Point Is to Change the World
Selected Writings of Andaiye
Published on 1. July 2020
320 pages
978-1-77113-508-5 (ISBN)
Description
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 Peopl's Alliance, the meaning asnd 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."
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Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Forewords
- Andaiye's Radical Imagination-with Special Reference to Her Engagement with the Working People's Alliance: Clem Seecharan
- Between Home and Street: Andaiye's Revolutionary Vision: Robin D. G. Kelley
- The Principle of Justice as a Labor of Caring: Honor Ford-Smith
- Editor's Note: On the Politics of Precision
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Part One Learning Lessons from Past Organizing
- Section I The Good and Bad of Some Earlier Feminist and Left Organizing in the Region
- 1 The Angle You Look from Determines What You See: Towards a Critique of Feminist Politics and Organizing in the Caribbean [2002]
- 2 The Historic Centrality of Mr. Slime: George Lamming's Pursuit of Class Betrayal in Novels and Speeches [2003]
- 3 The Grenada Revolution, the Caribbean Left, and the Regional Women's Movement: Preliminary Notes on One Journey [2010]
- 4 Conversations about Organizing: Revised Excerpts from an Interview with Andaiye by David Scott [2004]
- Section II Notes on the Guyana Indian/African Race Divide, and on Organizing within and against it
- 5 1964: The Rupture of Neighborliness and its Legacy for Indian/African Relations [2008
- 2018] (with D. Alissa Trotz)
- 6 Organizing within and against Race Divides: Lessons from Guyana's African Society for Cultural Relations with Independent Africa, Indian Political Revolutionary Associates, and the Early Working People's Alliance [2008, 2017/2018]
- 7 Three Letters against Race Violence [2004, 2008]
- Part Two A Different Perspective: Starting with the Unwaged Caring Work of Mainly Women We Reach all Sectors
- Section I Why and How to Count Unwaged Work
- 8 Valuing Unwaged Work: A Preparatory Brief for CARICOM Ministers Responsible for Women's Affairs Attending the 4th World Conference on Women [1994]
- 9 Grassroots Women Learning to Count their Unwaged Work: Summary Report on a 2001-2002 Trial [2009]
- 10 Looking at the Legalization of Abortion from the Perspective of Women as Unwaged Carers [1993]
- Section II Breaking the Frontier between Home and Street, Unwaged and Waged
- 11 Strike for a Millennium which Values all Women's Work and all Women's Lives: A Call to Action [2000]
- 12 The Impact of the IMF Structural Adjustment Programme on Women's Unwaged Work and How We Can Resist It [c.mid-1980s]
- 13 Housewives and Other Carers in the Guyanese Resistance of the Late 1970s and Early 1980s: Looking Back [2010]
- 14 Four Letters in Defense of Workers, Unwaged and Waged, and their Families [2011, 2012, 2018]
- Part Three The Political in the Personal
- Section I My Breast and Yours, and the Inequalities of Power
- 15 The War on Cancer as Seen by an Embattled Survivor [2017/2018]
- 16 Sister Survivor: For Audre Lorde [1992]
- Section II Women and Depression: Auto/biographies
- 17 Asylum: Diary of the Last Seven Days in a Women's Psychiatric Ward [c.1973]
- 18 M: A Daughter's Tale [c.1982]
- Section III Undomesticating Violence
- 19 Against the Beating of Children: Submission to a Parliamentary Sub-committee on the Corporal Punishment of Children [2013] 192
- 20 Three Letters against Sexual Violence against Children [2010] 194
- 21 Knife Edge: Living with Domestic and Economic Violence [2013] 201
- 22 Women as Collateral Damage in Race Violence [2002]
- 23 Sexual Violence is a Question of Whose Honor? [2000] 210
- 24 Sexual Abuse and the Uses of Power [2018]
- 25 Letter to the Police Complaints Authority on an Allegation of Rape against a Police Commissioner [2012]
- Part Four Towards Strengthening the Movement
- 26 Gender, Race, and Class: A Perspective on the Contemporary Caribbean Struggle [2009]
- Last Word
- 27 Walter Rodney's Last Writing on and for the Guyanese Working People [2010]
- Afterword: Andaiye and the Caribbean Radical Organizing Tradition: Anthony Bogues
- Index
