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

Title
  1. The Legacy of Walter Rodney in Guyana and the Caribbean / Arnold Gibbons ; With an Introduction by Wazir Mohamed.
Published by
  1. Lanham, Maryland : University Press of America, Inc., [2011]
Author
  1. Gibbons, Arnold

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Description
  1. xiii, 221 pages; 23 cm
Summary
  1. "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
  1. Rodney, Walter
  2. Rodney, Walter, 1942-1980
  3. Since 1966
  4. Political activists > Guyana
  5. Equality > Guyana
  6. Equality > Caribbean Area
  7. Activistes > Guyana
  8. Equality
  9. Political activists
  10. Soziale Ungleichheit
  11. Kolonialismus
  12. Entwicklung
  13. Geschichte
  14. Guyana
  15. Guyana > History > 1966-
  16. Guyana > Histoire > 1966-
  17. Caribbean Area
Genre/Form
  1. History
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-216) and index.
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