Guyana Diaries: Women's Lives Across Difference
Guyana Diaries narrates the life histories of members of the Red Thread Development Corporation, a group of women activists in the Caribbean. Kimberly Nettles, an African American researcher, explores the impact of their work on these women’s lives and, in the process, discovers differences of class and nation that overshadow the gender and race she shares with her subjects. Blending feminist ethnography, critical autobiography, and literary narratives, Nettles examines both the collective...
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The author, an African American researcher, explores the impact of work, family, politics, and local culture on the lives of members of a women's work collective in the Caribbean and, in the process, discovers how differences in class and nation can overshadow the gender and race she shares with her subjects.
Preface 9Introductions 15Histories 17Critical Incidents: Representing Others, Representing Self 37The Guyana Diaries 69Shifting Ground 71Women's Work 99Woman Out of Place 129Meet Us Where We Are 143"By the Grace of God, We Are Making Out" 177"We All ... We Is Women Together" 203A Daughter Comes Home ... to Self 231Leaving Guyana 259Epilogue 267Notes 279References 297Index 309About the Author 315
