Quito Swan Black Power In Bermuda

Dr. Swan grounds his analysis in the historical context for rights that was pursued by blacks in Bermuda before this period and he demonstrates the interconnectedness between these local political movements and the larger, global, anti-colonialism of the period.

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 Island's black power movement and the impact it has had is the focus of a book by Bermudian author Quito Swan. The book 'Black Power in Bermuda the Struggle for Decolonisation', examines how

QUITO SWAN is an Assistant Professor of History at Howard University, USA. quotBlack Power and Decolonization both have been profoundly pivotal movements but it is only with the publication of this marvelous and riveting book that these two potent trends have been linked so effectively.

This book examines the impact of Black Power on the British colony of Bermuda, where the 1972-73 assassinations of its British Police Commissioner and Governor reflected the Movement's denouncement of British imperialism and the island's racist and oligarchic society.

Swan grounds his analysis in the historical context for rights that was pursued by blacks in Bermuda before this period and he demonstrates the interconnectedness between these local political movements and the larger, global, anti-colonialism of the period.

Quito Swan Quito Swan is Professor of African diaspora history at Howard University. His research and teaching interests include black internationalism and 20th-century black social movements. He is the author of Black Power in Bermuda The Struggle for Decolonization Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

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.

A public facing scholar of Black internationalism and the African Diaspora, he has single authored three books Pasifika Black Oceania, Anti-Colonialism and the African World New York University Press, 2022, Pauulu's Diaspora Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice University Press of Florida, 2020 and Black Power in Bermuda

A transnational, pan-African youth movement, Black Power in Bermuda sought freedom for Blacks from the islands 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