Jorge L Giovannetti-Torres

Black British Migrants in Cuba

Race, Labor, and Empire in the Twentieth-Century Caribbean, 1898-1948

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 323
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781108437585
• ISBN-10: 1108437583
• Artikelnr.: 59321393

Autorenporträt

Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Historical groundings: unsettled times, unsettled people
2. Black British Caribbean migration to Cuba, 1898-1948
3. Migration, racial fears, and violence, 1898-1917
4. The limits of British imperial support: diplomacy after Jobabo and Cuban national interests
5. 'Cuba got mash up': British Antilleans between Cuba and the Empire, 1921-1925
6. The racial politics of migrant labor: company town control, and repatriations, 1925-1931
7. Transactions in Colonial Caribbean governments and consular policy, 1925-1933
8. The nationalization of labor and Caribbean workers, 1933-1938
9. 'The best and most permanent solution?' Repatriation or Assimilation, 1938-1948
10. Race, nation, and empire
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index.