Title Radical Moves : Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (623 pages) Contents 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 Notes Print version record Subject Black people -- West Indies, British -- Migrations -- History -- 20th century West Indians -- Migrations -- History -- 20th century Black people -- Social conditions -- 20th century West Indians -- Social conditions -- 20th century Black people -- Politics and government -- 20th century West Indians -- Politics and government -- 20th century Anti-imperialist movements -- History -- 20th century Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century Racism -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century Anti-imperialist movements Black people -- Politics and government Black people -- Social conditions Emigration and immigration Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects Racism -- Political aspects West Indians -- Politics and government West Indians -- Social conditions SUBJECT West Indies, British -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century Subject West Indies -- British West Indies Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780807838136 0807838136 9781469600246 1469600242

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