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Black power in Bermuda the struggle for decolonization
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Black power in Bermuda [electronic resource] : the struggle for decolonization / Quito Swan.
ISBN
9780230619067 (hbk.)
9780230102187 (e-book)
Published
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxii, 240 p.) : ill., maps.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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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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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 03, 2023
Series
Contemporary Black history
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Partial 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.
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