Radical moves : Caribbean migrants and the politics of race in the jazz age / Lara Putnam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Putnam, Lara.

Contributor:

McWilliams-Tattersall Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism--Political aspects.

History.

Racism.

Emigration and immigration--Political aspects.

Anti-imperialist movements.

West Indians--Politics and government.

West Indians.

Black people--Politics and government.

West Indians--Social conditions.

Black people--Social conditions.

Black people.

West Indies, British--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.

West Indies, British.

Black people--West Indies, British--Migrations--History--20th century.

West Indians--Migrations--History--20th century.

Black people--Social conditions--20th century.

West Indians--Social conditions--20th century.

Black people--Politics and government--20th century.

West Indians--Politics and government--20th century.

Anti-imperialist movements--History--20th century.

Emigration and immigration--Political aspects--History--20th century.

Emigration and immigration.

Racism--Political aspects--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

xiii, 322 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2013]

Summary:

In the generations after emancipation, hundreds of thousands of African-descended working-class men and women left their homes in the British Caribbean to seek opportunity abroad: in the goldfield of Venezuela and the cane fields of Cuba, the canal construction in Panama, and the bustling city streets of Brooklyn. But in the 1920s and 1930s, racist nativism and a brutal cascade of antiblack immigration laws swept the hemisphere. Facing borders and barriers as never before, Afro-Caribbean migrants rethought allegiance of race, class, and empire. In Radical Moves, Lara Putnam takes readers from tin-roof tropical dance halls to the elegant black-owned ballrooms of Jazz Age Harlem to trace the roots of the black-internationalist and anticolonial movements that would remark the twentieth century.

From Trinidad to 136th street, these were years of great dreams and righteous demands. Praying of "jazzing" writing letters to the editor or letters home, Caribbean men and women tried on new ideas about the collective. The popular culture of black internationalism they created-from Marcus Garvey's UNIA to "regge" dances Rastafarianism, and Joe Louis's worldwide fandom-still echoes in the present. Book jacket.

Contents:

Migrants' Routes, Ties, and Role in Empire, 1850s-1920s

Spirits of a Mobile World : Worship, Protection, and Threat at Home and Abroad, 1900s-1930s

Alien Everywhere : Immigrant Exclusion and Populist Bargains, 1920s-1930s

The Transnational Black Press and Questions of the Collective, 1920s-1930s

The Weekly Regge : Cosmopolitan Music and Race-Conscious Moves in a "World a Jazz," 1910s-1930s

The Politics of Return and Fractures of Rule in the British Caribbean, 1930-1940.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the McWilliams-Tattersall Fund.

ISBN:

9780807835821

080783582X

9780807872857

0807872857

OCLC:

785863902