Black Power in the Caribbean
Political and social movements in the Caribbean / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Black Power in the Caribbean refers to political and social movements in the Caribbean region from the mid-1960s to mid-1970s that focused on overturning the existing racist power structure. Guyanese academic Walter Rodney famously defined the movement as follows: "Black Power in the West Indies means three closely related things":
- the break with imperialism which is historically white racist
- the assumption of power by the black masses in the islands
- the cultural reconstruction of the society in the image of the blacks[1]