Matthew Casey

Empire's Guestworkers

Haitian Migrants in Cuba During the Age of Us Occupation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An innovative analysis of Haitian migrant experience, central to the exploration of race, politics, and development during US military occupation in Cuba.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 164mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 585g
• ISBN-13: 9781107127692
• ISBN-10: 1107127696
• Artikelnr.: 47375818

Autorenporträt

Matthew Casey is Nina Bell Suggs Professor of History at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Making the Haitian-Cuban border and creating temporary migrants
2. Leaving US occupied Haiti
3. Living and working in Cuban sugar plantations
4. Picking coffee and building families in Eastern Cuba
5. Creating religious communities, serving spirits and decrying sorcery
6. Mobilizing politically and debating race and empire in Cuban cities
7. Returning to Haiti and the aftermath of US occupation.