Empire's guest workers, Haitian migrants in Cuba during the age of US occupation, Matthew Casey, University of Southern Mississippi
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Empire's guest workers, Haitian migrants in Cuba during the age of US occupation, Matthew Casey, University of Southern Mississippi
Language
eng
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Empire's guest workers
Medium
electronic resource
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dictionaries
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989718657
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Matthew Casey, University of Southern Mississippi
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Afro-Latin AmericaCambridge Social Sciences eBooks
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Haitian migrants in Cuba during the age of US occupation
Summary
Haitian seasonal migration to Cuba is central to narratives about race, national development, and US imperialism in the early twentieth-century Caribbean. Filling a major gap in the literature, this innovative study reconstructs Haitian guestworkers' lived experiences as they moved among the rural and urban areas of Haiti, and the sugar plantations, coffee farms, and cities of eastern Cuba. It offers an unprecedented glimpse into the daily workings of empire, labor, and political economy in Haiti and Cuba. Migrants' efforts to improve their living and working conditions and practice their religions shaped migration policies, economic realities, ideas of race, and Caribbean spirituality in Haiti and Cuba as each experienced US imperialism.--, Provided by publisher
Table Of Contents
Making the Haitian-Cuban border and creating temporary migrants -- Leaving U.S. occupied Haiti -- Living and working on Cuban sugar plantations -- Picking coffee and building families in Eastern Cuba -- Creating religious communities, serving spirits and decrying sorcery -- Mobilizing politically and debating race and empire in Cuban cities -- Returning to Haiti and the aftermath of U.S. occupation -- Epilogue enduring legacies and post-colonial divergences
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