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Author:

Howard, Philip A., 1957-

Title:

Black labor, white sugar : Caribbean braceros and their struggle for power in the Cuban sugar industry / Philip A. Howard.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xii, 303 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Sugar workers--Cuba--History.
Foreign workers, Haitian--Cuba--History.
Foreign workers, Jamaican--Cuba--History.
Sugarcane industry--History.--Cuba--History.
Haitians--Cuba--Politics and government.
Jamaicans--Cuba--Politics and government.
Labor movement--Cuba--History.
Protest movements--Cuba--History.
Cuba--Economic conditions.
Cuba--Social aspects.--Social aspects.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-289) and index.

Contents:

Adopting Black Caribbean workers -- Subjugation of the braceros : life and work on the sugar estates -- Social strategies of resistance : the disclosed and undisclosed lives of Black Caribbean braceros -- The evolution and expression of a worker consciousness : Black Caribbean protest, resistance, and the Cuban labor movement -- Garveyism without Garvey : a counter-ideology in the Black Caribbean communities -- Multiple dominant ideologies : xenophobia and Cuban nationalism in the neocolonial context of Black Caribbean immigration -- Epilogue.

ISBN:

0807159522 (cloth : alkaline paper)
9780807159521 (cloth : alkaline paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)894313599

LCCN:

2014036417

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)