The Groundings With My BrothersIn his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. His deportation catalyzed 20th century Jamaica's most significant rebellion, the 1968 Rodney riots, and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney would be assassinated. In this classic work published in the heady days of anti-colonial revolution, Groundings with My Brothers follows the global circulation of emancipatory ideas, from the black students of North America to the Rasta counter-culture of Jamaica and beyond. The book is striking in its simultaneous ability to survey the wide and heterogenous international context while remaining anchored in grassroots politics, as Rodney offers us first-hand accounts of mass movement organizing. Having inspired a generation of revolutionaries, this new edition will re-introduce the book to a new political landscape that it helped shape, with reflections from leading scholar-activists such as Carole Boyce Davies |
Contents
Editors Note | |
Statement of the Jamaican Situation | |
Black Power a Basic Understanding | |
Black Power Its Relevance to the West Indies | |
African History and Culture | |
African History in the Service of Black Revolution | |
The Groundings with My Brothers | |
Living the Groundings A Personal Context | |
The Conscious Youth | |
The Groundings with My Brothers at Fifty | |
The Continued Relevance of Walter Rodneys Groundings | |
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