Black Power in the Caribbean

Contents

Contents Introduction: New Perspectives on Black Power in the Caribbean 1 Kate Quinn 1. Black Power in Caribbean Context 25 Kate Quinn PART I. BLACK POWER IN THE POSTINDEPENDENCE ANGLOPHONE CARIBBEAN 2. Jamaican Black Power in the 1960s 53 Rupert Lewis 3. The Abeng Newspaper and the Radical Politics of Postcolonial Blackness 76 Anthony Bogues 4. The February Revolution (1970) as a Catalyst for Change in Trinidad and Tobago 97 Brinsley Samaroo 5. Secondary Decolonization: The Black Power Moment in Barbados, c. 1970 117 Richard Drayton 6. “Sitting on a Volcano”: Black Power in Burnham’s Guyana 136 Kate Quinn 7. An Organic Activist: Eusi Kwayana, Guyana, and Global Pan-Africanism 159 Nigel Westmaas PART II. BLACK POWER IN COLONIAL CONTEXTS 8. Black Power in the Political Thought of Antigua and Barbuda 181 Paget Henry 9. I & I Shot the Sheriff: Black Power and Decolonization in Bermuda, 1968–1977 197 Quito Swan 10. Youth Responses to Discriminatory Practices: The Free Beach Movement, 1970–1975 219 Derick Hendricks 11. Black Power, Popular Revolt, and Decolonization in the Dutch Caribbean 239 Gert Oostindie Conclusion: Black Power Forty Years On—An Introspection 261 Brian Meeks List of Contributors 275 Index 277 ...