The Point is to Change the World (eBook)

Selected Writings of Andaiye

Andaiye (Autor)

Alissa Trotz (Herausgeber)

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2020
320 Seiten
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-1-78680-623-9 (ISBN)

Infos

An inspiring collection from one of the Caribbean's most vital political figures.

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Radical activist, thinker, comrade of Walter Rodney, Andaiye was one of the Caribbean's most important political voices. For the first time, her writings are published in one collection.Through essays, speeches, letters and journal entries, Andaiye's thinking on the intersections of gender, race, class and power are profoundly articulated, Caribbean histories emerge, and stories from a life lived at the barricades are revealed. We learn about the early years of the Working People's Alliance, the meaning and impact of the murder of Walter Rodney and the fall of the Grenada Revolution. Throughout, we bear witness to Andaiye's acute understanding of politics rooted in communities and the daily lives of so-called ordinary people.Featuring forewords by Clem Seecharan, Robin DG Kelley and Honor Ford-Smith, these texts will become vital tools in our own struggles to 'overturn the power relations which are embedded in every unequal facet of our lives'.

Autor

lt;p>Andaiye was a Guyanese social, political, and gender rights activist. She was an early member of the executive of the Working People's Alliance, a founding member of the women's development organisation Red Thread in Guyana in 1986 and an executive member of the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action.

Alissa Trotz is the Director of the Women & Gender Studies Institute, and Director of the undergraduate Caribbean Studies Program at New College at the University of Toronto.

Inhalt

Foreword by Clem Seecharan

Foreword by Robin DG Kelley

Foreword by Honor Ford-Smith

Introduction

Part I: Learning Lessons from Past Organizing

1. The Good and Bad of Some Earlier Feminist and Left Organizing in the Region

2. Notes on the Guyana Indian/African Race Divide and on Organizing Within and Against It

Part II: A Different Perspective: Starting with the Unwaged Caring Work of Mainly Women We Reach All Sectors

3. Why and How To Count Unwaged Work

4. Breaking the Frontier Between Home and Street, Unwaged and Waged

Part III: The Political in the Personal

5. My Breast and Yours, and the Inequalities of Power

6. Women and Depression: Auto/Biographies

7. Undomesticating Violence

Part IV: Towards Strengthening the Movement

8. Gender, Race and Class: A Perspective on the Contemporary Caribbean Struggle

Last Word: Walter Rodney's Last Writing on and for the Guyanese Working People

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.4.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Black Critique
• Reihe/Serie: Black Critique
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: black women's writing • Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action • Global Women’s Strike • Grenada • Guyana • Jamaica • New Jewel Movement • Wages for Housework Campaign • Walter Rodney • Working People’s Alliance of Guyana
• ISBN-10: 1-78680-623-1 / 1786806231
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78680-623-9 / 9781786806239