African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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332 p, Contents: 1. Introduction 2. A Concise History of Suriname and Marienburg 3. The Immigration of British Indians and Javanese 4. Demographic Impact of British Indians and Javanese Indentured Immigrants 5. Protection, Power, and Control 6. The Plantation Hierarchy 7. Tasks, Hours, and Wages 8. Social Provisions: Free Housing and Medical Care, and the Plantation Shop 9. Social, Religious, and Cultural Life of the Asian Immigrants 10. Resistance App. 1. Annual Immigration of British Indians and Javanese in Suriname App. 2. Labor on Sugar Plantations in Suriname, 1890 1930.
282 p., Challenges how critical scholarship on race and racism in Latin America has traditionally understood racial subalterns in Cuba and Puerto Rico as people who are prevented from acting as black political subjects because of the hegemonic power of discourses of nationhood premised on ideas of mestizaje and racial fraternity. By providing an intellectual history of several important yet largely ignored Cuban and Puerto Rican activists intellectuals of color who lived and worked between the Caribbean and the U.S. at the turn of the 20th century, the author shows that instead of being tricked by creole elite national narratives, they attempted to redefine ideas of nationhood to challenge racism, colonialism, and imperialism at local, national, and transnational levels.
