Putnam, Lara. Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2013.

== Summary ==
This book examines the
experiences of Caribbean migrants in the context of an emerging international
system (during the interwar years) of (national/racial) exclusionary policy.
These migrants believed they were “at the center of linked processes” that were
fundamental to the modern world: “the transformation of race, of nation, of
empire.” (3) British Caribbean Migrants were at the forefront of the creation
of a self-active “Our People” (“Great Negro Race”); lived at the moment when
relation of people to government was redefined as members of national
communities expanded; and, finally, were at the center of the crisis of the
British empire as it attempted to reconcile race and national identity.  Putnam
thus argues that “the making and unmaking of the circum-Caribbean migratory
sphere over the first four decades of the twentieth century was key to the 
emergence of globally influential black internationalism and to the course of
British Caribbean decolonization.” (8) Black internationalism did not move
outward from the U.S. but was shaped by the migratory experience as well as the
exclusionary practices of the state. Concomitantly, the migratory choices also
led to the creation of exclusionary state polices. The black
internationalist and anti-colonial movements that would shake the twentieth
century were rooted in this process and the experiences of ordinary men and
women not only in Harlem and Paris, but also the banana ports and dance halls
of the tropical circum-Caribbean.
Example: Black Press and new forms of dance and music in the Carribean formulated a race-based solidarity, although with diverging ideologies: Some understood it as a matter of race and blood; others argued that it was the international arrangement of political and economic power. 
See also: Vivek Bald, Thomas Guglielmo, Daniel Immerwahr (Race/Caste)