ISBN:
1108534597
,
9781108534598
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Series Statement:
Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Giovannetti, Jorge L Black British migrants in Cuba
DDC:
305.896/072909041
Keywords:
Migrant labor 20th century
;
Sugar workers Social conditions
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Blacks History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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Blacks
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Emigration and immigration ; Economic aspects
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Emigration and immigration ; Social aspects
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International relations
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Migrant labor
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Sugar workers ; Social conditions
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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History
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West Indies, British Emigration and immigration
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Economic aspects
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West Indies, British Relations
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Cuba Relations
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West Indies, British Emigration and immigration
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Social aspects
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Cuba
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West Indies ; British West Indies
Abstract:
2 Black British Caribbean Migration to Cuba, 1898-1948Routes and Groups; Migrants' Settlement and Regional Hegemony; Gender and Migrant Labor; Migrant Groups in the 1930s; Conclusion; 3 Migration, Racial Fears, and Violence, 1898-1917; Racial Fears Awaken; The Jobabo Massacre; 4 The Limits of British Imperial Support: Diplomacy after Jobabo and Cuban National Interests; Diplomacy and Politics after Jobabo; ''A Public Burden to the Nation''; Imperial Hopes and Afro-diasporic Self-Reliance; 5 ''Cuba Got Mash Up'': British Antilleans between Cuba and the Empire, 1921-1925.
Abstract:
Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Afro-Caribbean Diaspora and Caribbean Migration; The Cuban Nation and Its Black Caribbean Outsiders; Black British Subjects and the British Empire; The United States, the Caribbean, and Cuba; Unbound History; The Structure of the Book; 1 Historical Groundings: Unsettled Times, Unsettled People; Cuba's Racial Fears in the Nineteenth Century; Unsettled People: Intra-Caribbean Migration History; An Unsettled Republic: Cuba, 1898-1912; Conclusion.
Abstract:
Crisis across the Caribbean SeaLabor Challenges and Workers' Agency; Another Diplomatic Saga, 1921-1924; 6 The Racial Politics of Migrant Labor: Company Town Control, and Repatriations, 1925-1931; The Racial Politics of Labor; Repatriations and Company Town Control; Conclusion; 7 Transactions in Colonial Caribbean Governments and Consular Policy, 1925-1933; British Colonial Caribbean Policies; Reorganizing Consular Establishments; Conclusion; 8 The Nationalization of Labor and Caribbean Workers, 1933-1938; The 50% Law; Contentions and Divisions under the 50% Law.
Abstract:
Ethnography (Interviews, Private Papers, and Fieldnotes)Newspapers and Periodicals; Contemporary Published Sources; Books, Articles, Dissertations, Audiovisual Materials; Index.
Abstract:
Provides a valuable transnational history of the African Diaspora through examination of British Afro-Caribbeans in Cuba
Abstract:
Repatriations and Agricultural Production9 ''The Best and Most Permanent Solution''?: Repatriation or Assimilation, 1938-1948; Migrants and the 1940 Cuban Constitution; World War II and British Subjects in Cuba; The 1943 Stockdale Report; Challenges after Stockdale; A Question Settled?; 10 Race, Nation, and Empire; The White Cuban Nation and the Black Outsider; Black Subjects of the White Empire; Epilogue; Bibliography; A Note on Archival Sources; Archives; Cuba; Dominica; Jamaica; Puerto Rico; St. Vincent; St. Lucia; Spain; United Kingdom; United States.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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