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

Name: Radical Moves Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age
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ISBN: 9780807872857

ISBN-10: 0807872857

ISBN-13: 9780807872857

Edition: 2013

Authors: Lara Putnam

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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. InRadical Moves, Lara Putnam takes readers from tin-roof tropical dancehalls to the elegant black-owned ballrooms of Jazz Age Harlem to trace the…

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List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 1/7/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Lara Putnam is associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh and author of The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960.



Acknowledgments


Note on Sources


Introduction



Migrants' Routes, Ties, and Role in Empire, 1850S-1920S



Spirits of a Mobile World: Worship, Protection, and Threat at Home and Abroad, 1900S-1930S



Alien Everywhere: Immigrant Exclusion and Populist Bargains, 1920S-1930S



The Transnational Black Press and Questions of the Collective, 1920S-1930S



The Weekly Regge: Cosmopolitan Music and Race-Conscious Moves in a "World a Jazz" 1910S-1930S



The Politics of Return and Fractures of Rule in the British Caribbean, 1930-1940


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index