Critical Times 8:2

This issue of Critical Times is the first of two special issues, guest-edited by Ruchi Chaturvedi and Victoria Collis-Buthelezi, that analyze racialized and caste-subjugated lives in southern and East Africa, South Asia, and the Caribbean. Contributions to the issue include a critical assessment of the global fertility industry, a literary analysis of the place of leather in Dalit writing, a discussion of the role of the Indian university in emancipatory projects, an account of anticaste Marxism in 1970s Punjab, and an essay on racial tensions in Uganda. The issue also includes an interview with the translator of Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth into isiZulu, a critical conversation on the Zuma riots in Johannesburg, and photographs from contemporary Lebanon.