Black Power in the Caribbean

Kate Quinn

• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9780813048611
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean History
• Index: History

Black Power studies have been dominated by the North American story, but after decades of scholarly neglect, the growth of "New Black Power Studies" has revitalized the field. Central to the current agenda are a critique of the narrow domestic lens through which U.S. Black Power has been viewed and a call for greater attention to international and transnational dimensions of the movement. Black Power in the Caribbean masterfully answers this call.

This volume brings together a host of renowned scholars who offer new analyses of the Black Power demonstrations in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, as well as of the little-studied cases of Guyana, Barbados, Antigua, Bermuda, the Dutch Caribbean, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The essays in this collection highlight the unique origins and causes of Black Power mobilization in the Caribbean, its relationship to Black Power in the United States, and the local and global aspects of the movement, ultimately situating the historical roots and modern legacies of Caribbean Black Power in a wider, international context.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Introduction: New Perspectives on Black Power in the Caribbean
• 1. Black Power in Caribbean Context
• PART I. BLACK POWER IN THE POSTINDEPENDENCE ANGLOPHONE CARIBBEAN
• PART II. BLACK POWER IN COLONIAL CONTEXTS
• Conclusion: Black Power Forty Years On—An Introspection
• List of Contributors
• Index