Black labor, white sugar
Subtitle: Caribbean braceros and their struggle for power in the Cuban sugar industry
By: Philip A. Howard
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780807159521
Subjects: Politics and government; Protest movements; Social aspects; Jamaican Foreign workers; Sugar workers; Jamaicans; Sugarcane industry; Haitian Foreign workers; Haitians; Labor movement; Emigration and immigration; Economic conditions; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-289) and index.
Table of contents: title: Adopting Black Caribbean workers; title: Subjugation of the braceros : life and work on the sugar estates; title: Social strategies of resistance : the disclosed and undisclosed lives of Black Caribbean braceros; title: The evolution and expression of a worker consciousness : Black Caribbean protest, resistance, and the Cuban labor movement; title: Garveyism without Garvey : a counter-ideology in the Black Caribbean communities; title: Multiple dominant ideologies : xenophobia and Cuban nationalism in the neocolonial context of Black Caribbean immigration; title: Epilogue.