Black Power in the Caribbean Context

Abstract

strong class system, a general absence of industrial development, and above all, the presence of majority black populations mark the West Indies by contrast with the United States. Notwithstanding obvious resemblances, borrowings, and interchanges, racial subjugation, accommodation, and protest in the two realms reflect different types of oppression, different degrees of access to goals, and different divisions of race and color. The paradoxes of Caribbean racial conflict are soon apparent. More than a dozen major territories, formerly British, French, and Dutch colonies, are now independent, autonomous, or otherwise presumed equal and governed by elected representatives under universal adult suffrage. Ninety-five percent of their population is nonwhite; black or brown men head their governments and occupy

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