The Point is to Change the World: Selected Writings of Andaiye (Black Critique)

Radical activist, thinker, comrade of Walter Rodney, Andaiye was one of the Caribbean's most important political voices. For the first time, her writings are published in one collection. Through essays, letters and journal entries, Andaiye's thinking on the intersections of gender, race, class and power are profoundly articulated, Caribbean histories emerge, and stories from a life lived at the barricades are revealed. We learn about the early years of the Working People's Alliance, the meaning and impact of the murder of Walter Rodney and the fall of the Grenada Revolution. Throughout, we bear witness to Andaiye's acute understanding of politics rooted in communities and the daily lives of so-called ordinary people. Featuring forewords by Clem Seecharan and Robin DG Kelley, these texts will become vital tools in our own struggles to 'overturn the power relations which are embedded in every unequal facet of our lives'. "Radical activist, thinker, and comrade of Walter Rodney, Andaiye was one of the Caribbean's most important political voices. For the first time, her writings are published in one collection. Through essays, letters, and journal entries, Andaiye's thinking on the intersections of gender, race, class, and power are powerfully articulated, Caribbean histories emerge, and stories from a life lived at the barricades are revealed. We learn about the early years of the Working People's Alliance, the meaning and impact of the murder of Walter Rodney and the fall of the Grenada Revolution. Throughout, we bear witness to Andaiye's acute understanding of politics rooted in communities and the daily lives of so-called ordinary people. Featuring forewords by Clem Seecharan and Robin DG Kelley, these texts will become vital tools in our own struggles to 'overcome the power relations that are embedded in every unequal facet of our lives.'"-- Provided by publisher Radical activist, thinker, comrade of Walter Rodney, Andaiye was one of the Caribbean's most important political voices. For the first time, her writings are published in one collection. Through essays, speeches, letters and journal entries, Andaiye's thinking on the intersections of gender, race, class and power are profoundly articulated, Caribbean histories emerge, and stories from a life lived at the barricades are revealed. We learn about the early years of the Working People's Alliance, the meaning and impact of the murder of Walter Rodney and the fall of the Grenada Revolution. Throughout, we bear witness to Andaiye's acute understanding of politics rooted in communities and the daily lives of so-called ordinary people. Featuring forewords by Clem Seecharan, Robin DG Kelley and Honor Ford-Smith, these texts will become vital tools in our own struggles to'overturn the power relations which are embedded in every unequal facet of our lives'. Foreword by Clem Seecharan Foreword by Robin DG Kelley Introduction Part I: Learning Lessons from Past Organizing 1. The Good and Bad of Some Earlier Feminist and Left Organizing in the Region 2. Notes on the Guyana Indian/African Race Divide and on Organizing Within and Against It Part II: A Different Perspective: Starting with the Unwaged Caring Work of Mainly Women We Reach All Sectors 3. Why and How To Count Unwaged Work 4. Breaking the Frontier Between Home and Street, Unwaged and Waged Part III: The Political in the Personal 5. My Breast and Yours, and the Inequalities of Power 6. Women and Depression: Auto/Biographies 7. Undomesticating Violence Part IV: Towards Strengthening the Movement 8. Gender, Race and Class: A Perspective on the Contemporary Caribbean Struggle Last Word: Walter Rodney's Last Writing on and for the Guyanese Working People 5b5261101724ccd9be981e360e86807a6b00a77f0dfa2f162c4f35debeb986f3.pdf 1 63c6890483c4fd3f86e5971950ee937adfaea1e7d6fc054b046235e3b3e227cb.pdf 2 e1e767dbf77679108975dc9425a821122918b83039ab0c5cc1f67d3b912261a9.pdf 179 An inspiring collection from one of the Caribbean's most vital political figures.