Radical moves : Caribbean migrants and the politics of race in the Jazz Age / Lara Putnam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Putnam, Lara, author.

Contributor:

Alexander Street Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Black people.

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

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

West Indians.

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

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

Racism.

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

Anti-imperialist movements.

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

West Indies, British.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 322 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

In 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 cane fields of Cuba, the canal construction in Panama, and the bustling city streets of Brooklyn. But in the 1920s and 1930s, racist nativism and a brutal cascade of anti-black immigration laws swept the hemisphere. Facing borders and barriers as never before, Afro-Caribbean migrants re-thought allegiances of race, class, and empire. In Radical Moves, Lara Putnam takes readers from tin-roof tropical dance-halls to the elegant black-owned ballrooms of Jazz Age Harlem to trace the roots of the black-internationalist and anti-colonial movements that would remake the twentieth century. From Trinidad to 136th Street, these were years of great dreams and righteous demands. Praying or "jazzing," writing letters to the editor or letters home, Caribbean men and women tried on new ideas about the collective. The popular culture of black internationalism they created -- from Marcus Garvey's UNIA to "regge" dances, Rastafarianism, and Joe Louis's worldwide fandom -- still echoes in the present.

Contents:

Introduction

1 Migrants' Routes, Ties, and Role in Empire, 1850s-1920s

2 Spirits of a Mobile World: Worship, Protection, and Threat at Home and Abroad, 1900s-1930s

3 Alien Everywhere: Immigrant Exclusion and Populist Bargains, 1920s-1930s

4 The Transnational Black Press and Questions of the Collective, 1920s-1930s

5 The Weekly Regge: Cosmopolitan Music and Race-Conscious Moves in a 'World a Jazz,' 1910s-1930s

6 The Politics of Return and Fractues of Rule in the British Caribbean, 1930-1940

Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed September 11, 2019).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-313) and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Putnam, Lara. Radical moves : Caribbean migrants and the politics of race in the Jazz Age.

OCLC:

828076972

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.