| #637828 in Books | The University of North Carolina Press | 2013-01-07 | 2013-01-07 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.20 x.84 x6.10l,1.07 | File type: PDF | 336 pages | |||Radical Moves is splendid, engagingly written, and keenly researched.--Journal of American History||
Putnam makes a range of important interventions beyond the study of jazz.--Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History|| <
In the generations after emancipation, hundreds of thousands of African-descended working-class men and women left their homes in the British Caribbean to seek opportunity abroad: in the goldfields of Venezuela and the cane fields of Cuba, the canal construction in Panama, and the bustling city streets of Brooklyn. But in the 1920s and 1930s, racist nativism and a brutal cascade of antiblack immigration laws swept the hemisphere. Facing borders and barriers as never befo...
You easily download any file type for your device.Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age | Lara Putnam. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
