A transnational history of the modern Caribbean : popular resistance across borders / Kirwin Shaffer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shaffer, Kirwin R., author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Government, Resistance to--Caribbean Area--History.

Government, Resistance to.

Insurgency--Caribbean Area.

Insurgency.

Manners and customs.

Social conditions.

Caribbean Area--History.

Caribbean Area.

Caribbean Area--Social life and customs.

Caribbean Area--Social conditions.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 203 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. A Popular History of Resistance across Borders

Thinking About "Resistance"

If It's Not Rebellion, Is it Just Another Form of Accommodation?

Culture and Resistance

Transnational Resistance and Alternative Geographies

Women and Resistance

Some Cautionary Asides About Hero Worship and Resistance

The Chapters Ahead

Works Cited and Further References

2. Deye mbn gen mbn: The Haitian Revolution Throughout the Caribbean

Indigenous and Slave Resistance before the Haitian Revolution

On the Eve of the Haitian Revolution

The Revolt of the Enslaved

Threats from Napoleon and Citizen Toussaint

Resisting Toussaint's State

The French Invasion and the Declaration of Independence

The New Country of Ayiti

The Transnational Impact of the Haitian Revolution

Inspiring Revolts around the Caribbean

Haiti and Caribbean Political Radicalism

Revolutionary Privateering

Conclusion

3. Liberating Ourselves: Slave Resistance and Emancipation

Motherhood and Resistance

Transnational Religion and Resistance

Caribbean Resistance and Its Transnational Impact on the United States

Transnationalism, Resistance, and Abolition in the French West Indies

Resistance in the Spanish Caribbean, 1790s-1840s

Rebellious Market Women of the Caribbean

4. Liberating Ourselves: Freedom Fighting after Slavery

Haiti and Resistance during the Boyer Years

Resisting British Apprenticeship

Resisting Spanish Apprenticeship

Free Worker Revolts, Protests, and Strikes

Resisting Indentured Servitude

Intra-Class Resistance: Workers Fighting Workers

Morant Bay, Jamaica, 1865

Cultural Resistance

5. Anti-Colonial Awakenings: The Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Panama, 1820s-Early 1900s

Early Anti-Spanish Efforts in the Caribbean: El Aguila Negra and Filibusters

The 1860s War for Restoration in the Dominican Republic

Transnational Anti-Colonialism: The Antilles for Antilleans

Cuba's Ten Tears War, 1868-1878

The Little War in Cuba, 1879-1880

The Cuban War for Independence, 1895-1898

Banditry, Baseball, and Resistance

Transnational Support for Independence

The Spanish-American War and Its Aftermath

Panamanian Independence

6. Working-Class Resistance and Anti-Imperialism, 1900-World War II

Transnational Anarchism Confronts US Expansion

Resisting US Imperialism in Haiti, 1915-1934

Resisting US Imperialism in the Dominican Republic, 1916-1924

Caribbean Anti-Imperialist Leagues in the 1920s and 1930s

Transnational Radical Support for Sandino's Anti-Imperialism

Transnational Resistance in Imperial Black Contact Zones: Central America and Cuba

Transnational Resistance in Imperial Black Contact Zones: The Great War and at Home

Organized Labor and Resistance to British Rule

Trinidad 1937

Jamaica 1938

7. Fighting Tyranny, Colonialism, and Imperialism at Mid-Century

Resisting Dictators: Machado in Cuba

Resisting Dictators: Trujillo in the Dominican Republic

The Caribbean Legion Wages Transnational War Against Dictators

Puerto Rican Nationalists and Anti-Colonial Resistance, 1930s-1950s

Anti-Americanism at Mid-Century

Anti-Colonialism and Decolonization in the British West Indies

Fighting a Different Form of Colonialism in the French West Indies

Resistance in the Dutch West Indies

8. A Caribbean "Black Lives Matter": Black Consciousness and Black Power, Early 1900s-1970s

Afro-Cuban Politics and the Partido Independiente de Color in the Early 1900s

The UN I A and Transnational Black Consciousness, 1910s-1920s

Black Consciousness Meets Marxism, 1920s-1930s

The African Blood Brotherhood, 1919-1922

Black Consciousness and Cultural Resistance, 1920s-1950s

The Cultural Politics of Noirisme in Haiti: The Rise and Rule of

Papa Doc

Rastafari and Black Consciousness in Jamaica, 1930s-1970s

Rasta and the Cultural Politics of Reggae Music in the 1970s

Aime Cesaire, Frantz Fanon, and Walter Rodney: Intellectual

Roots of Black Power

Black Power across the Caribbean

Black Power and the 1970 Trinidad Revolution

9. Hasta la Victoria Siempre: The Cuban Revolution Throughout the Caribbean, 1950s-1980s

Urban and Rural Resistance Against the Batista Dictatorship

Building the New Socialist Cuba

Resisting the Revolution: Counterrevolutionary Violence

Resisting Revolutionary Policies: The Politics of Childhood in the Early 1960s

The Revolution Didn't Go Far Enough: Being Too Radical for the Revolution

Against the Revolution, Nothing: Cuban Cinema and Revolutionary Politics

Spreading Revolution

The Grenadian Revolution, 1979-1983

The Sandinista Revolution, 1979-1990

10. Masses vs. Massa: The Ongoing Antiauthoritarian Struggle

Fall of the Duvaliers and Transition to People's Rule in Haiti, 1980s-1990s

Puerto Rican Nationalists, 1970s-2000s

The Maroon War in Suriname, 1986-1992

Abu Bakr and Trinidad's Muslim Revolt, 1990

Colombian Revolutionaries, I960s-2010s

Transnational Chavismo and the Multipolar Axis Against Washington

Dissent during Cuba's "Special Period," 1990s-2010s

The 2009 Labor Uprisings in the French West Indies

Resistance to Political and Natural Disasters in Haiti and Puerto Rico

Indigenous Peoples' Resistance

Resisting Sexual Violence

LGBTQ Resistance to Homophobia and Injustice

Reparations

Works Cited and Further References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9783030930110

3030930114

OCLC:

1285560888

Publisher Number:

99991193689