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"How far are we willing to go to get free?" Hopkinson’s new book is a meditation on imperialism, cultural imperialism, and Guyana -- the former British sugar colony in South America built on the backs of enslaved Africans, indentured East Indians, and indigenous Amerindians. She explores the lives and works and risk-taking of writer John Berger, activist-scholar Walter Rodney, visual artists Kara Walker and Berniece Persaud, poets Martin Carter and Ruel Johnson. They confront and challenge the legacy and reality of societies strangled by imperialism -- and Hopkinson examines how this shapes politics, culture, and the future.

Natalie Hopkinson is a former staff writer, editor, and culture critic at Washington Post and The Root. She is an asst professor, Howard University.