The Political Economy of Race in the Caribbean and the Americas: A Preliminary Interpretation

Girvan, Norman, The Political Economy of Race in the Caribbean and the Americas: A preliminary Interpretation, Jamaica: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, 1975.

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Norman P. Girvan, (1941 – 9 April 2014), was a Jamaican professor, Secretary General of the Association of Caribbean States between 2000 and 2004. He was born in Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica.[1] He died aged 72 in Cuba on 9 April 2014,[2] after having suffered a fall in Dominica in early 2014.[3] He had been a member of the United Nations Committee on Development Policy since 2009, and in 2010 was appointed the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's personal representative on the Guyana-Venezuela border controversy.[4][5] He was Professor Emeritus of the University of the West Indies (UWI).