Seeds of Solidarity : African-Indian Relations and the 1935 Labor Rebellions in British Guiana (Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora)

Burrowes, Nicole A.

Cambridge University Press（2026/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 324 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781009561365

Full Description

Seeds of Solidarity is a study of British Guiana amid a wave of Caribbean uprisings that brought modern politics to colonial spaces during the 1930s. It explores the historical power of a movement forged by people at the edges of empire during economic, political, and environmental crises. African- and Indian-Guianese youth, women, and men who worked on sugar plantations led a series of labor uprisings, despite attempts to turn these racialized communities against each other. Rather than erasing identities, their 'overlapping diasporas' signify how solidary can emerge without sameness, and how this process challenged the British Empire and reshaped Caribbean politics. This important work unites Caribbean history, African Diaspora and South Asian Diaspora studies, histories of racial capitalism and labor movements, gender studies, and the politics of colonialism and empire in the post-indenture period. It offers a model of resistance in today's era of deepening racial and economic inequality, fascism, and climate emergency.

Contents

List of tables; List of figures; List of maps; Introduction; 1. Seeds of division; 2. Overlapping diasporas in the colony; 3. 'Up to our eyes in water and mud': plantation life and the power of neighborliness; 4. 'Slavery done long time': the labor rebellions of 1935; 5. 'I thought the people had gone crazy': circuits of imperial anxiety; 6. The aftermath of the rebellions; Conclusion - seeds of solidarity; Postscript - the politics of sugar and oil; Acknowledgements; Selected bibliography; Index.