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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Opie, Frederick Douglass
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary: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 resistance. Their leverage - being able to shut down the railroad - was crucially important to the revolutionary movements in 1897 and 1920.
Physical Description:1 online resource (160 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780813045177

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