The West Indians of Costa Rica : race, class, and the integration of an ethnic minority /

"The Jamaicans, Barbadians, and other West Indians who migrated to Costa Rica at the turn of the twentieth century found themselves in a country that prides itself on its Spanish and "white settler" origins. In The West Indians of Costa Rica Ronald Harpelle examines the ways in which...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harpelle, Ronald N., 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2001.
Colección:McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. 10.
Temas:
1900-1999
Geschichte 1900-1950.
West Indians > Costa Rica > Limón (Province) > History > 20th century.
Black people > Costa Rica > Limón (Province) > History > 20th century.
Foreign workers, West Indian > Costa Rica > Limón (Province) > History > 20th century.
Racism > Costa Rica > History > 20th century.
Black people > Cultural assimilation > Costa Rica > Limón (Province) > History > 20th century.
Antillais > Costa Rica > Histoire.
Racisme > Costa Rica > Histoire > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Black Studies (Global)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
HISTORY > Latin America > Central America.
Black people
Black people > Cultural assimilation
Foreign workers, West Indian
Race relations
Racism
West Indians
Einwanderung
Limón (Costa Rica : Province) > Race relations.
Costa Rica > Relations interethniques > Histoire.
Limón (Costa Rica : Province) > Relations raciales.
Costa Rica
Costa Rica > Limón (Province)
Westinder.
Electronic books.
History
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Limon and the Caribbean: from railway construction to banana production
  • Banana boom: expanding plantations and labour management, 1899-1914
  • Defending empires: west indians and united fruit go to war
  • Dependence, depression, and dislocation, 1922-34
  • Confrontation and accommodation: silence in the face of discrimination
  • Class divisions and internal dissent
  • The "Africanization" of Costa Rica: racism and reaction
  • The crisis of identity: west indian responses to assimilation
  • Pounding at the door: civil war and the modification of the electoral base
  • Conclusion: the evolution of an Afro-Costa RIcan subculture.

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