Empire's Guestworkers: Haitian Migrants in Cuba During the Age of US Occupation

ISBN-13: 9781107127692 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 326 str.

Matthew Casey

Opis

An innovative analysis of Haitian migrant experience, central to the exploration of race, politics, and development during US military occupation in Cuba.

Recenzje

'Empire's Guestworkers is an impressive piece of scholarship, both analytically and methodologically.' Matthew Davidson, SX Salon (smallaxe.net)

Spis treści

1. Making the Haitian-Cuban border and creating temporary migrants; 2. Leaving US occupied Haiti; 3. Living and working in Cuban sugar plantations; 4. Picking coffee and building families in Eastern Cuba; 5. Creating religious communities, serving spirits and decrying sorcery; 6. Mobilizing politically and debating race and empire in Cuban cities; 7. Returning to Haiti and the aftermath of US occupation.