Race and Resistance: Understanding Bermuda Today

Between 2015 and 2019, Bermudian academics and activists presented their groundbreaking work on race and resistance in the Bermuda context across four events hosted by the University of Oxford.

In 2018, the Bermuda College and the Human Rights Commission of Bermuda, in partnership with The Oxford Centre for Global History and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) Race and Resistance Network, hosted a one-day symposium entitled 'Race and Resistance: Understanding Bermuda Today'. The symposium aimed to provide an accessible exploration of Bermuda's history of enslavement and racial segregation and the intersection of race, resistance and history in the contemporary Bermuda landscape. Three panels of academics and activists discussed the role of resistance in Bermuda's experiences, from founding and emancipation, to racial desegregation, to current issues and events. A final plenary session focused on ways to address the legacy of racism, understand patterns of resistance in Bermuda today and guide a path toward transformation. The Student Centre at the Bermuda College was also a lively 'Marketplace' for the day, showcasing local literature, artists and community groups. Special thanks to co-facilitators: Phyllis Curtis-Tweed, Sara Clifford and Alexa Virdi.

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Episode	Description	People	Date
Welcome and opening address by event hosts	Opening address from Kristin White and readings from the event hosts.	Kristin White, Wale Adebanwi, Stephen Tuck, Rajai Denbrook, Lisa Reed, Phyllis Curtis-Tweed	25 January, 2022
Colonialism, Enslavement and Resistance	1612 - 1834 Founding of Bermuda and the Fight for Freedom, talk 1	Mike Jarvis	25 January, 2022
A Tale of Two Women: Sally Bassett, Mary Prince and the True Story of Slavery in Bermuda	Second talk on the 1612 - 1834 Founding of Bermuda and the Fight for Freedom panel, with ajala omodele.	Ajala Omodele	25 January, 2022
The Humanitarian Revolution and the Struggle for Human Rights	1834 – 1959/71 Struggle for Desegregation: Post-emancipation, identity and immigration, talk 1	Clarence Maxwell	25 January, 2022
A Consequence of Abolition: Racialised Policies	.1612 - 1834 Founding of Bermuda and the Fight for Freedom, talk 4	Walton Brown	25 January, 2022
Black Power and Bermuda	1834 – 1959/71 Struggle for Desegregation: Post-emancipation, identity and immigration, talk 1	Quito Swan	25 January, 2022
Narratives of Resistance	1834 – 1959/71 Struggle for Desegregation: Post-emancipation, identity and immigration, talk 2	Kristy Warren	25 January, 2022
A Case Study in Black Internationalism: Bermuda as part of the Diasporic Civil Rights Struggle	1834 – 1959/71 Struggle for Desegregation: Post-emancipation, identity and immigration, talk 3	Theodore Francis	24 January, 2022
The Demographics of Bermuda: From the Deportation of Free Black People to Racist White Immigration Policies	1834 – 1959/71 Struggle for Desegregation: Post-emancipation, identity and immigration, talk 4	Lynne Winfield	24 January, 2022
The Portuguese Community In Bermuda	1834 – 1959/71 Struggle for Desegregation: Post-emancipation, identity and immigration, talk 5	Rui Desa	24 January, 2022
Race, Resistance and Fiction	1959 – 2018 The Pursuit of Equality and Justice: Past and Present, talk 1	Nicholas Tweed	24 January, 2022
Muslim Persistence in Establishing Islamic Community Life in Bermuda (1960 – present)	1959 – 2018 The Pursuit of Equality and Justice: Past and Present, talk 2.	Radell Tankard	24 January, 2022
A Life of Resistance	1959 – 2018 The Pursuit of Equality and Justice: Past and Present, talk 3	Linda Bogle-Meinzer	24 January, 2022
Challenging Oppressive Working Conditions: The Bermuda Industrial Union	1959 – 2018 The Pursuit of Equality and Justice: Past and Present, talk 4	Derick Burgess	24 January, 2022
Final closing	Closing comments by Dr. Phyllis Curtis Tweed.	Nicholas Tweed, Phyllis Curtis Tweed	24 January, 2022
Introduction to 'Racialisation in (post)colonial Bermuda: Past and Present'	Racialisation in (post)colonial Bermuda: Past and Present, talk 1.	Kristy Warren	24 January, 2022
They Called Us Hoodlums: Media, Desegregation and the 1959 Bermuda Theatre Boycotts’	Racialisation in (post)colonial Bermuda: Past and Present, talk 2.	Dana Selassie	24 January, 2022
Goin’ dahn de road’: Racialised dialect parody in Bermuda’	Racialisation in (post)colonial Bermuda: Past and Present, talk 3.	Rosemary Hall	24 January, 2022
‘MY NAME IS SUE’: The Mother of Mary Prince and the Racialised Abdication of Bermuda in the Authentication of Her History’	Racialisation in (post)colonial Bermuda: Past and Present, talk 4.	LeYoni Junos	18 January, 2022
Memories Lost in the Triangle: An Exploration of Bermuda’s Social Conditioning Through Racial Amnesia’	Racialisation in (post)colonial Bermuda: Past and Present, talk 5.	H. Alicia Kirby	18 January, 2022
‘Bermuda gombey (re)connections: Covering and recovering indigeneity in the Black Atlantic’	Racialisation in (post)colonial Bermuda: Past and Present, talk 6.	Sydney Hutchinson	18 January, 2022
400 years of Courts in Bermuda, 1616-2016, Towards a Vision of Non-Racial Justice	Race, Law and History, talk 1	Ian Kawaley, Chen Foley	18 January, 2022
The Story of the Slaveship, Enterprise	Race, Law and History, talk 2	Ben Adamson	13 January, 2022
Post-Emancipation Legislation	Race, Law and History, talk 3	Walton Brown	13 January, 2022
Legislation is essential but not always adequate	Race, Law and History, talk 4.	Venous Memari	13 January, 2022
The Intersection of Women’s Suffrage and Race Speaker name Kim Caines	Race, Law and History, talk 5.	Kimberley Caines	13 January, 2022
Second Class Citizens: First Class Men	Book reading 1.	Eva Hodgson	13 January, 2022
Island Flames: Murder, Execution and Racial Enmity – The Real Story of Bermuda’s 1977 Riots	Book reading 2.	Jonathan Smith	13 January, 2022
Choir No. 1 and Choir No. 2 and Dr E. F. Gordon: Hero of Bermuda’s Working Class	Book reading 3.	Dale Butler	13 January, 2022
Bermuda and The Struggle for Reform: Race, Politics and Ideology, 1944-1998	Book reading 4.	Walton Brown Jr	13 January, 2022
Our Lady of Labour: Dr Barbara Ball	Book reading 5.	Ottiwell Simmons	13 January, 2022
Shackles of the Past by David Critchley	Book reading 6.	Wendy Davis Johnson	13 January, 2022
An excerpt from ‘The History of Mary Prince’	Book reading 7.	Treasure Tannock	13 January, 2022

Race and Resistance: Understanding Bermuda Today

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