, now powerfully introduced by Angela Davis (Los Angeles Review of Books). This legendary classic on European colonialism in Africa stands alongside C.L.R. James’ Black Jacobins, Eric Williams’ Capitalism & Slavery, and W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. His deportation catalyzed 20th century Jamaica's most significant rebellion, the 1968 Rodney riots, and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney would be assassinated. In his magnum opus, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Rodney incisively argues that grasping "the great divergence" between the west and the rest can only be explained as the exploitation of the latter by the former. This meticulously researched analysis of the abiding repercussions of European colonialism on the continent of Africa has not only informed decades of scholarship and activism, it remains an indispensable study for grasping global inequality today.
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1788731204
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
“A call to arms in the class struggle for racial equity”—the hugely influential work of political theory and history, now powerfully introduced by Angela Davis (Los Angeles Review of Books). This legendary classic on European colonialism in Africa stands alongside C.L.R. James’ Black Jacobins, Eric Williams’ Capitalism & Slavery, and W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. His deportation catalyzed 20th century Jamaica's most significant rebellion, the 1968 Rodney riots, and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney would be assassinated. In his magnum opus, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Rodney incisively argues that grasping "the great divergence" between the west and the rest can only be explained as the exploitation of the latter by the former. This meticulously researched analysis of the abiding repercussions of European colonialism on the continent of Africa has not only informed decades of scholarship and activism, it remains an indispensable study for grasping global inequality today.
Kofi Baadu Out of Africa
Author: Walter Rodney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996095327
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996095327
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Poetics and Politics of Diaspora
Author: Jerome C. Branche
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317627695
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
This book studies the creative discourse of the modern African diaspora by analyzing poems, novels, essays, hip-hop and dub poetry in the Caribbean, England, Spain, and Colombia, and capturing diasporan movement through mutually intersecting axes of dislocation and relocation, and efforts at political group affirmation and settlement, or “location.” Branche’s study connects London’s multimillion-dollar riots of 2011, and its antecedents associated with the West Indian settler community, to the discontent and harrowing conditions facing black immigrants to contemporary Spain as gateway to Fortress Europe. It links the brutal massacres that target Colombia’s dispossessed and displaced poor - and mainly black - “throwaway” citizens, victims of the drug trade and neoliberal expansionism, to older Caribbean stories that tell of the original spurts of capitalist greed, and the colonial cauldron it created, at the center of which lay the slave trade. In revisiting the question of what really has awaited Afro-descendants at the end of the Middle Passage, this volume brings transatlantic slavery, the making of weak postcolonial states that bleed people, and the needle’s eye of racial identification together through a close reading of rappers, black radicals, dub poetry, and novelists from Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Branche at once demonstrates the existence of an archive of Afro-modern diasporan, discursive production, and just as importantly, points toward a historically-rooted theoretical framework that would contain its liberatory trajectory.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317627695
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
This book studies the creative discourse of the modern African diaspora by analyzing poems, novels, essays, hip-hop and dub poetry in the Caribbean, England, Spain, and Colombia, and capturing diasporan movement through mutually intersecting axes of dislocation and relocation, and efforts at political group affirmation and settlement, or “location.” Branche’s study connects London’s multimillion-dollar riots of 2011, and its antecedents associated with the West Indian settler community, to the discontent and harrowing conditions facing black immigrants to contemporary Spain as gateway to Fortress Europe. It links the brutal massacres that target Colombia’s dispossessed and displaced poor - and mainly black - “throwaway” citizens, victims of the drug trade and neoliberal expansionism, to older Caribbean stories that tell of the original spurts of capitalist greed, and the colonial cauldron it created, at the center of which lay the slave trade. In revisiting the question of what really has awaited Afro-descendants at the end of the Middle Passage, this volume brings transatlantic slavery, the making of weak postcolonial states that bleed people, and the needle’s eye of racial identification together through a close reading of rappers, black radicals, dub poetry, and novelists from Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Branche at once demonstrates the existence of an archive of Afro-modern diasporan, discursive production, and just as importantly, points toward a historically-rooted theoretical framework that would contain its liberatory trajectory.
The Groundings With My Brothers
Author: Walter Rodney
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1788731158
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
"I have sat on a little oil drum, rusty and in the midst of garbage, and some black brothers and I have grounded together." - Walter Rodney In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. His deportation catalyzed 20th century Jamaica's most significant rebellion, the 1968 Rodney riots, and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney would be assassinated. In this classic work published in the heady days of international black power, Groundings with My Brothers details the global circulation of emancipatory ideas, but also offers first-hand reports of Rodney's mass movement organizing. Introduced and contextualized by leading Caribbean scholar-activists, this updated edition brings Rodney's legacy to a new generation of radicals.
