Black Power in Bermuda

The Struggle for Decolonization
2009
ISBN: 978-0-230-10958-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 337 g

Reihe: Contemporary Black History

This book examines the impact of Black Power on the British colony of Bermuda, where the 1972-73 assassinations of its British Police Commissioner and Governor reflected the Movement's denouncement of British imperialism and the island's racist and oligarchic society.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Swan, Q.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Truth is An Offense: Black Power in a British Colony Negroes Dressed in Insolence: Boycotts, Black Muslims and Racial Uprisings (1959-1968) Another Unknown Soldier: Pauulu Kamarakafego A Bermuda Triangle of Imperialism Blueprint for Freedom: The 1969 Black Power Conference Wake the Town and Tell the People: The Black Beret Cadre Emerges The Empire Strikes Back: The Government's War Against the Berets We Don't Need No Water: The Cadre Burns the Union Jack Robin Hood Was Black in My Hood: 'Buck' Burrows and the Assassinations (1972-1977) Conclusion: Babylon Gave Them a Ride: Blackness in Contemporary Bermuda

Über Autor(innen)

QUITO SWANis an Assistant Professor of History at Howard University, USA.