Race and Class in the Colonial Bahamas, 1880-1960 /

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Saunders shows that, although the Bahamas had class tensions in common with other British colonial lands, Bahamian racial tensions were not necessarily parallel to those across the West Indies so much as they mirrored those occurring in the U.S., with power and/or money consolidated in the hands of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Saunders, Gail (Autor)
Otros Autores: Brereton, Bridget, 1946- (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Gesellschaft
Kolonie
Social conditions.
Social classes.
Race relations.
HISTORY > Caribbean & West Indies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Classes sociales > Bahamas > Histoire.
Social classes > Bahamas > History.
Bahamas
Bahamas.
Bahamas > Histoire.
Bahamas > Conditions sociales.
Bahamas > Relations raciales > Histoire.
Bahamas > History.
Bahamas > Social conditions > History.
Bahamas > Race relations > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Bahamas in the post-emancipation period
  • Bahamian society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: class, race, and ethnicity
  • Gradual changes in the Bahamas, 1880-1914
  • World War I and prohibition
  • The 1930s and the depression: tourism and restlessness
  • World War II and the 1942 Nassau riot
  • The formative years, 1950-1958: political organization, race, and protest
  • The 1958 general strike and its aftermath
  • Confronting a divided society.

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