Empire's guest workers Haitian migrants in Cuba during the age of US occupation

Haitian seasonal migration to Cuba is central to narratives about race, national development, and US imperialism in the early twentieth-century Caribbean. Filling a major gap in the literature, this innovative study reconstructs Haitian guestworkers' lived experiences as they moved among the ru...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Casey, Matthew
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2017
Series:Afro-Latin America
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Collection: Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Making the Haitian-Cuban border and creating temporary migrants
  • Leaving U.S. occupied Haiti
  • Living and working on Cuban sugar plantations
  • Picking coffee and building families in Eastern Cuba
  • Creating religious communities, serving spirits and decrying sorcery
  • Mobilizing politically and debating race and empire in Cuban cities
  • Returning to Haiti and the aftermath of U.S. occupation
  • Epilogue enduring legacies and post-colonial divergences