Black power in the Caribbean / edited by Kate Quinn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Quinn, Kate, 1975-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black power--West Indies--History.

Black power.

Black people--West Indies--History.

Black people.

West Indies--Race relations.

West Indies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The first collection to explore the Black Power movement in its various manifestations across the Caribbean.

Contents:

Introduction: New perspectives on black power in the Caribbean / Kate Quinn

Part I: Black power in Caribbean context / Kate Quinn

Black power in the postindependence Anglophone Caribbean

Jamaican black power in the 1960s / Rupert Lewis

The Abeng newspaper and the radical politics of postcolonial blackness / Anthony Bogues

The February Revolution as a catalyst for change in Trinidad and Tobago / Brinsley Samaroor

Secondary decolonization: the black power moment in Barbados, c. 1970 / Richard Drayton

"Sitting on a volcano": black power in Burnham's Guyana / Kate Quinn

An organic activist: Eusi Kwayana, Guyana, and global Pan-Africanism / Nigel Westmaas

Part II: Black power in colonial contexts

Black power in the political thought of Antigua and Barbuda / Paget Henry

I & I shot the sheriff: black power and decolonization in Bermuda (1968-1977) / Quito Swan

Youth responses to discriminatory practices: the free beach movement, 1970-1975 / Derick Hendricks

Black power, popular revolt, and decolonization in the Dutch Caribbean / Gert Oostindie

Conclusion: Black power forty years on: an introspection / Brian Meeks.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8130-4669-6

0-8130-4861-3

OCLC:

870646730