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Subjects or citizens : British Caribbean workers in Cuba, 1900-1960 / Robert Whitney and Graciela Chailloux Laffita.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resource (249 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781299964778
  • 9780813046723
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • F1789 .S835 2013
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
"It Would Be Better for Us to Have Been in Slavery": The British Caribbean Diaspora, Empire, and Labor in Cuba and the Dominican Republic, 1920-1950 -- "Are We British Subjects of His Britannic Majesty or Objexts?": British Subjects and the "Right to Have Rights," 1920-1950 -- Cuba for Cubans: The Making of a Cuban Working Class, 1937-1950 -- "From My House to My Lodge and Then to My Church": British Caribbean Communities and Organizations in Cuba -- Conclusion.
Subject: "Cuba is widely recognized as a major hub of the transatlantic Hispanic and African diasporas throughout the colonial period. Less well known is that during the first half of the twentieth century it was also the center of circum-Caribbean diasporas with over 200,000 immigrants arriving mainly from Jamaica and Haiti. The migration of British West Indians was a critical part of the economic and historical development of the island during the twentieth century as many of them went to work on sugar plantations. Using never-before-consulted oral histories and correspondence, Robert Whitney and Graciela Chailloux Laffita examine this British Caribbean diaspora and chronicle how the immigrants came to Cuba, the living and working conditions they experienced, and how they both contributed to and remained separate from Cuban culture, forging a unique identity that was not just proudly Cuban but also proudly Caribbean"--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Who Are the Cuban People? -- "It Would Be Better for Us to Have Been in Slavery": The British Caribbean Diaspora, Empire, and Labor in Cuba and the Dominican Republic, 1920-1950 -- "Are We British Subjects of His Britannic Majesty or Objexts?": British Subjects and the "Right to Have Rights," 1920-1950 -- Cuba for Cubans: The Making of a Cuban Working Class, 1937-1950 -- "From My House to My Lodge and Then to My Church": British Caribbean Communities and Organizations in Cuba -- Conclusion.

"Cuba is widely recognized as a major hub of the transatlantic Hispanic and African diasporas throughout the colonial period. Less well known is that during the first half of the twentieth century it was also the center of circum-Caribbean diasporas with over 200,000 immigrants arriving mainly from Jamaica and Haiti. The migration of British West Indians was a critical part of the economic and historical development of the island during the twentieth century as many of them went to work on sugar plantations. Using never-before-consulted oral histories and correspondence, Robert Whitney and Graciela Chailloux Laffita examine this British Caribbean diaspora and chronicle how the immigrants came to Cuba, the living and working conditions they experienced, and how they both contributed to and remained separate from Cuban culture, forging a unique identity that was not just proudly Cuban but also proudly Caribbean"--Publisher description.

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