Black Labor Migration in Caribbean Guatemala, 1882-1923 /

Using primary and secondary sources as well as ethnographic data, Opie details the struggles of these workers who were ultimately inspired to organize by the ideas of Marcus Garvey. Regularly suffering class- and race-based attacks and persecution, black labourers frequently met such attacks with re...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Opie, Frederick Douglass
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Race relations.
Foreign workers.
African Americans.
Noirs americains > Guatemala > Histoire.
African Americans > Guatemala > History.
Foreign workers > Guatemala > History.
Guatemala.
Caribbean Area.
Caraïbes (Region) > Relations raciales > Histoire.
Caribbean Area > Race relations > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Historical context : race and labor in Guatemala
  • Race, resistance, and revolution in the late nineteenth century
  • Race relations on the early-twentieth-century Caribbean frontier
  • Revolvers, shotguns, machetes, and clubs : the strikes of 1909-1919
  • Labor radicalism on the Caribbean coast : Ladino mobilization in guatemala, 1920-1923
  • We depend on others too much : Garveyism and labor radicalism in the Caribbean Basin.

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