My Fight for Guyana's Freedom
Author: Cheddi Jagan
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 471
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Author: Cheddi Jagan
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 471
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 496
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 466
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 30
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 463
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 435
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Brackette F. Williams
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1991-04-12
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780822311195
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBurdened with a heritage of both Spanish and British colonization and imperialism, Guyana is today caught between its colonial past, its efforts to achieve the consciousness of nationhood, and the need of its diverse subgroups to maintain their own identity. Stains on My Name, War in My Veins chronicles the complex struggles of the citizens of Guyana to form a unified national culture against the pulls of ethnic, religious, and class identities. Drawing on oral histories and a close study of daily life in rural Guyana, Brackette E. Williams examines how and why individuals and groups in their quest for recognition as a “nation” reproduce ethnic chauvinism, racial stereotyping, and religious bigotry. By placing her ethnographic study in a broader historical context, the author develops a theoretical understanding of the relations among various dimensions of personal identity in the process of nation building.
Author: Janet Jagan
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 12
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Publisher: Milton, Ont. : Harpy
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780968405901
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tera W. Hunter
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1998-09-15
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0674893085
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the Civil War drew to a close, newly emancipated black women workers made their way to Atlanta--the economic hub of the newly emerging urban and industrial south--in order to build an independent and free life on the rubble of their enslaved past. In an original and dramatic work of scholarship, Tera Hunter traces their lives in the postbellum era and reveals the centrality of their labors to the African-American struggle for freedom and justice. Household laborers and washerwomen were constrained by their employers' domestic worlds but constructed their own world of work, play, negotiation, resistance, and community organization. Hunter follows African-American working women from their newfound optimism and hope at the end of the Civil War to their struggles as free domestic laborers in the homes of their former masters. We witness their drive as they build neighborhoods and networks and their energy as they enjoy leisure hours in dance halls and clubs. We learn of their militance and the way they resisted efforts to keep them economically depressed and medically victimized. Finally, we understand the despair and defeat provoked by Jim Crow laws and segregation and how they spurred large numbers of black laboring women to migrate north. Hunter weaves a rich and diverse tapestry of the culture and experience of black women workers in the post-Civil War south. Through anecdote and data, analysis and interpretation, she manages to penetrate African-American life and labor and to reveal the centrality of women at the inception--and at the heart--of the new south.