Radical moves : Caribbean migrants and the politics of race in the jazz age /

"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 cane fields of Cuba, the canal construction in Panama, and the bustling cit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Putnam, Lara
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2013]
Subjects:	Blacks > West Indies, British > Migrations > History > 20th century. West Indians > Migrations > History > 20th century. Blacks > Social conditions > 20th century. West Indians > Social conditions > 20th century. Blacks > Politics and government > 20th century. West Indians > Politics and government > 20th century. Anti-imperialist movements > History > 20th century. West Indies, British > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century. Emigration and immigration > Political aspects > History > 20th century. Racism > Political aspects > History > 20th century.

Table of Contents:

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.