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Daillen Culver's avatar

Such an important topic and so well-articulated! Just a minor note that the term “underdeveloped” was actually coined by Guyanese scholar Walter Rodney in his 1972 book ‘How Europe Underdeveloped Africa’ which attempted to raise many of the same issues you point to in this essay. Like modern use of ‘enslaved’ rather than ‘slave’, he was trying to shift the attention and indeed the culpability for poverty and oppression back onto the oppressor. But I appreciate you taking this analysis that many steps further as well as your commitment to continually learning and unlearning. Always enjoy reading these.

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Maywa M.'s avatar

Thanks so much for this thoughtful essay. The link to my piece under "What Inspired Us..." is broken - Seed magazine is no longer online - but you can access the full text from the Internet Archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120128093857/http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/in_defense_of_difference/

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