Radical Moves Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age / Lara Putnam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Putnam, Lara.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Racism.

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

Emigration and immigration.

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

Anti-imperialist movements.

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

West Indians.

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

Black people.

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

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

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

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

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

West Indies, British.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

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 goldfields of Venezuela and the canefields of Cuba, the canal construction in Panama, and the bustling city streets of Brooklyn. But in the 1920's and 1930's, racist nativism and a brutal cascade of antiblack immigration laws swept the hemisphere. Facing borders and barriers as never before, Afro-Caribbean migrants rethought allegiances of race, class, and empire. In Radical Moves, Lara Putnam takes reade

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-9313-051-5

979-88-908436-1-6

1-4696-0024-2

0-8078-3813-6

OCLC:

829461556