Finding Myself: Essays on Race, Politics & Culture

by Clem Seecharan

Clem Seecharan brings together two visions of Caribbean history—one public, the other personal—in his discussions of race, culture, and politics in Guyana and the Caribbean. Shaped over a period of 20 years, this is an elegantly written, scholarly, but highly accessible collection of essays that are essentially a map of how one of the Caribbean’s most distinguished historians has sought to discover himself through practice of his craft. It covers new ground in Indo-Caribbean history primarily, but it also explores innovatively aspects of the intellectual legacy of four eminent Caribbean writers and Guyanese poet Martin Carter, Guyanese historian Walter Rodney, Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul, and C.L.R. James, author of one of the great books of the 20th century, Beyond a Boundary.

336 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2015