Download or read book The West Indian in Panama written by Lancelot S. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The West Indian in Panama black Labor in Panama 1850 1914 written by Lancelot Sebastian Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Silver Men written by Velma Newton and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of the Invisible Black Hercules written by Khemani Gibson and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the 1850s, less than twenty years after the abolition of slavery in the British West Indies, black West Indians began to exercise their newfound freedom by choosing to migrate to the Isthmus of Panama to start new lives and search for economic opportunities. Low wages, the lack of job opportunities and land ownership, and disenfranchisement inspired West Indians to seek other labor opportunities outside of the confines of their islands starting in 1881 with the French attempt of constructing the Panama Canal. When the French failed, the relatively young United States stepped in to finish the project. Although global politics are important, this project highlights the agency of the West Indian laborers that saw Panama as a land of economic opportunity despite the marginalization, racism, and exploitation they faced. The fortitude of the West Indians has not been studied yet it provides great insight into the men that made the construction of the Panama Canal possible. This work charts the West Indian immigrants experience in Panama to validate the importance of understanding a marginalized population in the larger stories of empire and the global economy. The departure from the tradition political history that surrounds the Panama Canal changes the conversation to focus more on the individual agency that West Indians exhibited throughout their time in Panama and how this agency allowed for the creation of a unique communal enclave and identity in Panama. Furthermore, it illuminates the important details concerning what happens to the West Indian community once the Canal is completed in 1914. Taking a transnational approach, this project explores how West Indian ambition allowed West Indians to reimagine their freedom and economic opportunity in the changing political and imperial dynamics of the Caribbean and Latin America.
Download or read book Black Labor on a White Canal written by Michael L. Conniff and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book West Indian Women in the Panama Canal Zone 1904 1914 written by Joan Victoria Flores Villalobos and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Col n Man a Come written by Rhonda D. Frederick and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book African Diaspora in the Cultures of Latin America the Caribbean and the United States written by Persephone Braham and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars of the African Americas are sometimes segregated from one another by region or period, by language, or by discipline. Bringing together essays on fashion, the visual arts, film, literature, and history, this volume shows how our understanding of the African diaspora in the Americas can be enriched by crossing disciplinary boundaries to recontextualize images, words, and thoughts as part of a much greater whole. Diaspora describes dispersion, but also the seeding, sowing, or scattering of spores that take root and grow, maturing and adapting within new environments. The examples of diasporic cultural production explored in this volume reflect on loss and dispersal, but they also constitute expansive and dynamic intellectual and artistic production, neither wholly African nor wholly American (in the hemispheric sense), whose resonance deeply inflects all of the Americas. African Diaspora in the Cultures of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States represents a call for multidisciplinary, collaborative, and complex approaches to the subject of the African diaspora.
Download or read book The Panama Railroad written by Peter Pyne and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1848, a group of ambitious American entrepreneurs decided to embark upon a remarkable engineering feat—they would build a railroad across the Isthmus of Panama to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The creation of the Panama Railroad ranks as one the boldest capitalist ventures in the 19th century, and would require battling climate, disease, and geography before it was completed. On a human level, it would transform the destiny of thousands of lives in America, Panama, the West Indies, and Asia, as well as in Ireland. The Panama Railroad provides the first comprehensive account of the railroad's construction, going well beyond the known stories of the titans of industry involved with its construction, such as William Aspinwall, George Law, and Cornelius Vanderbilt. It seeks to correct false claims and address numerous gaps in past histories, and in particular showcases the stories of the ordinary Irish workers willing to travel halfway around the globe to pursue an uncertain future and a perilous undertaking in the hopes of escaping the devastating aftermath of the Great Famine of 1845–49.
Download or read book The Canal Builders written by Julie Greene and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Panama Canal told from the perspectives of its construction workers discusses Theodore Roosevelt's unpopular vision for Panama, the extensive resources that went into its building, and its role as a symbol of American power.
Download or read book Panama Money in Barbados 1900 1920 written by Bonham C. Richardson and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2004-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Black Labor on a White Canal written by Michael L. Conniff and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Panama in Black written by Kaysha Corinealdi and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-08 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Panama in Black, Kaysha Corinealdi traces the multigenerational activism of Afro-Caribbean Panamanians as they forged diasporic communities in Panama and the United States throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on a rich array of sources including speeches, yearbooks, photographs, government reports, radio broadcasts, newspaper editorials, and oral histories, Corinealdi presents the Panamanian isthmus as a crucial site in the making of an Afro-diasporic world that linked cities and towns like Colón, Kingston, Panamá City, Brooklyn, Bridgetown, and La Boca. In Panama, Afro-Caribbean Panamanians created a diasporic worldview of the Caribbean that privileged the potential of Black innovation. Corinealdi maps this innovation by examining the longest-running Black newspaper in Central America, the rise of civic associations created to counter policies that stripped Afro-Caribbean Panamanians of citizenship, the creation of scholarship-granting organizations that supported the education of Black students, and the emergence of national conferences and organizations that linked anti-imperialism and Black liberation. By showing how Afro-Caribbean Panamanians used these methods to navigate anti-Blackness, xenophobia, and white supremacy, Corinealdi offers a new mode of understanding activism, community, and diaspora formation.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Latin American History written by Jose C. Moya and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Oxford Handbook comprehensively examines the field of Latin American history.
Download or read book Panama and the United States written by Michael L. Conniff and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Panama assumed control of the Panama Canal in 1999, its relations with the United States became those of a friendly neighbor. In this third edition, Michael L. Conniff describes Panama’s experience as owner-operator of one of the world’s premier waterways and the United States’ adjustment to its new, smaller role. He finds that Panama has done extremely well with the canal and economic growth but still struggles to curb corruption, drug trafficking, and money laundering. Historically, Panamanians aspired to have their country become a crossroads of the world, while Americans sought to tame a vast territory and protect their trade and influence around the globe. The building of the Panama Canal (1904–14) locked the two countries in their parallel quests but failed to satisfy either fully. Drawing on a wide array of sources, Conniff considers the full range of factors—political, social, strategic, diplomatic, economic, and intellectual—that have bound the two countries together.
Download or read book Wolf Tracks written by Peter A. Szok and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How red devil buses and self-taught artists have enlivened one Latin American nation
Download or read book Mimesis and Alterity written by Michael Taussig and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ambitious and accomplished work, Taussig explores the complex and interwoven concepts of mimesis, the practice of imitation, and alterity, the opposition of Self and Other. The book moves from the nineteenth-century invention of mimetically capacious machines, such as the camera, to the fable of colonial ‘first contact’ and the alleged mimetic power of ‘primitives’. Twenty years after the original publication, Taussig revisits the work in a new preface which contextualises the impact of Mimesis and Alterity. Drawing on the ideas of Benjamin, Adorno and Horckheimer and ethnographic accounts of the Cuna, Taussig demonstrates how the history of mimesis is deeply tied to colonialism and the idea of alterity has become increasingly unstable. Vigorous and unorthodox, this cross-cultural discussion continues to deepen our understanding of the relationship between ethnography, racism and society.
