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The Legacy of Walter Rodney in Guyana and the Caribbean
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2012
Summary
Walter Rodney claimed developing countries were heirs to uneven development and ethnic disequilibrium, including continued forms of oppression from the capitalist countries and their own leaders. In Guyana, ethnic chauvinism persisted before and after independence from Britain. Rodney was disturbed by the inability of intellectuals to share common cause with the masses, thus ensuring that they would be unable to contribute to uplifting their talents or participate in the growth of the nation. Guyana and the Caribbean were subject to sugar and slave traffic that constituted cheap labor for the plantations and buttressed the capitalist-industrial system. A significant byproduct of that system was the master-slave relationship; a no-less iniquitous consequence was an active racism. Thus, social inequality became the heritage of Guyanese and Caribbean history. These social evils have influenced all of the social, economic, and political institutions in Guyana. Race, class, and color became the determinants of social value and how the various racial groups responded to them is both the triumph and the tragedy of Guyanese nationalism. Rodney belongs in that pantheon of philosophers whose names adorn the history of the Caribbean and elsewhere. He has sought to lift the Caribbean people from the victimization of history and the poverty of material circumstance.
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Edition
1/2012
Copyright Year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-7618-5413-5
ISBN-Online
978-0-7618-5414-2
Publisher
Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
221
Product Type
Monograph
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Table of Contents No access
Acknowledgements No access
Introduction No access
Chapter I: Identity and Ideology No access Pages 1 - 26
Chapter II: Education and Historical Consciousness No access Pages 27 - 60
Chapter III: Politics in the Diaspora Race in Post-slavery Societies No access Pages 61 - 80
Chapter IV: Slavery and Black Power No access Pages 81 - 116
Chapter V: Intellectualism and its Demands No access Pages 117 - 160
Chapter VI: The Approach to Armageddon No access Pages 161 - 184
Chapter VII: Assassination of Walter Rodney No access Pages 185 - 192
Chapter VIII: Garvey and Rodney No access Pages 193 - 202
Chapter IX: C. L. R. James, Rodney and the Taking of Power No access Pages 203 - 212
