Radical Moves

Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age

Nonfiction, History, Americas, Caribbean & West Indies, Latin America, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, African-American Studies
Cover of the book Radical Moves by Lara Putnam, The University of North Carolina Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Lara Putnam ISBN: 9780807838136
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press Publication: January 7, 2013
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press Language: English
Author: Lara Putnam
ISBN: 9780807838136
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Publication: January 7, 2013
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Language: English

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 before, Afro-Caribbean migrants rethought allegiances of race, class, and empire. In Radical Moves, Lara Putnam takes readers from tin-roof tropical dancehalls to the elegant black-owned ballrooms of Jazz Age Harlem to trace the roots of the black-internationalist and anticolonial movements that would remake the twentieth century.
From Trinidad to 136th Street, these were years of great dreams and righteous demands. Praying or "jazzing," writing letters to the editor or letters home, Caribbean men and women tried on new ideas about the collective. The popular culture of black internationalism they created--from Marcus Garvey's UNIA to "regge" dances, Rastafarianism, and Joe Louis's worldwide fandom--still echoes in the present.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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 before, Afro-Caribbean migrants rethought allegiances of race, class, and empire. In Radical Moves, Lara Putnam takes readers from tin-roof tropical dancehalls to the elegant black-owned ballrooms of Jazz Age Harlem to trace the roots of the black-internationalist and anticolonial movements that would remake the twentieth century.
From Trinidad to 136th Street, these were years of great dreams and righteous demands. Praying or "jazzing," writing letters to the editor or letters home, Caribbean men and women tried on new ideas about the collective. The popular culture of black internationalism they created--from Marcus Garvey's UNIA to "regge" dances, Rastafarianism, and Joe Louis's worldwide fandom--still echoes in the present.

More books from The University of North Carolina Press

Cover of the book Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times by Lara Putnam
Cover of the book Blessed with Tourists by Lara Putnam
Cover of the book Lillian Wald by Lara Putnam
Cover of the book Crafting Lives by Lara Putnam
Cover of the book Interpreting Our Heritage by Lara Putnam
Cover of the book The Inner Islands by Lara Putnam
Cover of the book The President's Kitchen Cabinet by Lara Putnam
Cover of the book Reforming Sodom by Lara Putnam
Cover of the book Wars within a War by Lara Putnam
Cover of the book Lafayette in Two Worlds by Lara Putnam
Cover of the book On Freedom and the Will to Adorn by Lara Putnam
Cover of the book The Politics of Freeing Markets in Latin America by Lara Putnam
Cover of the book Burdens of History by Lara Putnam
Cover of the book The Veiled Garvey by Lara Putnam
Cover of the book Ladies, Women, and Wenches by Lara Putnam
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy