Rodney Rodney on Race in the Caribbean

The definition of race most widely used is that once you are not obviously white then you are black and excluded from power. Rodney clearly understands racial distinctions to be socially constructed in a way that is tied to power relations. He treats racialism as something born in the context of slavery in the West Indies and the American South which gradually became a worldwide phenomenon. The road to black power must begin with a revaluation of ourselves as blacks, he says.