Chinese Cubans : a transnational history / Kathleen Lopez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

López, Kathleen, author.

Contributor:

ebrary, Inc.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese--Cuba--History.

Chinese.

Chinese--Cuba--Ethinic identity.

Contract labor--Cuba--History--19th century.

Contract labor.

Community development--Cuba--History.

Community development.

Ethnic relations.

Emigration and immigration.

History.

Cuba--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.

Cuba.

Cuba--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 339 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

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

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In the mid-nineteenth century, Cuba's infamous "coolie" trade brought well over 100,000 Chinese indentured laborers to its shores. Though subjected to abominable conditions, they were followed during subsequent decades by smaller numbers of merchants, craftsmen, and free migrants searching for better lives far from home. In a comprehensive, vibrant history that draws deeply on Chinese and Spanish-language sources in both China and Cuba, Kathleen López explores the transition of the Chinese from indentured to free migrants, the formation of transnational communities, and the eventual incorporation of the Chinese into the Cuban citizenry during the first half of the twentieth century. Chinese Cubans shows how Chinese migration, intermarriage, and assimilation are central to Cuban history and national identity during a key period of transition from slave to wage labor and from colony to nation. On a broader level, López draws out implications for issues of race, national identity, and transnational migration, especially along the Pacific rim. Book jacket.

Contents:

I From Indentured to Free

1 Coolies 15

2 Free Laborers 54

3 Families and Communities 82

II Migrants between Empires and Nations

4 Freedom Fighters 117

5 Yellow Peril 144

III Transnational and National Belonging

6 Transnational Connections 165

7 Chinese and Cubanidad 190

8 Revolution and Remigration 221.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

OCLC:

843861816

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.