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Author McGraw, Jason, author.

Title The work of recognition : Caribbean Colombia and the postemancipation struggle for citizenship / Jason McGraw
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 328 pages)
Contents The emancipatory moment -- Revolution of the people, war of the races -- The freedom of industry and labor -- The lettered republic -- The rise and fall of popular politics -- A hungry people struggles -- Class war of a thousand days -- Epilogue
Summary This book tells the compelling story of postemancipation Colombia, from the liberation of the slaves in the 1850s through the country's first general labor strikes in the 1910s. As Jason McGraw demonstrates, ending slavery fostered a new sense of citizenship, one shaped both by a model of universal rights and by the particular freedom struggles of African-descended people. Colombia's Caribbean coast was at the center of these transformations, in which women and men of color, the region's majority population, increasingly asserted the freedom to control their working conditions, fight in civil wars, and express their religious beliefs. The history of Afro-Colombians as principal social actors after emancipation, McGraw argues, opens up a new view on the practice and meaning of citizenship. Crucial to this conception of citizenship was the right of recognition. Indeed, attempts to deny the role of people of color in the republic occurred at key turning points exactly because they demanded public recognition as citizens. In connecting Afro-Colombians to national development, The Work of Recognition also places the story within the broader contexts of Latin American popular politics, culture, and the African diaspora
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Black people -- Colombia -- Atlantic Coast -- History
Black people -- Colombia -- History
Citizenship -- Colombia -- History
Freed persons -- Colombia -- History
Labor -- Colombia -- History
Recognition (Philosophy) -- Political aspects -- Colombia -- History
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Colombia -- History
Working class -- Colombia -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Black people
Citizenship
Freed persons
Labor
Politics and government
Race relations
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation
Working class
SUBJECT Colombia -- Politics and government -- 1810- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85028507
Colombia -- Race relations -- History
Subject Colombia
Colombia -- Atlantic Coast
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469617879
1469617870
9781469617886
1469617889