Coolie Speaks Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba

Name: Coolie Speaks Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba
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ISBN: 9781592135820

ISBN-10: 159213582X

ISBN-13: 9781592135820

Edition: 2009

Authors: Lisa Yun

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 2/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Challenges of a Transnational History



Historical Context of Coolie Traffic to the Americas


The Narrative of Transition


The Early Experiments


Chinese and Indian Coolie Labor


Chinese Coolies and "Tea with Sugar"


Coolies on Ships and the Passage


Coolies on American Ships


Coolies on Land



The Coolie Testimonies


The Commission Investigation


Methodological Challenges of Reading Testimonies


Coolie Testimonies and African Slave Narratives


Who Were the Coolies?



The Petitions


The Witness Petition


The Verse Petition


The Argument Petition


Philosophical Prelude


Chasing Freedom


Slaves of the Market


The Paper Chase Petition



The Depositions


Race, Resistance, and Spectacular Subordination


The Peculiar Fatality of Color


Struggle Before Solidarity


The Cost of Domination



An Afro-Chinese Author and the Next Generation


The Subversive and the Translator


The Motley Tongue


Liberation, Solidarity, and "Socio-political Adultery"


Coolies and Californians


Conclusion: Old and New Maps of Coolies


Addendum: Selected Petitions


Sources


Notes