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Myths of ethnicity and nation : immigration, work, and identity in the Belize banana industry / Mark Moberg.
Penn Museum Library HD9259.B3 B426 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moberg, Mark, 1959-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Banana trade--Belize--History.
- Banana trade.
- Banana trade--Belize--Employees--History.
- Agricultural laborers--Belize--History.
- Agricultural laborers.
- Foreign workers--Belize--History.
- Foreign workers.
- Ethnic relations.
- History.
- Employees.
- Belize--Ethnic relations.
- Belize.
- Physical Description:
- xxxvi, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [1997]
- Contents:
- Introduction : caste and class in southern Belize
- Culture and history in the forgotten district
- Boom, bust, and monopoly control : cycles of banana production in Belize
- Local and international contexts of production
- Out of work in the fields of gold : Belizean labor in the banana industry
- Central American immigration : the reshaping of a labor market
- The construction of ethnicity on banana farms
- Transnational identities and trajectories in the banana belt
- Toward paths that unite : strategies of nationhood and development
- Epilogue : the crushing of banderas unidas.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-211) and index.
- ISBN:
- 087049970X
- OCLC:
- 36074473
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