Black British Migrants in Cuba Race, Labor, and Empire in the Twentieth-Century Caribbean, 1898--1948

Black British Migrants in Cuba Race, Labor, and Empire in the Twentieth-Century Caribbean, 1898--1948 /

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Provides a valuable transnational history of the African Diaspora through examination of British Afro-Caribbeans in Cuba.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Giovannetti, Jorge L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Series:Cambridge studies on the African diaspora.
Subjects:
Black people > West Indies, British > History.
Migrant labor > Cuba > 20th century.
Sugar workers > Cuba > Social conditions.
West Indies, British > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
West Indies, British > Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects.
West Indies, British > Relations > Cuba.
Cuba > Relations > West Indies, British.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Full text (Emerson users only)
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Afro-Caribbean Diaspora and Caribbean Migration; The Cuban Nation and Its Black Caribbean Outsiders; Black British Subjects and the British Empire; The United States, the Caribbean, and Cuba; Unbound History; The Structure of the Book; 1 Historical Groundings: Unsettled Times, Unsettled People; Cuba's Racial Fears in the Nineteenth Century; Unsettled People: Intra-Caribbean Migration History; An Unsettled Republic: Cuba, 1898-1912; Conclusion.
  • 2 Black British Caribbean Migration to Cuba, 1898-1948Routes and Groups; Migrants' Settlement and Regional Hegemony; Gender and Migrant Labor; Migrant Groups in the 1930s; Conclusion; 3 Migration, Racial Fears, and Violence, 1898-1917; Racial Fears Awaken; The Jobabo Massacre; 4 The Limits of British Imperial Support: Diplomacy after Jobabo and Cuban National Interests; Diplomacy and Politics after Jobabo; ''A Public Burden to the Nation''; Imperial Hopes and Afro-diasporic Self-Reliance; 5 ''Cuba Got Mash Up'': British Antilleans between Cuba and the Empire, 1921-1925.
  • Crisis across the Caribbean SeaLabor Challenges and Workers' Agency; Another Diplomatic Saga, 1921-1924; 6 The Racial Politics of Migrant Labor: Company Town Control, and Repatriations, 1925-1931; The Racial Politics of Labor; Repatriations and Company Town Control; Conclusion; 7 Transactions in Colonial Caribbean Governments and Consular Policy, 1925-1933; British Colonial Caribbean Policies; Reorganizing Consular Establishments; Conclusion; 8 The Nationalization of Labor and Caribbean Workers, 1933-1938; The 50% Law; Contentions and Divisions under the 50% Law.
  • Repatriations and Agricultural Production9 ''The Best and Most Permanent Solution''?: Repatriation or Assimilation, 1938-1948; Migrants and the 1940 Cuban Constitution; World War II and British Subjects in Cuba; The 1943 Stockdale Report; Challenges after Stockdale; A Question Settled?; 10 Race, Nation, and Empire; The White Cuban Nation and the Black Outsider; Black Subjects of the White Empire; Epilogue; Bibliography; A Note on Archival Sources; Archives; Cuba; Dominica; Jamaica; Puerto Rico; St. Vincent; St. Lucia; Spain; United Kingdom; United States.
  • Ethnography (Interviews, Private Papers, and Fieldnotes)Newspapers and Periodicals; Contemporary Published Sources; Books, Articles, Dissertations, Audiovisual Materials; Index.

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