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His innovative application of the method of political economy was a prime contributor to shifting the paradigm for rendition of the continent’s past as well as for visualizing its possible trajectory. Because it stridently took the traditional historians of Africa and the prevailing neo-colonial order to task, it was also vociferously criticized by the defenders of the status quo.\u003cbr\u003e\nIn these neoliberal times, its visibility has waned. Mainstream scholars and pundits from and outside of Africa proclaim that it is no longer a relevant work for Africa. In Walter Rodney: An Enduring Legacy, Karim Hirji makes a systematic case that, on the contrary, Rodney’s seminal work retains its singular value for understanding where Africa has come from, where it is going, and charting a path towards genuine development for the people of Africa.\u003cbr\u003e\nHirji considers Rodney in his unitary persona as a historian, theoretician and activist. He begins by outlining the publication history and contents of HEUA, and noting the comments it has drawn from varied quarters. This is followed by a depiction of the global context within which it saw the light of the day and the flowering of progressive thought and vision in those vibrant times. The retrogressive reversal, in thought and social reality, that has transpired since then is summed up next. An assessment of how HEUA has weathered this storm is also provided.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe next chapter presents a brief portrait of Rodney as a revolutionary, with the focus on his seven years at the University of Dar es Salaam. This is followed by an overview of the methodological framework utilized in HEUA.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese five chapters lay the foundation for the main substantive part of Hirji’s book. This part begins with a detailed evaluation of the criticisms that have been levelled at HEUA. Subsequently, by a review of eight textbooks of general African history in common use today is provided. The aim here is to assess the persistence, if any, of ideas of the type promoted by Rodney in such books and identify the manner in which HEUA is directly depicted therein. Do these books give an adequate and fair depiction of Rodney to modern day students?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe penultimate chapter argues for the continued relevance of Rodney and his seminal text for Africa (and the world) in this anti-people, pro-capital, pro-imperial neoliberal era. Hirji concludes with a lively account of his own interactions over six years with Walter Rodney. With the focus on the issue of building socialism in Tanzania, a key dimension in the evolution of Rodney’s thinking is described in a critical spirit. The fundamental question addressed is, in our often dark, demoralizing political environment, what do Rodney and his life have to teach us on the matter of navigating between hope and struggle?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe conclusion emerging from this book is that in the first place most of the criticisms of the content, style and practical value of HEUA lack merit. The representation of Rodney in mainstream books is as well replete with distortions, unfair selectivity and political bias.\u003cbr\u003e\nDespite these misrepresentations, Rodney and his ideas retain their signal value for understanding African history, for engaging with its present day conditions, and for projecting distinctive future scenarios for the continent. Hirji’s succinct work is a consistent, coherent defence of an intellectual giant, an astute historian and a compassionate revolutionary who lived and died for humanity. It is an essential read for anyone with an interest in African history, and the fate of Africa and the regions that are historically related to it.\u003cbr\u003e\nWalter Rodney: An Enduring Legacy\u003cbr\u003e\nKarim F Hirji\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCONTENTS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\n1. The Book\u003cbr\u003e\n2. The Global Context\u003cbr\u003e\n3. A Grand Reversal\u003cbr\u003e\n4. Rodney, the Revolutionary\u003cbr\u003e\n5. Rodney and Historiography\u003cbr\u003e\n6. Criticisms of the Book\u003cbr\u003e\n7. Rodney in the Classroom\u003cbr\u003e\n8. Contemporary Relevance\u003cbr\u003e\n9. 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Pediatric emergency physician Samir Shaheen-Hussain’s captivating narrative of this successful campaign, which garnered unprecedented public attention and media coverage, seeks to answer lingering questions about why such a cruel practice remained in place for so long. By focusing on the structural drivers of the social determinants of health, this book serves as an indispensable case study of contemporary medical colonialism in Quebec, and demonstrates that inequalities in health care follow the fault lines of societal injustices. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFighting for A Hand to Hold\u003c\/em\u003e exposes the Canadian medical establishment’s role in the displacement, colonization, and genocide of Indigenous Peoples — colonial genocide. Through meticulously gathered government documentation, historical scholarship, media reports, public inquiries, and personal testimonies, Shaheen-Hussain connects the draconian medevac practice with often-disregarded crimes committed against and medical violence inflicted upon Indigenous children across the country for more than a century and a half: fomented smallpox epidemics and avoidable tuberculosis deaths; experiments and abuse in residential schools, Indian Hospitals, reserves, and communities; forced sterilization; child abduction and disappearances.  