Caribbean black populations first recognized themselves as black in the 1970s.
Evidence
It happened in Jamaica in the 1970s. In the 1970s, for the first time, black people recognized themselves as black. It was the most profound cultural revolution in the Caribbean, much greater than any political revolution they have ever had. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 235
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Pins the specific historical moment when the category ‘black’ migrates to the Caribbean — usable as a dated instance of category formation for the toolkit.
Related
- Jamaica’s 1970s black self-recognition outstripped any political revolution (similarity 0.87)
- Caribbean questions returned to Hall through Britain’s migrant black community (similarity 0.82)
- A color-based white-black polarity replaced the Europe-Africa poles in Caribbean racial mapping. (similarity 0.81)
- Rediscovering African cultural roots produced the Caribbean’s only successful revolution (similarity 0.80)
- Cultural Studies was born from the diasporic black subject’s self-discovery (similarity 0.80)
- The Caribbean as a mother-diaspora rediasporized itself into Britain forming a second-generation diaspora. (similarity 0.78)