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- Book Title
- Black Labor, White Sugar: Caribbean Braceros and Their Struggle f
- Publication Date
- 2015-06-15
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN
- 0807159522
- Subject Area
- Business & Economics, History, Social Science, Political Science
- Publication Name
- Black Labor, White Sugar : Caribbean Braceros and Their Struggle for Power in the Cuban Sugar Industry
- Item Length
- 9.1 in
- Publisher
- LSU
- Subject
- Labor & Industrial Relations, Emigration & Immigration, Economic Conditions, Industries / Agribusiness, Political Process / Political Advocacy, World / Caribbean & Latin American, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Labor, Caribbean & West Indies / General, Latin America / General
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 20.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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Early in the twentieth century, the Cuban sugarcane industry faced a labor crisis when Cuban and European workers balked at the inhumane conditions they endured in the cane fields. Rather than reforming their practices, sugar companies gained permission from the Cuban government to import thousands of black workers from other Caribbean colonies, primarily Haiti and Jamaica. Black Labor, White Sugar illuminates the story of these immigrants, their exploitation by the sugarcane companies, and the strategies they used to fight back. Philip A. Howard traces the socioeconomic and political circumstances in Haiti and Jamaica that led men to leave their homelands to cut, load, and haul sugarcane in Cuba. Once there, the field workers, or braceros, were subject to marginalization and even violence from the sugar companies, which used structures of race, ethnicity, color, and class to subjugate these laborers. Howard argues that braceros drew on their cultural identities-from concepts of home and family to spiritual worldviews-to interpret and contest their experiences in Cuba. They also fought against their exploitation in more overt ways. As labor conditions worsened in response to falling sugar prices, the principles of anarcho-syndicalism converged with the Pan-African philosophy of Marcus Garvey to foster the evolution of a protest culture among black Caribbean laborers. By the mid-1920s, this identity encouraged many braceros to participate in strikes that sought to improve wages as well as living and working conditions. The first full-length exploration of Haitian and Jamaican workers in the Cuban sugarcane industry, Black Labor, White Sugar examines the industry's abuse of thousands of black Caribbean immigrants, and the braceros' answering struggle for power and self-definition.
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Publisher
LSU
ISBN-10
0807159522
ISBN-13
9780807159521
eBay Product ID (ePID)
211861258
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Black Labor, White Sugar : Caribbean Braceros and Their Struggle for Power in the Cuban Sugar Industry
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Labor & Industrial Relations, Emigration & Immigration, Economic Conditions, Industries / Agribusiness, Political Process / Political Advocacy, World / Caribbean & Latin American, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Labor, Caribbean & West Indies / General, Latin America / General
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Business & Economics, History, Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
20.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2014-036417
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lc Classification Number
Hd8039.S86c853 2015
Copyright Date
2015
Dewey Decimal
331.5/440899607291
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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