CARIBBEAN BLACK POWER From Slogan to Practical Politics
| Autor: | Bert J. Thomas |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
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Cultural Studies
050402 sociology Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050301 education Gender studies Independence Politics 0504 sociology State (polity) Political system Anthropology Black Power Slogan Political science Political economy Ideology 0503 education Communism media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Black Studies. 22:392-410 |
| ISSN: | 1552-4566 0021-9347 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/002193479202200305 |
| Popis: | This article assesses the evolution of Caribbean Black Power from its crudest form of sloganeering to its transformation as a weapon in the political process. The analysis begins with a brief assessment of New Worldism (Emanuel, 1983) through Black Power to the participation of former Black Power advocates in the very politics that they once debunked. First, it will be shown that the advocates of the 1 960s were the successors to the legacies of Marcus Garvey, C.L.R. James, Eric Williams, Jose Marti, Juan Bosch, Munoz Marin, and Aime Cesaire, who, a few decades earlier, had made a similar call for Caribbean empowerment. Second, the peculiar configuration of the Caribbean dictated a compelling search for an appropriate ideology to properly articulate the demands of the multiracial society. Caribbean Black Power of the 1960s was influenced by the civil rights movement in the U.S. Accepting that connection created peculiar problems. Newspapers, politicians, and business elements were vociferous in their condemnation of advocates as agents of international communism and as fraudulent mimic men (Jamaica Gleaner, 1968). Additionally, the establishment argued that if Black Power meant Caribbeanizing the institutions that support the state, the advocates had no case since locals had since replaced the expatriates in all key positions. And further, since political independence had been won, the society was well on its way to making the average citizen participate fully in the decision-making process. Criticisms aside, how did Black Power influence the societal arrangement? What was its impact on the political system? And since |
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