Black Power in the Caribbean

Black Power in the Caribbean refers to political and social movements in the Caribbean region from the mid-1960s to mid-1970s that focused on overturning the existing racist power structure. Guyanese academic Walter Rodney famously defined the movement as follows: "Black Power in the West Indies means three closely related things":

1. the break with imperialism which is historically white racist
2. the assumption of power by the black masses in the islands
3. the cultural reconstruction of the society in the image of the blacks