Identity, Class, and Nation: Black Immigrant Workers, Cuban Communism, and the Sugar Insurgency, 1925-1934

Carr, Barry

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“…Barry Carr, Marc McLeod, and, more recently, Matthew Casey, have written persuasively about these issues in a way that asserts the importance of the Haitian presence. 57 Similar studies have been done on contemporary Haitian migration to the French Antilles and the Dominican Republic. 58 In addition, the sophistication in microhistory has forced Caribbean historians to follow their subjects as they traverse the boundaries of the Atlantic world.…”

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Footprints on the Sea: Finding Haiti in Caribbean Historiography

Smith¹

2014

Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism

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The historians of these territories have not hesitated to generalise and have sometimes generalised extremely rashly from principles by no means based upon the findings of historical empiricism. -Elsa Goveia, A Study on the Historiography of the British West IndiesHaiti is not weird. It is the fiction of Haitian exceptionalism that is weird. -Michel-Rolph Trouillot, "The Odd and the Ordinary"The impressive advances-in both quality and coverage-in historical writing on the Caribbean over the past half century has, to a certain extent, mirrored changes in the region over the same period. Higher rates of historical production have followed a similar increase in awareness of the Caribbean as a space of profound international impact in areas beyond the academy. The massive reach of Caribbean popular music, for example, has joined with traditional interests in the region's triumphs and catastrophes in attracting researchers from a range of scholarly fields. Perhaps most encouraging is the acceptance of the islands of the Caribbean as part of an integrated Atlantic world in which multiple flows through multiple channels led to the strong presence of the Caribbean in the global space. For historians of the Caribbean this attention has reinforced the importance that the region has always occupied, even if this importance has sometimes been denied. The study of the past is now not limited to the boundaries of the nation-state but involves greater degrees of Small AxePublished by Duke University Press

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Footprints on the Sea: Finding Haiti in Caribbean Historiography

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2014

Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism

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“…A central concern resonating through the Ateneo at the time related to the recent rise of reggaetón artists who were accused, rather resentfully, of siphoning away what limited resources and fan-base local raperos had struggled to build. Historically indebted to the Afro-Caribbean by way of circulatory labor immigration and commerce between Haiti, Jamaica, and Barbados (Carr 1998), the port of Santiago and the broader Oriente region have long been celebrated (or alternately scorned) as the more caribeñoread darker-region of the island. Given this, it is no surprise that reggaetón's Caribbean arc first found receptive grounding in Santiago.…”

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Negro Soy Yo

2018

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This book has been a long-awaited endeavor, as many can attest. All said, there are numerous individuals who have lent collaborative time, intellect, guidance, and political investment to bringing this book to fruition, and I am deeply grateful and indebted to them for this. First and foremost are my friends, colleagues, and others in Cuba whose lives, work, and art inspired this project and for whom this book is ultimately dedicated. In Havana these include artists Magia López (and her family, especially her mother, Caridad), Alexey Rodríguez (and his parents, Celso and

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“…Its plantation economy had already been short of labor before the abolition of slavery in 1886, but thereafter the shortage became even greater. The sugar industry was growing so fast that it needed more hands: between 1902 and 1930 about 800,000 immigrants arrived from spain, while from 1917 onward the number of spanish laborers declined and increasing numbers of west Indians and haitians had to be allowed in (Carr 1998, de la Fuente 1997:33, mcleod 1998.…”

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Two Islands, One Commodity: Cuba, Java, and the Global Sugar Trade (1790-1930)

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Bosma

2012

New West Indian Guide

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Sugar had become, by the eighteenth century, a global commodity. Originating in East Asia, plantations in the Americas fed the growing taste for its use in Europe, with its consumption increasingly popularised. The 1791 Revolution in Saint Domingue (Haiti) and the 1807 British abolition of the slave trade prompted shifts in the epicentres of sugar, the most important of these being arguably to Cuba and Java. These two fertile islands saw the burgeoning development of sugar-plantation systems with major inputs of foreign capital and forced labour. In the process the two islands each, respectively, became central to the very much truncated Spanish and Dutch colonial empires left after the Napoleonic wars and the Latin American wars of liberation; and by the mid-nineteenth century in the case of Cuba, and by the late nineteenth century in the case of Java, they had been catapulted to global sugar pre-eminence. There has been an abundance of study on the two islands each in their own right, but none systematically examines their parallel trajectories. Yet the question arises as to how sugar came to dominate the agriculture, industry and trade of these two islands; and how these two islands in particular, in two different colonial systems and parts of the world, should rise to sugar pre-eminence in the way they did and when they did. Are there connections and similarities between the two that help explain this phenomenon? This article analyses the conditions that led Java and Cuba to become the prime cane-sugar exporters of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Initiative for this came from the linkages between their dominant elites and the transnational, transimperial networks of trade and capital. This furthered the stimulation of technological and scientific innovation in both, enabled not only through the introduction of the latest advances in machinery and method, but also the immigration of technical skilled workers from Europe and North America. New sugar frontiers were opened that offered room for expansion at a time of rapidly growing demand for sugar in Europe; but for this to occur, radical changes needed to be made to the system of land ownership and use. At the same solutions were needed for how to mobilise and control sufficient labour without jeopardising the colonial order. This question eventually came to dominate the political system through which social control could be ensured – particularly, because Cuba and Java came to be ever more closely tied to global capital and trade; and both islands become dominated by sugar while at the same time coming to dominate global sugar production.

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Identity, Class, and Nation: Black Immigrant Workers, Cuban Communism, and the Sugar Insurgency, 1925-1934

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Footprints on the Sea: Finding Haiti in Caribbean Historiography

Footprints on the Sea: Finding Haiti in Caribbean Historiography

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