The coolie speaks : Chinese indentured laborers and African slaves in Cuba / Lisa Yun.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yun, Lisa, 1963-

Series:

Asian American history and culture.

Asian American history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indentured servants--Cuba--History.

Indentured servants.

Foreign workers, Chinese--Cuba--History.

Foreign workers, Chinese.

Slave labor--Cuba--History.

Slave labor.

Foreign workers, African--Cuba--History.

Foreign workers, African.

Enslaved persons' writings--Cuba--History and criticism.

Enslaved persons' writings.

Revolutionary literature, Cuban--History and criticism.

Revolutionary literature, Cuban.

Cuba--Race relations--History.

Cuba.

Cuba--Emigration and immigration--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Chinese indentured laborers and african slaves in Cuba

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Coolie Speaks focuses on Chinese laborers who worked side by side with African slaves in Cuba and wrote of their experiences of new bondage. Examining these narratives of resistance, the book reconceptualizes diasporic representations and histories to offer transformative re-examinations of ""Chinese,"" ""African,"" and ""Latino"" in mutually imbricated contexts.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Challenges of a Transnational History; Chapter 1: Historical Context of Coolie Traffi c to the Americas; The Narrative of Transition; The Early Experiments; Chinese and Indian Coolie Labor; Chinese Coolies and "Tea with Sugar"; Coolies on Ships and the Passage; Coolies on American Ships; Coolies on Land; Chapter 2: The Coolie Testimonies; The Commission Investigation; Methodological Challenges of Reading Testimonies; Coolie Testimonies and African Slave Narratives; Who Were the Coolies?; Chapter 3: The Petitions; The Witness Petition

The Verse PetitionThe Argument Petition; Philosophical Prelude; Chasing Freedom; Slaves of the Market; The Paper Chase Petition; Chapter 4: The Depositions; Race, Resistance, and Spectacular Subordination; The Peculiar Fatality of Color; Struggle Before Solidarity; The Cost of Domination; Chapter 5: An Afro- Chinese Author and the Next Generation; The Subversive and the Translator; The Motley Tongue; Liberation, Solidarity, and "Socio- po liti cal Adultery"; Coolies and Californians; Conclusion: Old and New Maps of Coolies; Addendum: Selected Petitions; Sources; Notes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-276) and index.

ISBN:

9786611383053

9781281383051

1281383058

9781592135837

1592135838

OCLC:

437213716