Radical Moves (eBook)

Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age

Lara Putnam (Autor)

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2013
336 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-3813-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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 city streets of Brooklyn. But in the 1920s and 1930s, 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 readers from tin-roof tropical dancehalls to the elegant black-owned ballrooms of Jazz Age Harlem to trace the roots of the black-internationalist and anticolonial movements that would remake the twentieth century.From Trinidad to 136th Street, these were years of great dreams and righteous demands. Praying or jazzing, writing letters to the editor or letters home, Caribbean men and women tried on new ideas about the collective. The popular culture of black internationalism they created from Marcus Garveys UNIA to regge dances, Rastafarianism, and Joe Louiss worldwide fandom still echoes in the present.

Autor

Lara Putnam is associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh and author of The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.1.2013
• Zusatzinfo: 11 halftones, 3 maps, 3 tables, notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 1938 Labour Rebellion • Afro-Caribbeans and black nationalism • anti-black immigration restriction • Black Internationalism • black music in the Caribbean • British Caribbean migration • British Caribbean migration to the United States • British West Indian migration • British West Indian migration to New York • British West Indians and radical politics • British West Indians in Harlem • Caribbean Labour Rebellions • Caribbean return migration • Circum-Caribbean migration • Claudia Jones • decolonization in the British Caribbean • El Callao Venezuela • Garveyism in Central America • history of obeah • history of reggae dance • imperial policy in the Caribbean • interwar black press • Jamaican/Barbadian immigration/migration to Harlem/Brooklyn/New York/United States • jazz in the Caribbean • Limon Costa Rica • Maida Springer • Malcolm X’s mother • Malcolm X’s mother • Marcus Garvey • obeah in Costa Rica • obeah in Panama • obeah in Trinidad • Panama Tribune • race and British empire • race and decolonization • shay-shay dance in the Caribbean • state racism and immigration law • Stokely Carmichael’s mother • Stokely Carmichael’s mother • Sydney Young • transatlantic black press • U.N.I.A. in Central America • U.N.I.A. in the Caribbean • xenophobic nationalism and immigration law • xenophobic nationalism and immigration law /
• ISBN-10: 0-8078-3813-6 / 0807838136
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-3813-6 / 9780807838136