The Point is to Change the World: Selected Writings by Andaiye
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’.
Alissa Trotz is a Professor in the University of Toronto’s Department of Women & Gender Studies and the Department of Caribbean Studies. Her work explores transnational feminism; social movements; political violence; history, memory and archives; and transnational migration and diaspora.
Other publications from this author include:
- Unmasking the State: Politics, Society and Economy in Guyana 1992-2015 (2019)
- “Gaiutra Bahadur’s Coolie Woman: Intimacies, Proximities, Relationalities” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 56 (7) 219-231 (2018)
- “Engaging the Diasporas: An Alternative Paradigm from the Caribbean” in New Rules for Global Justice: Structural Redistribution in the Global Economy (2016)
- Gender, Ethnicity and Place: Women and Identity in Guyana (2014)