Black Labor Migration in Caribbean Guatemala, 1882–1923 [electronic resource] / Frederick Douglass Opie ; foreword by Richard Greenwald and Timothy J. Minchin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Opie, Frederick Douglass.

Series:

Working in the Americas.

Working in the Americas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Guatemala--History.

African Americans.

Foreign workers--Guatemala--History.

Foreign workers.

Caribbean Area--Race relations--History.

Caribbean Area.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 145 p.) : ill.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2009.

Summary:

Using primary and secondary sources as well as ethnographic data, Opie details the struggles of these workers who were ultimately inspired to organize by the ideas of Marcus Garvey. Regularly suffering class- and race-based attacks and persecution, black labourers frequently met such attacks with resistance. Their leverage - being able to shut down the railroad - was crucially important to the revolutionary movements in 1897 and 1920.

Contents:

Historical context : race and labor in Guatemala

Race, resistance, and revolution in the late nineteenth century

Race relations on the early-twentieth-century Caribbean frontier

Revolvers, shotguns, machetes, and clubs : the strikes of 1909-1919

Labor radicalism on the Caribbean coast : Ladino mobilization in guatemala, 1920-1923

We depend on others too much : Garveyism and labor radicalism in the Caribbean Basin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [103]-138) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8130-4517-7

0-8130-3873-1

OCLC:

621689941