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Indentured Labor & Guyanese Politics

"The People's Progressive Party in Guyana was a multiracial socialist party with very hopeful beginnings, cognizant of our history as colonized descendants of the enslaved and indentured. But it's a tragic casualty of Cold War politics. We now have two political parties that are essentially racialized."
The People's Progressive Party in Guyana was a multiracial socialist party with very hopeful beginnings, cognizant of our history as colonized descendants of the enslaved and indentured. But it's a tragic casualty of Cold War politics. We now have two political parties that are essentially racialized.

RECOMMENDED: Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture by Gaiutra Bahadur.

The People's Progressive Party in Guyana was a multiracial socialist party with very hopeful beginnings, cognizant of our history as colonized descendants of the enslaved and indentured. But it's a tragic casualty of Cold War politics. We now have two political parties that are essentially racialized.

RECOMMENDED: Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture by Gaiutra Bahadur.

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Interview
Guyana
2020 Guyanese Election
People's Progressive Party
Cold War Politics
Black-Indian Tensions in Guyana
Cheddi Jagan
Black Solidarities
Forbes Burnham
Coolitude
Fictional Essay
Khal Torabully
Avant-Garde Destabilizing History
Irfaan Ali
David Granger
Ethnically Divided Politics
Indentured Labor
Labor
Indo-Caribbean
Georgetown

Gaiutra Bahadur is an essayist, critic, and journalist. She is the author of Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture, which was shortlisted in 2014 for the Orwell Prize, the British literary prize for artful political writing. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, New York Review of Books, The New Republic, The Guardian, The Nation, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Lapham’s Quarterly, Dissent, The Boston Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Ms. Magazine, Foreign Policy, The Washington Post and The Griffith Review. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Arts, Culture, and Media at Rutgers University in Newark.

11 Oct 2020
Interview
Guyana
11th
Oct
2020
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