Cultural References
Michael X is the subject of the essay "Michael X and the Black Power Killings in Trinidad" by V.S. Naipaul, collected in The Return of Eva Perón and the Killings in Trinidad (1980). He is also believed to be the fictional model for Jimmy Ahmed in Naipaul's 1975 novel Guerrillas.
Michael X is a secondary character in The Bank Job (2008), a dramatisation of a real-life bank robbery in 1971. The film claims that Michael X was in possession of indecent photographs of Princess Margaret and used them to avoid criminal prosecution by threatening to publish them. He was played by Peter de Jersey.
Michael X and his trial are the subject of a chapter in Geoffrey Robertson's legal memoir The Justice Game.
Michael X plays a part in Make Believe: A True Story, a memoir by Diana Athill.
Michael X is the eponymous title of a play by the writer Vanessa Walters. The play takes the form of a 1960s black power rally and was performed at The Tabernacle Theatre, Powis Square, London W11 (Notting Hill), in November 2008.
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“All cultural change reduces itself to a difference of categories. All revolutions, whether in the sciences or world history, occur merely because spirit has changed its categories in order to understand and examine what belongs to it, in order to possess and grasp itself in a truer, deeper, more intimate and unified manner.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)