Social Sciences

"'We especially welcome applications from visible minorities': Reflections on race, gender and life at three universities" in Race, Ethnicity and Education, 18 (5), 589–610

This autoethnographic account documents and analyses university life as a racialised woman who has worked in both Canadian and American universities. The theoretical framework draws from critical perspectives on race, black feminisms and narrative and autoethnographic research methodologies. The study involves a range of data sources that provide sociohistorical and sociopolitical contexts in which to […]

Unmasking the State: Politics, Society and Economy in Guyana 1992-2015

Standard political economy and historical analyses of post-independence Guyana tend to focus on the period of authoritarian rule under the People’s National Congress party, and the introduction of an IMF-supervised economic recovery programme.

The Point is to Change the World: Selected Writings by Andaiye

Radical activist, thinker, comrade of Walter Rodney, Andaiye was one of the Caribbean's most important political voices. For the first time, her writings are published in one collection. Through essays, speeches, letters and journal entries, Andaiye's thinking on the intersections of gender, race, class and power are profoundly articulated, Caribbean histories emerge, and stories from […]

Gender, Ethnicity and Place: Women and Identity in Guyana

This book is concerned with the nature of the relationship between gender, ethnicity and poverty in the context of the external and internal dynamics of households in Guyana. Using detailed data collected from male and female respondents in three separate locations, two urban and one rural, and across two major ethnic groups, Afro-Guyanese and Indo-Guyanese, […]

"Gaiutra Bahadur's Coolie Woman: Intimacies, Proximities, Relationalities" Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 56 (7) 219-231

This essay engages a key thematic of Gaiutra Bahadur’s —racialized, gendered and sexualized violence in the making of the “coolie” woman in British Guiana. Through literary nonfiction, Bahadur offers a rigorous and imaginative methodological approach that reveals and challenges the epistemic violence of the official archive. Her analysis incisively attends to the relationships between empire, […]

"Engaging the Diasporas: An Alternative Paradigm from the Caribbean" in New Rules for Global Justice: Structural Redistribution in the Global Economy

Le participe passé facile: de la kyrielle de règles à un seul principe

Au contact des mots: corrigé

Ce livre s’adresse à des étudiants qui cherchent à enrichir leur vocabulaire et à se renseigner sur la nature du vocabulaire français, qu’ils aient appris le français comme langue seconde ou que, francophones, ils aient fréquenté un collège anglophone.

Au contact des mots, Montréal, Les Éditions Linguatech

"Collecte et interprétation des données d'apprentissage" in Actes du colloque international sur l'approbation du français et construction de connaissances via la scolarisation en milieu diglossique