Black power in Bermuda: the struggle for decolonization / Quito Swan.
2009
F1640.B55 S93 2009
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Black power in Bermuda: the struggle for decolonization / Quito Swan.
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9780230619067 (hbk.)
9780230102187 (e-book)
9780230102187 (e-book)
Publication Details
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxii, 240 pages ) : illustrations, maps.
Call Number
F1640.B55 S93 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
323.097299
Summary
"A transnational, Pan-African youth movement, Black power in Bermuda sought freedom for Blacks from the island's White oligarchy and independence from British colonialism. It was spearheaded by activists such as Pauulu Kamarakafego and the Black Beret Cadre. The Cadre maintained relationships with revolutionary organizations across the African diaspora, such as the Black Panthers. Emerging in the late 1960s, the movement witnessed the assassinations of Bermuda's British chief of police and governor (1972-1973). Swan carefully details the island's colonial government's attempts to destroy the movement through military tactics, extensive propaganda, and the implementation of token social concessions"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contemporary Black history.
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Table of Contents
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
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.
Negroes dressed in insolence : boycotts, Black Muslims, and racial uprisings (1959-1968)
Another unknown soldier : Pauulu
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.