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.

Autorentext
QUITO SWAN ****is an Assistant Professor of History at Howard University, USA.

Inhalt
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 Kamarakafego 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