Black British migrants in Cuba : race, labor, and empire in the twentieth-century Caribbean, 1898-1948 / Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giovannetti-Torres, Jorge L., author.

Series:

Cambridge studies on the African diaspora.

Cambridge studies on the African diaspora

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--West Indies, British--History.

Black people.

Migrant labor--Cuba--20th century.

Migrant labor.

Sugar workers--Cuba--Social conditions.

Sugar workers.

West Indies, British--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

West Indies, British.

West Indies, British--Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.

West Indies, British--Relations--Cuba.

Cuba--Relations--West Indies, British.

Cuba.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 305 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Black British Migrants in Cuba offers a comprehensive study of migration from the British Caribbean to Cuba in the pre-World War II era, spotlighting an important chapter of the larger trajectory of the Afro-Atlantic diaspora. Grounded in extensive and rigorous multi-sited research, this book examines the different migration experiences of Jamaican, Leeward, and Windward Islanders, along with the transnational processes of labor recruitment and the local control of workers in the plantation. The book also explains the history of racial fear and political and economic forces behind the marking of black migrants as the 'Other' and the resulting discrimination, racism, and violence against them. Through analysis of the oppositional and resistance strategies employed by British Antilleans, the author conveys migrants' determination to work, live, and survive in the Caribbean.

Contents:

Historical groundings : unsettled times, unsettled people

Black British Caribbean migration to Cuba, 1898-1948

Migration, racial fears, and violence, 1898-1917

The limits of British imperial support : diplomacy after Jobabo and Cuban national interests

"Cuba got mash up" : British Antilleans between Cuba and the Empire, 1921-1925

The racial politics of migrant labor : company town control, and repatriations, 1925-1931

Transactions in colonial Caribbean governments and consular policy, 1925-1933

The nationalization of labor and Caribbean workers, 1933-1938

"The best and most permanent solution"? Repatriation or assimilation, 1938-1948

Race, nation, and empire.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Oct 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-53033-8

1-108-52612-8

1-108-53459-7