Description: "This book makes the bold claim that we must put the small, easily overlooked South American nation of Guyana on the map if we hope to understand the global threat of environmental catastrophe as well as the pernicious forms of erasure that structure Caribbean women's lives"--
Brief description: Oneka LaBennett is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Southern California. She's the author of She's Mad Real: Popular Culture and West Indian Girls in Brooklyn and co-editor of Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century.
Review Quotes: "LaBennett argues for the relevance of Guyana as a place that is, as the author says, 'everywhere and nowhere.' Wielding her pointer broom, an everyday object used by countless girls and women in Guyana in the daily work of keeping order, LaBennett sweeps the messy, layered detritus of history, politics, and experience into a remarkably personal ethnography that insistently demonstrates the myriad ways in which global traffic in culture and power can be lived and understood."-- "Elizabeth Chin, author of My Life with Things: The Consumer Diaries"