Indigenous passages to Cuba, 1515-1900 / Jason M. Yaremko.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yaremko, Jason M., 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Cuba--History.

Indigenous peoples.

Immigrants--Cuba--History.

Immigrants.

Colonization.

History.

Emigration and immigration.

Cubans.

Cuba.

Cubans--Migrations--History.

Cuba--Emigration and immigration--History.

North America--Emigration and immigration--History.

North America.

Cuba--Colonization--History.

Physical Description:

xi, 242 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]

Summary:

"Jason Yaremko traces the movements and migrations of indigenous peoples from several regions of North America into the Caribbean basin, particularly to Cuba, during the Spanish colonial period. Yaremko argues that the history of the journeys of indigenous individuals, groups, and communities to Cuba--and their multifaceted and dynamic experiences of survival, adaptation, resistance, and negotiation of Cuban colonial society--has played an important but often unacknowledged role in identity formation in Cuban and Caribbean history"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Imperial geopolitics, the Florida-Cuba nexus, and Amerindian passages

The "evil designs" of "frequent intercourse" : Havana, empire, and indigenous geopolitics

"Barbarous nations" : Apaches, "Mecos, " and other "indios bárbaros" in colonial Cuba

Mayas and the Mesoamerican presence in Cuba

Yucatec Mayas, transnational resistance, and the quotidian struggles of indentured labor in Cuba, 1848-64

Blood contract : continuity, change, and persistence in colonial indigenous labor forms and elite strategies

Conclusion: Diaspora and the enduring (and diverse) indigenous presence in Cuba.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-235) and index.

ISBN:

9780813062808

0813062802

OCLC:

923549470