Author: Velma Newton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
"Highlights the role of West Indies in building the Panama Railroad and Canal to link the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Shows that the migration to Panama had more far-reaching demographic and economic consequences on the British West Indies than is generally contributed to the still popular conception of extra-regional migration as one of the best avenues to economic nd social betterment. Also examines the social position of th Panamanians of West Indian descent and concludes that their assimilation was still not complete even up to the end of the 20th century."--P. [4] of cover.
The Silver Men
Author: Velma Newton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
"Highlights the role of West Indies in building the Panama Railroad and Canal to link the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Shows that the migration to Panama had more far-reaching demographic and economic consequences on the British West Indies than is generally contributed to the still popular conception of extra-regional migration as one of the best avenues to economic nd social betterment. Also examines the social position of th Panamanians of West Indian descent and concludes that their assimilation was still not complete even up to the end of the 20th century."--P. [4] of cover.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
"Highlights the role of West Indies in building the Panama Railroad and Canal to link the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Shows that the migration to Panama had more far-reaching demographic and economic consequences on the British West Indies than is generally contributed to the still popular conception of extra-regional migration as one of the best avenues to economic nd social betterment. Also examines the social position of th Panamanians of West Indian descent and concludes that their assimilation was still not complete even up to the end of the 20th century."--P. [4] of cover.
The West Indian in Panama
Author: Lancelot S. Lewis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
West Indian Workers on the Panama Canal
Author: Raymond Allan Davis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discrimination in employment
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discrimination in employment
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Black Labor on a White Canal
Author: Michael L. Conniff
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Category : Black people
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Black people
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Dying to Better Themselves
Author: Olive Senior
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789766404574
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The epic story of the involvement of the tiny islands of the West Indies in providing the work force for the construction of the Panama Canal (1904-1914) and before that, the Panama Railroad (1850-1855), and the French attempt under de Lesseps to build the Panama Canal (1881-1889). Written by a West Indian, the book allows the voices of the participants to tell their stories alongside the official accounts.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789766404574
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The epic story of the involvement of the tiny islands of the West Indies in providing the work force for the construction of the Panama Canal (1904-1914) and before that, the Panama Railroad (1850-1855), and the French attempt under de Lesseps to build the Panama Canal (1881-1889). Written by a West Indian, the book allows the voices of the participants to tell their stories alongside the official accounts.
Between Alienation and Citizenship
Author: Trevor O'Reggio
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761832379
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Slight revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago.
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761832379
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Slight revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago.
"Colón Man a Come"
Author: Rhonda D. Frederick
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739108918
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Col-n Man a Come Mythographies of Panam Canal Migration examines the imaginable truths that inform the use of Col-n Men in literature, song, and memoir, thereby revealing analyses of the Panam Canal project that have not been examined by existing scholarship.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739108918
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Col-n Man a Come Mythographies of Panam Canal Migration examines the imaginable truths that inform the use of Col-n Men in literature, song, and memoir, thereby revealing analyses of the Panam Canal project that have not been examined by existing scholarship.
Letter from Governor of Panama Canal to War Department re: West Indian Employees, October 21, 1919
Author: Chester Harding (1866)
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Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Silver Women
Author: Joan Flores-Villalobos
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512823643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The construction of the Panama Canal is typically viewed as a marvel of American ingenuity. What is less visible, and less understood, is the project’s dependence on the labor of Black migrant women. The Silver Women shifts the focus of this monumental endeavor to the West Indian women who travelled to Panama, inviting readers to place women’s intimate lives, choices, grief, and ambition at the center of the economic and geopolitical transformation created by the construction of the Panama Canal and U.S. imperial expansion. Joan Flores-Villalobos argues that Black West Indian women made the canal construction possible by providing the indispensable everyday labor of social reproduction. West Indian women built a provisioning economy that fed, housed, and cared for the segregated Black West Indian labor force, in effect subsidizing the construction effort and the racial calculus that separated pay in silver for Black workers and gold for white Americans. But while also subject to racial discrimination and segregation, West Indian women mostly worked outside the umbrella of U.S. canal authorities. They did not hold contracts, had little access to official services and wages, and received pay in both silver and gold. From this position, they found ways to skirt, and at times subvert, the legal, moral, and economic parameters imperial authorities sought to impose on the migrant workforce. West Indian women developed important strategies of claims-making, kinship, community building, and market adaptation that helped them navigate the contradictions and violence of U.S. empire. In the meantime, these strategies of social reproduction nurtured further West Indian migrations, linking Panama to places like Harlem and Santiago de Cuba. The Silver Women is thus a history of Black women’s labor of social reproduction as integral to U.S. imperial infrastructure, the global Caribbean diaspora, and women’s own survival.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512823643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The construction of the Panama Canal is typically viewed as a marvel of American ingenuity. What is less visible, and less understood, is the project’s dependence on the labor of Black migrant women. The Silver Women shifts the focus of this monumental endeavor to the West Indian women who travelled to Panama, inviting readers to place women’s intimate lives, choices, grief, and ambition at the center of the economic and geopolitical transformation created by the construction of the Panama Canal and U.S. imperial expansion. Joan Flores-Villalobos argues that Black West Indian women made the canal construction possible by providing the indispensable everyday labor of social reproduction. West Indian women built a provisioning economy that fed, housed, and cared for the segregated Black West Indian labor force, in effect subsidizing the construction effort and the racial calculus that separated pay in silver for Black workers and gold for white Americans. But while also subject to racial discrimination and segregation, West Indian women mostly worked outside the umbrella of U.S. canal authorities. They did not hold contracts, had little access to official services and wages, and received pay in both silver and gold. From this position, they found ways to skirt, and at times subvert, the legal, moral, and economic parameters imperial authorities sought to impose on the migrant workforce. West Indian women developed important strategies of claims-making, kinship, community building, and market adaptation that helped them navigate the contradictions and violence of U.S. empire. In the meantime, these strategies of social reproduction nurtured further West Indian migrations, linking Panama to places like Harlem and Santiago de Cuba. The Silver Women is thus a history of Black women’s labor of social reproduction as integral to U.S. imperial infrastructure, the global Caribbean diaspora, and women’s own survival.
The West Indian in Panama (black Labor in Panama, 1850-1914)
Author: Lancelot Sebastian Lewis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description