Black British Migrants in Cuba - Race, Labor, and Empire in the Twentieth-Century Caribbean, 1898-1948

List of contents

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.

About the author

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

Summary

This book provides a detailed analysis of Afro-Caribbean experiences in Cuba from 1898 to 1948. Paying particular attention to labor, race, politics, and imperial relations, Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres weaves together a complex story of transnationalism in the African Diaspora.

Product details

• Authors: Jorge L Giovannetti-Torres, Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres, Jorge L. (University of Puerto Giovannetti-Torres, Jorge L. (University of Puerto Rico) Giovannetti-Torres
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781108437585
• ISBN: 978-1-108-43758-5
• No. of pages: 323
• Series: Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora; Cambridge Studies on the Afric
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Ethnic Studies, 20th Century, Cuba, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Latin America / General, Migration, immigration & emigration, Social and cultural history, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Migration, immigration and emigration, History of the Americas, Relating to Black British people, Black & Asian Studies