Walter Rodney / Rupert Lewis (Caribbean Biography) - Softcover

Lewis, Rupert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9766409285 ISBN 13: 9789766409289

Verlag: University of the West Indies Press, 2024

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Walter Rodney wasan exceptional scholar-activist who not only interpreted the consequences ofcenturies of transatlantic slavery, colonialism and neocolonialism but alsoengaged in the struggles to change their racial, social and economic legacies.As these legacies persist into the twenty-first century, his life and writingsremain profoundly relevant.

 

He contributed toa distinctive intellectual blend of Black Power and Marxism, that had masssupport in the movements of the 1960s and 1970s in the Caribbean and Africa. Hehad a capacity for listening to people which drew Rastafari youth activists andothers to his “groundings”. When the Jamaican government banned him fromreturning to work at the University of the West Indies in October 1968, there wasa mass upheaval, and these demonstrations stimulated the Black Power andsocialist movements throughout the Caribbean. His most productive years were atthe University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, where he taught developmentstudies and wrote his seminal work, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Aprofound scholar of the history of the working people of his native Guyana, heembraced the democratic struggles of Africans and Indians. His radical activismand mass appeal as a leader of the Working People’s Alliance in Guyana ledPresident Forbes Burnham to have him assassinated.

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Rupert Lewis is
professor emeritus of political thought, the University of the West Indies,
Mona, Jamaica. He was editor of Bongo-Man
magazine which published Rodney's articles and one of the editors of the Abeng newspaper published in Kingston in
1969 that signalled the era of the Black Power movement in the Caribbean. For
over fifty years, he has been a public educator on Marcus Garvey and has authored
key works on Garvey and Rodney, including Marcus Garvey: Anti-Colonial Champion
and Walter Rodney's Intellectual and Political Thought. He is currently working
on a volume of Garvey's Jamaican writings.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of the West Indies Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9766409285
• ISBN 13: 9789766409289
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 90
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