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Author:

Chambers, Glenn Anthony, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2008092603

Title:

From the Banana Zones to the Big Easy : West Indian and Central American immigration to New Orleans, 1910-1940 / Glenn A. Chambers.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xiv, 199 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Immigrants--New Orleans--New Orleans--History--20th century.
New Orleans (La.)--History--History--20th century.
Caribbean Area--History--History--20th century.
New Orleans (La.)--History--History--20th century.
New Orleans (La.)--Social conditions--20th century.
Emigration and immigration.
Immigrants.
Race relations.
Social conditions.
Caribbean Area.
Louisiana--New Orleans.
1900-1999
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

New Orleans and Latin America: Disparate Destinies and Shared Imaginaries in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- Criminalizing Blackness: Liberals, Modernization, and the West Indian "Problem" in Honduras -- West Indians and the Call to Citizenship in Early-Twentieth-Century New Orleans -- Inventing a New Life in the Midst of Uncertainty: Navigating the Racial Divide in New Orleans -- Capitalists, Student Activists, and Everyday Citizens: Negotiating a Latin American Identity in a "Diverse" Jim Crow City.

ISBN:

0807170496
9780807170496

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1090285563

LCCN:

2019008844

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)