“A Greater Truth than Any Other Truth You Know”: A Conversation with Professor Sylvia Wynter on Origin Stories

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Notes

1 The pieza “was a man of twenty-five years, approximately, in good health, calculated to give a certain amount of physical labor value against which all others could be measured,” see Sylvia Wynter, “Beyond the Categories of the Master Conception: The Counterdoctrine of the Jamesian Poiesis,” in C.L.R. James’s Caribbean (Duke UP, 1992), 81.

2 Asmarom Legesse, Gada: Three Approaches to the Study of an African Society (New York: The Free Press, 1973).

3 David Bradley, “Black and American, 1982,” Esquire, May 1982.