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Subjects or citizens [electronic resource] : British Caribbean workers in Cuba, 1900-1960 / Robert Whitney and Graciela Chailloux Laffita.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2013 2015); Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida, [2013] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (1 PDF (x, 237 pages) :) illustrations, mapsISBN:
  • 9780813048574
  • 0813048575
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 972.9 22
LOC classification:
  • F1789.A1 W384 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Who are the Cuban people? -- 2. "It would be better for us to have been in slavery": The British Caribbean diaspora, empire, and labor in Cuba and the Dominican Republic, 1920-1950 -- 3. "Are we British subjects of His Britannic Majesty or objects?": British subjects and the "Right to have rights," 1920-1950 -- 4. Cuba for Cubans: the making of a Cuban working class, 1937-1950 -- 5. "From my house to my lodge and then to my church": British Caribbean communities and organizations in Cuba -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Cuba is widely recognized as a major hub of the transatlantic Hispanic and African diasporas throughout the colonial period. Less well known is that during the first half of the twentieth century it was also the center of circum-Caribbean diasporas with over 200,000 immigrants arriving mainly from Jamaica and Haiti. The migration of British West Indians was a critical part of the economic and historical development of the island during the twentieth century as many of them went to work on sugar plantations.
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Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-226) and index.

List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Who are the Cuban people? -- 2. "It would be better for us to have been in slavery": The British Caribbean diaspora, empire, and labor in Cuba and the Dominican Republic, 1920-1950 -- 3. "Are we British subjects of His Britannic Majesty or objects?": British subjects and the "Right to have rights," 1920-1950 -- 4. Cuba for Cubans: the making of a Cuban working class, 1937-1950 -- 5. "From my house to my lodge and then to my church": British Caribbean communities and organizations in Cuba -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Cuba is widely recognized as a major hub of the transatlantic Hispanic and African diasporas throughout the colonial period. Less well known is that during the first half of the twentieth century it was also the center of circum-Caribbean diasporas with over 200,000 immigrants arriving mainly from Jamaica and Haiti. The migration of British West Indians was a critical part of the economic and historical development of the island during the twentieth century as many of them went to work on sugar plantations.

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