Race and class in the colonial Bahamas : 1880-1960 / Gail Saunders ; foreword by Bridget Brereton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saunders, Gail, author.

Brereton, Bridget, 1946- author of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social classes--Bahamas--History.

Social classes.

Social conditions.

History.

Race relations.

Bahamas--Race relations--History.

Bahamas.

Bahamas--Social conditions--History.

Bahamas--History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 371 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]

Summary:

Saunders shows that, although the Bahamas had class tensions in common with other British colonial lands, Bahamian racial tensions were not necessarily parallel to those across the West Indies so much as they mirrored those occurring in the U.S., with power and/or money consolidated in the hands of the white minority. She examines the nature of the Bahamian race and class relations and interactions between dominant groups--from whites, to people who identified as creole or mixed race, to liberated Africans--between the 1880s and the early 1960s.

Contents:

The Bahamas in the post-emancipation period

Bahamian society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: class, race, and ethnicity

Gradual changes in the Bahamas, 1880-1914

World War I and prohibition

The 1930s and the depression: tourism and restlessness

World War II and the 1942 Nassau riot

The formative years, 1950-1958: political organization, race, and protest

The 1958 general strike and its aftermath

Confronting a divided society.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-358) and index.

ISBN:

9780813062549

0813062543

OCLC:

915120637