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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818928203321

Titolo

Black power in the Caribbean / / edited by Kate Quinn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville : , : University Press of Florida, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-8130-4669-6

0-8130-4861-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

QuinnKate <1975->

Disciplina

305.896/0729

Soggetti

Black power - West Indies - History

Black people - West Indies - History

West Indies Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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