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In the spring of 1970, a new set of icons adorned the brightly colored carnival procession that snaked through the streets of Port-of-Spain, the capital city of Trinidad and Tobago. Massive portraits of Malcolm X, Eldridge Cleaver, and Stokely Carmichael proclaimed solidarity with what had become known throughout much of the world as “Black Power.” What did calls for “Black Power” mean on an island governed by black elected officials? In Trinidad and elsewhere in the Caribbean power was, to some degree, already black.
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Slate, N. (2012). Introduction: The Borders of Black Power. In: Slate, N. (eds) Black Power beyond Borders. Contemporary Black History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137295064_1
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