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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Race, Nation, and West Indian Immigration to Honduras, 1890-1940

Race, Nation, and West Indian Immigration to Honduras, 1890-1940

Chambers, Glenn A.

Hardcover

Caribbean HistoryCentral American HistoryImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 0807135577
ISBN13: 9780807135570
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: May 24 2010
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

At the turn of the twentieth century, Honduras witnessed the expansion of its banana industry and the development of the United Fruit Company and Standard Fruit into multinational corporations with significant political and economic influence in Latin America and the Caribbean. These companies relied heavily on an imported labor force, thousands of West Indian workers, whose arrival in Honduras immediately sparked anti-black and anti-immigrant sentiment throughout the country. Glenn A. Chambers examines the West Indian immigrant community in Honduras through the development of the country's fruit industry, revealing that West Indians fought to maintain their identities as workers, Protestants, blacks, and English speakers in the midst of popular Latin American nationalistic notions of mestizaje, or mixed-race identity.

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