This devastating history and ongoing medical colonialism prevent Indigenous communities from attaining internationally recognized measures of health and social well-being because of a pervasive culture of systemic anti-Indigenous racism that persists in the Canadian public health care system— and in capitalist settler society at large. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShaheen-Hussain’s unique perspective combines his experience as a frontline pediatrician with his long-standing involvement in anti-authoritarian social justice movements. Sparked by the indifference and callousness of those in power, this book draws on the innovative work of Indigenous scholars and activists to conclude that a broader decolonization struggle calling for reparations, restitution (including land reclamation), and self-determination for Indigenous Peoples is critical to achieve reconciliation in Canada. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFighting for A Hand to Hold\u003c\/em\u003e is part of McGill-Queen's University Press's Indigenous and Northern Series. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAll author royalties from sales of this book will be redirected to groups and initiatives that support Indigenous self-determination, and that are concerned with the health and wellness of Indigenous children and youth: Eagle Spirit Science Futures camp, First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, Groundswell Community Justice Trust Fund, Minnie’s Hope Social Pediatric Centre, Mohawk Language Custodian Association, and Native Women's Shelter of Montreal. Proceeds from hand sales at public events will go to Indigenous land-defence initiatives and resurgence movements. Lux Éditeur will publish a French translation of the book in early 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor more infomation about this title see \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/fightingforahandtohold.ca\"\u003efightingforahandtohold.ca\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"The memories of the Inuit children I attended as a young interpreter at the Montreal Children's Hospital came flooding back to me, the sad face of a child looking up at me. Nurses informed me that he was not speaking, but I immediately recognized the fear in his face, in his eyes. As soon as I spoke to him in Inuktitut, he looked at me in disbelief, but in the next moment his tears began to roll and I could only sound out the Inuit sound of love, 'mmph', and to tell him it will be alright, and that his mom or a relative would be arriving soon. I felt for that child, and as he began to relax and open up, we had a lovely conversation in Inuktitut. He did not feel so alone in this strange place he had just been deposited on, as if he was cargo. To this day, I still feel for him. Throughout all these years, we all have been made to believe that this is how things should work. It was one of those things we stayed quiet about for decades. But no longer. We Inuit, we are a people. We love our children. \u003cem\u003eFighting For A Hand To Hold -- Confronting Medical Colonialism Against Indigenous Children in Canada\u003c\/em\u003e, helps us understand the issues of colonization in the medical system that has vexed us as Indigenous peoples. Today, we Inuit are working to bring our health back to our communities.  Healthy communities and families mean self-governance to us and the de-colonization process will happen.\" \u003cstrong\u003eLisa Qiluqqi Koperqualuk, M.A., vice-president international affairs, Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eFighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada\u003c\/em\u003e, Samir Shaheen-Hussain addresses different aspects of the healthcare system offered to indigenous people, always stressing that this is a field strongly marked by colonial power relations, historically perpetuated by the Canadian state. Starting from a harsh critique of the current health policies dispensed to indigenous children and their families, the book takes us to a profound reflection on how medical colonialism and systemic racism perpetuate themselves, and how movements for sovereignty and decolonial thinking are key pieces in changing diverse paradigms. The book shows that important changes in the health system offered to indigenous peoples have not yet been executed, which prevents an effective transformation of the healthcare system. This mismatch between the discourses and the reality is in tune with the maintenance of the colonial posture in relation to indigenous peoples is still in force in the Canadian State. While grounded firmly in the academic literature, the author uses language that will be easily accessible to a general audience and will incite the reader to engage in a profound examination of Canada's history and its relationship with Indigenous peoples. A moving and necessary book. A must-read for all who are interested in one of the most macabre faces of medical colonialism: its genocidal and eugenicist face.