Black British migrants in Cuba : race, labor, and empire in the twentieth-century Caribbean, 1898-1948 / Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres.

Author
Giovannetti, Jorge L. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
  • ©2018
Description
xviii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Details

Subject(s)
Series
Cambridge studies on the African diaspora [More in this series]
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Historical groundings : unsettled times, unsettled people
  • Black British Caribbean migration to Cuba, 1898-1948
  • Migration, racial fears, and violence, 1898-1917
  • The limits of British imperial support : diplomacy after Jobabo and Cuban national interests
  • "Cuba got mash up" : British Antilleans between Cuba and the Empire, 1921-1925
  • The racial politics of migrant labor : company town control, and repatriations, 1925-1931
  • Transactions in colonial Caribbean governments and consular policy, 1925-1933
  • The nationalization of labor and Caribbean workers, 1933-1938
  • "The best and most permanent solution"? Repatriation or assimilation, 1938-1948
  • Race, nation, and empire.
ISBN
  • 9781108423465 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
  • 1108423469 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
LCCN
2018023425
OCLC
1040655330
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