López, Kathleen.
Chapell Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2013]
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Part of the series Envisioning Cuba;Envisioning Cuba.
Notes:
- In the mid-nineteenth century, Cuba’s infamous coolie trade brought well over 100,000 Chinese indentured laborers to its shores. Though subjected to abominable conditions, they were followed during subsequent decades by smaller numbers of merchants, craftsmen, and free migrants searching for better lives far from home. In a comprehensive, vibrant history that draws deeply on Chinese- and Spanish-language sources in both China and Cuba, Kathleen López explores the transition of the Chinese from indentured to free migrants, the formation of transnational communities, and the eventual incorporation of the Chinese into the Cuban citizenry during the first half of the twentieth century. Chinese Cubans shows how Chinese migration, intermarriage, and assimilation are central to Cuban history and national identity during a key period of transition from slave to wage labor and from colony to nation. On a broader level, López draws out implications for issues of race, national identity, and transnational migration, especially along the Pacific rim — Provided by publisher.
- In the mid-nineteenth century, Cuba’s infamous coolie trade brought well over 100,000 Chinese indentured laborers to its shores. Though subjected to abominable conditions, they were followed during subsequent decades by smaller numbers of merchants, craftsmen, and free migrants searching for better lives far from home. In a comprehensive, vibrant history that draws deeply on Chinese- and Spanish-language sources in both China and Cuba, Kathleen López explores the transition of the Chinese from indentured to free migrants, the formation of transnational communities, and the eventual incorporation of the Chinese into the Cuban citizenry during the first half of the twentieth century — Provided by publisher.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-316) and index.
- Introduction: A transnational history — From indentured to free. Coolies Free laborers Families and communities. — Migrants between empires and nations. Freedom fighters Yellow peril. — Transnational and national belonging. Transnational connections Chinese and Cubanidad Revolution and remigration — Chinese character glossary.
Subjects:
- Chinese — Cuba — History.
- Chinese — Cuba — Ethinic identity
- Contract labor — Cuba — History — 19th century.
- Community development — Cuba — History.
- Cuba — Emigration and immigration — History — 19th century.
- Cuba — Ethnic relations.
- HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba. bisacsh
- HISTORY / Latin America / General. bisacsh
Requested by Lansing, M