"In anthropology, edges are spaces of power and danger, between what is and what could be. As Tressie McMillan Cottom stated on a recent podcast, "One of the most powerful analytical positions a person can be in is to be in something and not of it. You are both inside and outside at the same time...to see it, not be of it-so you're not beholden to upholding it.""
"I came across an article he penned in 1925 called " Worlds of Color " in which he revisited his claim that "the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line" and added that the present "Problem of Problems" was "Labor." I was struck by his nuanced understanding of racial dynamics and global economics. This was written 100 years ago, yet it seems eerily relevant to our world today."
Edges function as sites of power and danger where possibility and constraint meet. Being simultaneously inside and outside a system enables clear vision without obligation to uphold it. Collective self-determination, community ownership, and democratized capital are presented as mechanisms to restore depleted economic and ecological soils in emerging economies. Fragments of lived experience are offered as glimpses of a broader transformation vision grounded in solidarity economy principles. A visit to Great Barrington, MA, foregrounds W.E.B. Du Bois's insight that racial divisions and labor struggles are central to modern economic crises, demonstrating historical prescience about mass unemployment and policy responses.
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