By Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak I am writing from Ghana, the old Gold Coast, one slim state away from Dahomey, famous for its woman soldiers and brass art, the area from where the largest number of people were put on the… Continue Reading
By Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak The collective project of the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought at Abolition Democracy 13/13 was on a) capital reparations, b) Black Lives Matter, and c) the global future. My interest is in the fact that… Continue Reading
By Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak There is no future for abolition if all sectors of society do not wish to abolish injustice. How can this be brought about? By way of a sustained humanities-style old-fashioned teaching program from kindergarten to the… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt “The responsibility is entirely yours. You must make your efforts to uproot caste, if not in my way, then in your way.” — R. Ambedkar, Annihilation of Caste (1936)[1] We arrive at the final session of… Continue Reading