Black Labor Migration in Caribbean Guatemala, 1882–1923 [electronic resource] /
Opie, Frederick Douglass.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida,
c2009.
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.
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [103]-138) and index.
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.
Description based on print version record.
African Americans
Foreign workers