Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age Debate now in paperback

now in paperback

and the process of constructing an identity amid constant degradation and poverty

is forced to choose a side in a civil war that threatens to destroy their beloved nation

“Courage cannot be counterfeited

Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age Debate now in paperbackIn 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