Radical Moves : Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age / / Lara Putnam

• Autore: Putnam Lara
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 2013; Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2013; ©2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 p.)
• Disciplina: 972.905/2
• Soggetto topico: Racism - Political aspects - History - 20th century; Emigration and immigration - Political aspects - History - 20th century; Anti-imperialist movements - History - 20th century; West Indians - Politics and government - 20th century; Black people - Politics and government - 20th century; West Indians - Social conditions - 20th century; Black people - Social conditions - 20th century; West Indians - Migrations - History - 20th century; Black people - West Indies, British - Migrations - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: West Indies, British Emigration and immigration History 20th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Radical Moves
• ISBN: 1-4696-0024-2; 0-8078-3813-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463105403321
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