Research Catalog

Title

The Legacy of Walter Rodney in Guyana and the Caribbean / Arnold Gibbons ; With an Introduction by Wazir Mohamed.

Author

Gibbons, Arnold

Publication

Lanham, Maryland : University Press of America, Inc., [2011]

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Details

Description

xiii, 221 pages; 23 cm

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."--Page 4 of cover.

Subject

• Rodney, Walter
• Rodney, Walter, 1942-1980
• Since 1966
• Political activists > Guyana
• Equality > Guyana
• Equality > Caribbean Area
• Activistes > Guyana
• Equality
• Political activists
• Soziale Ungleichheit
• Kolonialismus
• Entwicklung
• Geschichte
• Guyana
• Guyana > History > 1966-
• Guyana > Histoire > 1966-
• Caribbean Area

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-216) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Identity and ideology -- Education and historical consciousness -- Politics in the diaspora race in post-slavery societies -- Slavery and Black power -- Intellectualism and its demand -- The approach to Armageddon -- The assassination of Walter Rodney -- Garvey and Rodney -- C. L. R. James, Rodney and the taking of power.

ISBN

• 9780761854135
• 0761854134
• 9780761854142 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2010937551

OCLC

• 698331594
• SCSB-11384517

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library