Title Black British Migrants in Cuba : Race, Labor, and Empire in the Twentieth-Century Caribbean, 1898--1948 / Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource Series Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora Cambridge studies on the African diaspora. 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 Summary Provides a valuable transnational history of the African Diaspora through examination of British Afro-Caribbeans in Cuba Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF file page (EBSCO, viewed October 1, 2018) Subject Black people -- West Indies, British -- History Migrant labor -- Cuba -- 20th century Sugar workers -- Cuba -- Social conditions SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Black people Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects International relations Migrant labor Sugar workers -- Social conditions SUBJECT 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 Subject Cuba West Indies -- British West Indies Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781108534598 1108534597 9781108423465 9781108437585 1108423469 1108437583 9781108526128 1108526128

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