Cover Page; Radical Moves; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations, Maps, and Tables; Acknowledgments; Note on Sources; Introduction; 1 Migrants' Routes, Ties, and Role in Empire, 1850s-1920s; 2 Spirits of a Mobile World; 3 Alien Everywhere; 4 The Transnational Black Press and Questions of the Collective, 1920s-1930s; 5 The Weekly Regge; 6 The Politics of Return and Fractures of Rule in the British Caribbean, 1930-1940; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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 canefields 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 antiblack immigration laws swept the hemisphere. Facing borders and barriers as never before, Afro-Caribbean migrants rethought allegiances of race, class, and empire. In Radical Moves, Lara Putnam takes reade