Where the Present is Haunted by the Past
Disarticulating Colonialism's Legacy in the Caribbean
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3877677 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Guha Shankar (The University of Texas at Austin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 57-87 |
| Publication date | 1999-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Dynamics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0921-3740 • E-ISSN: 1461-7048 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/092137409901100104 |
| OpenAlex | W2126251782 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 34 |
The complex theoretical and political formulations of the Caribbean historian and activist Walter Rodney (1942-80) were based on a strategy of bringing to light and thereby undermining the divisive influence of pejorative colonialera constructions of the various racial diasporas in the region. His interventions in public life in Jamaica and Guyana in the late 1960s and 1970s which foreground race without essentializing it, and which refuse to submit to the false opposition of 'race or class' in social analysis and organizing, contribute to an understanding of how strategic and expansive uses of 'blackness' work within and across nation-states to articulate new forms of politics. Walter Ro(iney's life and work also has much to tell us about how to conduct an engaged, socially relevant academic praxis
Aesthetics · Art · Expansive · Pejorative · Political science · Politics · Praxis · Sociology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Cuban History and Society · Gender Studies · Law · Philippine History and Culture
How Europe underdeveloped Africa
A history of the Upper Guinea Coast, 1545-1800.
The plural society in the British West Indies
Reinventing anthropology.
Racism after 'race relations'
Guyana
Stains on My Name, War in My Veins
A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905
Selected Subaltern studies
Class conflict and racist ideology in the formation of modern Guyanese society
Race, ideology, and power in Guyana
The Rodney riots in Jamaica
The Rise of the First Mass-Based Multi-Racial Party in Guyana
The Black Scholar Interviews
Contemporary Political Trends in the English-speaking Caribbean
Interviews
Race, nation, class
The Making of an Organic Intellectual
People's Power, no Dictator
Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History
Race and Class in the Postcolonial Caribbean
A Class Act
The Matrifocal Family
Culture and Imperialism
Walter Rodney, Revolutionary and Scholar
Race, Class, and the World System
Race and the Culture of Anthropology
The groundings of Walter Rodney
Guyana's socialism
Cultural Pluralism and Nationalist Politics in British Guiana
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |