UID:
almafu_9959244196102883
Format:
1 online resource (337 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
979-88-908436-1-6
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1-4696-0024-2
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0-8078-3813-6
Content:
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 1920's and 1930's, 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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8078-7285-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8078-3582-X
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1120513
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