LEADER 02877nam 2200613 450 001 9910809684203321 005 20230126214325.0 010 $a0-8130-5155-X 010 $a0-8130-5578-4 035 $a(CKB)3710000000644187 035 $a(EBL)4508946 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001652828 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16427399 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001652828 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14863403 035 $a(PQKB)10652549 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4508946 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001597703 035 $a(OCoLC)946998929 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse53977 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4508946 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11207639 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL915598 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000644187 100 $a20160526h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRace and class in the colonial Bahamas $e1880-1960 /$fGail Saunders ; foreword by Bridget Brereton 210 1$aGainesville, Florida :$cUniversity Press of Florida,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (401 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8130-6254-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe Bahamas in the post-emancipation period -- Bahamian society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: class, race, and ethnicity -- Gradual changes in the Bahamas, 1880-1914 -- World War I and prohibition -- The 1930s and the depression: tourism and restlessness -- World War II and the 1942 Nassau riot -- The formative years, 1950-1958: political organization, race, and protest -- The 1958 general strike and its aftermath -- Confronting a divided society. 330 2 $aSaunders shows that, although the Bahamas had class tensions in common with other British colonial lands, Bahamian racial tensions were not necessarily parallel to those across the West Indies so much as they mirrored those occurring in the U.S., with power and/or money consolidated in the hands of the white minority. She examines the nature of the Bahamian race and class relations and interactions between dominant groups--from whites, to people who identified as creole or mixed race, to liberated Africans--between the 1880s and the early 1960s. 606 $aSocial classes$zBahamas$xHistory 607 $aBahamas$xRace relations$xHistory 607 $aBahamas$xSocial conditions$xHistory 607 $aBahamas$xHistory 615 0$aSocial classes$xHistory. 676 $a305.80097296 700 $aSaunders$b Gail$01158226 702 $aBrereton$b Bridget$f1946- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809684203321 996 $aRace and class in the colonial Bahamas$94009470 997 $aUNINA