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    1. Bermuda Looks to the East: Marcus Garvey, the UNIA, and Bermuda, 1920-1931

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Swan,Quito J. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2010 spring-summer
    Published:
    Lanham, MD: Lexington Books
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Wadabagei: A Journal of the Caribbean and Its Diaspora
    Journal Title Details:
    13(1) : 29-61
    Notes:
    Examines the impact of the Universal Negro Improvement League (UNIA) on the British colony of Bermuda where the majority black population was segregated and disenfranchised while white elites enjoyed total political and economic power. The efforts of UNIA leaders like Marcus Garvey made UNIA a global organization and strongly influenced Caribbean regional politics. Attention is given to the impact of tourism which became Bermuda's primary industry in the 1920s when blacks were evicted from their homes to make room for white resorts.

    4. Black party wins second term in Bermuda, but winning premier forced out

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Wilkinson,Bert (Author)
    Format:
    Newspaper Article
    Publication Date:
    2003-07-31
    Published:
    New York, NY
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    New York Amsterdam News
    Journal Title Details:
    p. 14
    Notes:
    Bermuda's Progressive Labor Party, supported by the island's black population, won a second term in general elections on Jul 24, 2003, but Jennifer Smith, who led the party to victory, has been ousted by a rebel Cabinet faction that claimed she was too autocratic and aloof.

    6. Celebrating Cricket: The Symbolic Construction of Caribbean Politics

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Manning,Frank E. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    August, 1981
    Published:
    Ontario: American Ethnological Society
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    American Ethnologist
    Journal Title Details:
    8(3) : 616-632
    Notes:
    Proposes that cricket symbolizes both an assertive sense of black culture and an awareness of black economic dependency on whites, a tension that is reflective of Bermudian politics