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Title: An In-depth Story of the Black Power Movement in Guyana
Review: This deep history of the Black Power movement in Guyana asks us to consider how labor movements of people of color in the early 1970s informed a rethinking of Black self-determination in the face of the reorganization of governments toward ethnic pluralism under capitalism and empire. This study is not merely about Guyana and the Caribbean but mirrors developments in Africa and among African Americans as well. Matthew Quest's introductory essay places Eusi Kwayana in conversation with the thought of the Pan African CLR James. But perhaps Kwayana should be seen as also a kindred spirit to James Boggs, the Detroit based African American autoworker, who examined racism in relation to the class struggle and critique Black capitalism as a myth and irrational basis of Black freedom in the same era.
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