In The Diaspora

Kamala Harris, Guyana, and unrealized metaphor

  By Percy Hintzen   Percy Hintzen is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and Professor of Global and Sociocultural Studies and Director of African and African Diaspora Studies at Florida International University.

Getting ready for conversations in Lusignan. Photo courtesy of Sherlina Nageer

Moving forward better Guyana

By Alissa Trotz Alissa Trotz is Editor of the In the Diaspora Column On Friday September 11th (birth anniversary of Andaiye, social justice warrior and co-founder of Red Thread), Red Thread invited all Guyanese to a virtual speakout streamed live on Facebook (you can view it on Red Thread Women: Crossroads Women’s Centre).

Guyanese Cuisine Culture

By G. J. Giddings Dr. Jahwara Giddings is Professor of History at Central State UniversityIt is always a good time to reiterate Guyana’s food traditions, practices, and prospects, and to emphasize the power and potential of good food in general.

The 1921 U.S. Passport Application
of Mohaiyuddin Khan,  Courtesy of Gaiutra Bahadur

Notes toward a prehistory

Caught between binaries, barred by anti-Asian exclusion laws, did some West Indians of Indian origin claim Blackness in early 20th-century America?

Guyana’s political tragedy

Guyana is in a most profound crisis. This crisis has been in the making for over 50 years – ever since the declaration of independence that came on the heels of the collapse of a multiracial anticolonial movement, the intervention of the joined imperialist forces of the UK and US and the convulsive coastal racial disturbances of the 1960s that delivered almost unshakeable constituencies of African and Indian Guyanese to the two major political parties in Guyana.

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