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Author:

Opie, Frederick Douglass.

Title:

Black labor migration in Caribbean Guatemala, 1882-1923 / Frederick Douglass Opie ; foreword by Richard Greenwald and Timothy J. Minchin.

Publisher:

University Press of Florida,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xii, 145 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Foreign workers--Guatemala--History.
African Americans--Guatemala--History.
Caribbean Area--History.--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [103]-138) and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Working in the Americas

ISBN:

0813033713 (alk. paper)
9780813033716 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)259265352

LCCN:

2009001966

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)