The silver women : how Black women's labor made the Panama Canal /

"The Panama Canal was realized as much through the exploitation of a racialized class of workers as it was by American ingenuity. What is less visible, and less understood, is the project's dependence on the domestic and care labor of Black migrant women, who were paid in silver rather tha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Flores-Villalobos, Joan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2023]
Colección:Politics and culture in modern America.
Temas:
Foreign workers, West Indian > Panama > History.
Women foreign workers > Panama > History.
Women, Black > Panama > History.
West Indians > Panama > History.
Foreign workers, West Indian.
West Indians.
Women, Black.
Women foreign workers.
Panama Canal (Panama) > History.
Canal Zone > History.
Canal Zone.
Panama.
Panama > Panama Canal.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Women of Silver and Gold
  • Chapter 1. The Land of Promise?
  • Chapter 2. "A Scandal on the Isthmus"
  • Chapter 3. A Moral Battleground
  • Chapter 4. Labor in the Domestic "Frontier"
  • Chapter 5. The Value of Death
  • Chapter 6. Private Honor and Public Lives in Panama City
  • Chapter 7. A Female Vanguard.

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