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Suggests that the family plays a role in the production of gendered and racialized differences in the Caribbean. Author focuses especially on Guyana, and the differences between Afro- and Indo-Guyanese. First, she revisits earlier scholarly works on the Caribbean family, limited to domesticity and feminist responses. She stresses that representations of the Caribbean family serve(d) the imperatives of governance, and the social stratification, from colonial times to the present. She indicates how the Indo-Caribbean women as submissive housewives thus became opposed to the image of the Afro-Caribbean women as working matriarchs. She further discusses the historic development of the family and women's role therein among Indians in Guyana since indentureship, highlighting the strong influence of colonial manipulation.

This essay offers a modest attempt to read Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972) alongside the political tragedy that was unfolding in 1960s Guyana, which Rodney was thinking and writing about before and during his Dar es Salaam years. The authors suggest that this historical conjuncture and such a relational reading—in contrast to one that considers Rodney's Caribbean, African, and Guyanese years separately or with little attention to the dynamic overlap of context—provide important insights into Rodney's radical historical praxis as a model for transnational liberation.

Racial tensions and predatory extractive policies, ingrained since the colonial era, have intensified as a major new oil discovery raises the stakes of political combat.