Black labor migration in Caribbean Guatemala, 1882-1923
By: Frederick Douglass Opie ; foreword by Richard Greenwald and Timothy J. Minchin.
Series: Working in the Americas
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
ISBN-13: 9780813033716
Subjects: Alien labor -- Guatemala -- History; African Americans -- Guatemala -- History; Caribbean Area -- Race relations -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Historical context : race and labor in Guatemala; title: Race, resistance, and revolution in the late nineteenth century; title: Race relations on the early-twentieth-century caribbean frontier; title: Revolvers, shotguns, machetes, and clubs : the strikes of 1909-1919; title: Labor radicalism on the Caribbean coast : ladino mobilization in guatemala, 1920-1923; title: We depend on others too much : Garveyism and labor radicalism in the Caribbean Basin.