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Black Power in the Caribbean

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BLACK POWER
IN THE CARIBBEAN
Edited by Kate Quinn

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF FLORIDA

Gainesville / Tallahassee / Tampa / Boca Raton
Pensacola / Orlando / Miami / Jacksonville / Ft. Myers / Sarasota

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Black power in the Caribbean / edited by Kate Quinn.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary: The first collection to explore the Black Power movement in its various
manifestations across the Caribbean.
ISBN 978-0-8130-4909-0 (alk. paper)
1. Black powerWest IndiesHistory. 2. West IndiesRace relations. 3. Blacks
West IndiesHistory. I. Quinn, Kate, 1975, editor.
F1629.B55B55 2014
305.8960729dc23 2013029230
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University of South Florida, and University of West Florida.
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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 Burnhams 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
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