Circuits of Black Power: Global Networks of Caribbean Activism (Caribbean Crossroads: Race, Identity, and Freedom Struggles)

Exploring how Caribbean Black Power ideas and movements circulated across islands and continents This volume brings together established and emerging scholars to highlight the circuits of solidarity that linked Black Power activism in the Caribbean to various struggles in the diaspora and beyond.Contributors trace how people and ideas moved across islands and continents, establishing the Caribbean and its activists as central to the story of global Black Power. Chapters in this collection discuss topics including the 1968 Congress of Black Writers in Montreal, the Walter Rodney demonstrations in Jamaica, and the activism of Roosevelt Douglas.They cover Caribbean and Black British radical presses, the international campaign in support of Desmond Trotter in Dominica, anti-monarchy movements in Barbados and St.Vincent, the development of tax havens in the Caymans as a response to Black Power, and Puerto Rican radical traditions.Throughout, the volume underlines how Black Power was suppres