\" \u003cstrong\u003eQuebec Native Women (Femmes Autochtones du Québec)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Heartbroken. This is how I feel after reading \u003cem\u003eFighting for a Hand to Hold\u003c\/em\u003e. It hurts to read about children suffering. Shaheen-Hussain's book does not relieve that pain. Yet his words hold the potential to help us create broader healing, if his insights are heeded.\" \u003cstrong\u003eJohn Borrows, Canada Research Chair in indigenous Law, University of \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/victoria-law\" title=\"Victoria Law\"\u003eVictoria Law\u003c\/a\u003e School\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A sick child is transported by plane to a hospital 1000 kilometres away \u003cem\u003ealone and without a parent to accompany the child\u003c\/em\u003e, a state practice without pity. No parent can read this and not feel a sharp pain yet so many managed to defend the practice even when the mothers of the children who died alone en route publicly grieved that they were never able to give comfort to their dying children. This is the racial terror that was aimed at Indigenous peoples in the province of Quebec. This book tells the story of the fight to change what so clearly springs from the annihilative impulse at the heart of settler colonialism. What can we learn from this book about the struggle to abolish the practice? This practice was no mere discriminatory residue of an old colonial system long gone. Instead it is a telling sign of an ongoing settler colonialism, one deeply structured to \"disappear Indians\"  and to declare Indigenous lives as worth less than white ones. Samir Shaheen-Hussain's clear-eyed account reminds us that we can change but not until we recognize this ugly truth.\" \u003cstrong\u003eSherene H. Razack, Distinguished Professor and Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Gender Studies, UCLA. Author of \u003cem\u003eDying From Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eFighting For A Hand To Hold - Confronting Medical Colonialism Against Indigenous Children in Canada\u003c\/em\u003e physician Samir Shaheen-Hussain exposes the social, cultural, and historical structures that allow medical colonialism to hide in plain sight as it harms generations of Indigenous children and their families.  It is an unflinching analysis that should be required reading in every medical school in the country.\" \u003cstrong\u003eMaureen Lux. Professor and Chair, History Department, Brock University; author of \u003cem\u003eSeparate Beds: A History of Indian Hospitals in Canada, 1920s-1980s\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Samir Shaheen-Hussain's \u003cem\u003eFighting For A Hand to Hold\u003c\/em\u003e is a searing indictment of medical colonialism in Canada. This must-read book shatters the myth of universal and equitable healthcare as a pillar of this country's benevolent social democracy and, instead, forcefully exposes the active involvement of the medical system in upholding historic and ongoing settler-colonial power.\" \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/harsha-walia\" title=\"Harsha Walia\"\u003eHarsha Walia\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eUndoing Border Imperialism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eFighting for a Hand to Hold\u003c\/em\u003e denounces with ferocity the utterly inhuman, decades-long practice of separating children from their families during emergency medevacs in northern and remote regions of Quebec. In a precise, compelling, and well-documented narrative, Samir Shaheen-Hussain challenges our collective understanding of systemic racism and social determinants of health applied to Indigenous communities most dependent on medevac airlifts and most impacted by the non-accompaniment rule. An eye-opening, tough, and essential book.\" \u003cstrong\u003eDr Joanne Liu, pediatric emergency physician and former international president of Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A necessary and sobering read. Shaheen-Hussain's text masterfully exposes the ways in which the logics of settler colonialism and genocide are structurally embedded into Canada's healthcare system. It illuminates how egregious racial violence takes place -- \u003cem\u003ein plain sight \u003c\/em\u003e-- under the direction of a publicly-funded institution that is broadly understood, to most Canadians, as a social good. The book, meticulously researched, firmly centers Canada's medical system as a crucial site for ongoing anti-colonial struggle.\" \u003cstrong\u003eRobyn Maynard, author of \u003cem\u003ePolicing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from slavery to the present\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\"An astonishing book. It begins with the anguished story of Cree and Inuit children from northern Quebec travelling alone by air, sick or injured, panic-stricken, to hospitals in the south, and becomes one of the most moving, ferocious, historically comprehensive narratives of medical colonialism and indigenous cultural genocide that I have ever read. It's a stunning piece of work. When I finally put it down, I was gasping ... an absolute tour-de-force.\" \u003cstrong\u003eStephen Lewis, Co-director \u003cem\u003eAIDS-Free World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\"Its clever framing, detailed research and frequent critical gems put \u003cem\u003eFighting for a Hand to Hold\u003c\/em\u003e in the very good company of a small group of stellar books and articles about Indigenous health issues, all of them manifestos for change. 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