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1788731158
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
"I have sat on a little oil drum, rusty and in the midst of garbage, and some black brothers and I have grounded together." - Walter Rodney In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. His deportation catalyzed 20th century Jamaica's most significant rebellion, the 1968 Rodney riots, and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney would be assassinated. In this classic work published in the heady days of international black power, Groundings with My Brothers details the global circulation of emancipatory ideas, but also offers first-hand reports of Rodney's mass movement organizing. Introduced and contextualized by leading Caribbean scholar-activists, this updated edition brings Rodney's legacy to a new generation of radicals.
A Revolutionary for Our Time
Author: Leo Zeilig
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1642596787
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
Walter Rodney was a scholar, working class militant, and revolutionary from Guyana. Strongly influenced by Marxist ideas, he remains central to radical Pan-Africanist thought for large numbers of activists’ today. Rodney lived through the failed –though immensely hopeful -socialist experiments in the 1960s and 1970s, in Tanzania and elsewhere. The book critically considers Rodney's contribution to Marxist theory and history, his relationship to dependency theory and the contemporary significance of his work in the context of movements and politics today. The first full-length study of Rodney’s life, this book is an essential introduction to Rodney's work.
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1642596787
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
Walter Rodney was a scholar, working class militant, and revolutionary from Guyana. Strongly influenced by Marxist ideas, he remains central to radical Pan-Africanist thought for large numbers of activists’ today. Rodney lived through the failed –though immensely hopeful -socialist experiments in the 1960s and 1970s, in Tanzania and elsewhere. The book critically considers Rodney's contribution to Marxist theory and history, his relationship to dependency theory and the contemporary significance of his work in the context of movements and politics today. The first full-length study of Rodney’s life, this book is an essential introduction to Rodney's work.
Pan-African History
Author: Hakim Adi
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134689322
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Pan-African History brings together Pan-Africanist thinkers and activists from the Anglophone and Francophone worlds of the past two-hundred years. Included are well-known figures such as Malcolm X, W.E.B. Du Bois, Kwame Nkrumah, and Martin Delany, and the authors' original research on lesser-known figures such as Constance Cummings-John and Dusé Mohammed Ali reveals exciting new aspects of Pan-African activism.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134689322
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Pan-African History brings together Pan-Africanist thinkers and activists from the Anglophone and Francophone worlds of the past two-hundred years. Included are well-known figures such as Malcolm X, W.E.B. Du Bois, Kwame Nkrumah, and Martin Delany, and the authors' original research on lesser-known figures such as Constance Cummings-John and Dusé Mohammed Ali reveals exciting new aspects of Pan-African activism.
A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory
Author: Michael Payne
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118438817
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Now thoroughly updated and revised, this new edition of the highly acclaimed dictionary provides an authoritative and accessible guide to modern ideas in the broad interdisciplinary fields of cultural and critical theory Updated to feature over 40 new entries including pieces on Alain Badiou, Ecocriticism, Comparative Racialization , Ordinary Language Philosophy and Criticism, and Graphic Narrative Includes reflective, broad-ranging articles from leading theorists including Julia Kristeva, Stanley Cavell, and Simon Critchley Features a fully updated bibliography Wide-ranging content makes this an invaluable dictionary for students of a diverse range of disciplines
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118438817
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Now thoroughly updated and revised, this new edition of the highly acclaimed dictionary provides an authoritative and accessible guide to modern ideas in the broad interdisciplinary fields of cultural and critical theory Updated to feature over 40 new entries including pieces on Alain Badiou, Ecocriticism, Comparative Racialization , Ordinary Language Philosophy and Criticism, and Graphic Narrative Includes reflective, broad-ranging articles from leading theorists including Julia Kristeva, Stanley Cavell, and Simon Critchley Features a fully updated bibliography Wide-ranging content makes this an invaluable dictionary for students of a diverse range of disciplines
Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora
Author: Carole Elizabeth Boyce Davies
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
ISBN: 9781851097005
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
"Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora spans global history, tracing the movements that created the African Diaspora and the ways that African peoples have recreated themselves all over the world. Emphasizing the recurring themes of dispersal, re-creation, and transformation, the encyclopedia offers vivid coverage of Diaspora communities, locations, peoples, culture and the arts, historical events, organizations, and theories and concepts developed by the scholars who have made this field of inquiry so rich and evocative."--pub. desc.
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
ISBN: 9781851097005
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
"Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora spans global history, tracing the movements that created the African Diaspora and the ways that African peoples have recreated themselves all over the world. Emphasizing the recurring themes of dispersal, re-creation, and transformation, the encyclopedia offers vivid coverage of Diaspora communities, locations, peoples, culture and the arts, historical events, organizations, and theories and concepts developed by the scholars who have made this field of inquiry so rich and evocative."--pub. desc.