Black power in Bermuda : the struggle for decolonization
Quito Swan (Author)
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
Biography
1 online resource (xxii, 240 pages) : illustrations, maps
9780230102187, 9780230619067, 9780230109582, 0230102182, 0230619061, 0230109586
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Introduction: the truth is an offense : Black power in a British colony
Negroes dressed in insolence : boycotts, Black Muslims, and racial uprisings
Another unknown soldier : Pauulu
A Bermuda Triangle of imperialism
Blueprint for freedom : Bermuda's Black Power Conference of 1969
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 : "Erskine" Buck Burrows and the assassinations (1972-1977)
Conclusion: Babylon give them a ride : Blackness in contemporary Bermuda