Against the Grain

This chapter offers an alternative reading of works by C. L. R. James and Walter Rodney in order to work through and beyond the limiting pre-positional structure of Caribbean historical materialism. It argues that Rodney’s work radically helps to recover the figure of the worker for liberation from both the point of black Death and Indigenous death because it rescues the category for blacks and Indigenous Peoples from its overdetermination by anti-blackness and anti-indigeneity.