Black Power in the Caribbean

List of Contributors

Contributors Anthony Bogues is Lyn Crost Professor of Social Sciences and Critical Theory and the director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University. He is also associate director of the Centre for Caribbean Thought. His books include Empire of Liberty: Power, Desire and Freedom and Black Heretics and Black Prophets: Radical Political Intellectuals. Richard Drayton is Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King’s College London. He is author of Nature’s Government: Science, Imperial Britain and the Improvement of the World, which was awarded the Morris D. Forkosch Prize by the American Historical Association in 2001. He was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for History in 2002. Derick Hendricks is lecturer in the Department of History and Geography at Morgan State University. His PhD, on Black Awareness and Social Unrest in the U.S. Virgin Islands: A Case Study of Black Nationalism, 1968–1986, was awarded by Morgan State University in 2009. Paget Henry is professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at Brown University . He is the author of many works on the Caribbean, including Shouldering Antigua and Barbuda: The Life of V. C. Bird and Caliban’s Reason: Introducing Caribbean Philosophy, which was awarded the 2003 Frantz Fanon Award for the best book in the field of Africana thought in the last five years. He is also editor of the C.L.R. James Journal. Rupert Lewis is associate director of the Centre for Caribbean Thought and professor of Political Thought in the Department of Government, University of the West Indies–Mona. He has published extensively on Caribbean political thought, including two edited volumes on Marcus Garvey and a study of Walter Rodney: Walter Rodney’s Intellectual and Political Thought. Contributors 276 Brian Meeks is director of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies and former director of the Centre for Caribbean Thought, University of the West Indies–Mona. He has published extensively on radical and revolutionary politics in the Caribbean, including Caribbean Revolutions and Revolutionary Theory: An Assessment of Cuba, Nicaragua and Grenada; Radical Caribbean: From Black Power to Abu Bakr; and Narratives of Resistance: Jamaica, Trinidad, the Caribbean. Gert Oostindie is professor of Caribbean History and director of the KITLV (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies) at the University of Leiden. He has published more than twenty books, including Paradise Overseas: The Dutch Caribbean, Colonialism and Its Transatlantic Legacies; Decolonising the Caribbean; and Postcolonial Netherlands. Kate Quinn is lecturer in Caribbean History at the Institute of the Americas, University College London. She is coeditor with Professor Paul Sutton of Politics and Power in Haiti and has also published articles on postindependence Trinidad and on revolutionary Cuba. She is Chair of the Society for Caribbean Studies. Brinsley Samaroo is senior research fellow at the University of Trinidad and Tobago. He has published extensively on the history of the Caribbean, including pioneering work on the Indian presence in the Caribbean. His edited collections include India in the Caribbean and Across the Dark Waters: Ethnicity and Indian Identity in the Caribbean. Quito Swan is associate professor of African Diaspora Studies in the Department of History at Howard University. He is the author of Black Power in Bermuda and the Struggle for Decolonization and director of the Pauulu Project, a research initiative based on the work of Pauulu Kamarakafego. Nigel Westmaas teaches in the Department of Africana Studies at Hamilton College, New York. His research and activist interests include social movements in Guyana and the Caribbean, the works of poet Martin Carter, and Marcus Garvey in British Guiana. He has published in a number of journals and newspapers, including Small Axe, where “Resisting Orthodoxy: Notes on the Origins and Ideology of the Working People’s Alliance” appeared. Westmaas is a former political activist of the Working People’s Alliance. ...