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The West Indians of Costa Rica: Race, Class, and the Integration of an Ethnic Minority

The West Indians of Costa Rica: Race, Class, and the Integration of an Ethnic Minority

Harpelle, Ronald N.

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Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History, Book 35

Central American HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

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ISBN10: 0773522816
ISBN13: 9780773522817
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: Feb 12 2002
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

A detailed social history of an ethnic minority's adaptation to life in Central America during the first half of the twentieth century.

The Jamaicans, Barbadians, and other West Indians who migrated to Costa Rica at the turn of the twentieth century found themselves in a country that prides itself on its Spanish and white settler origins. In The West Indians of Costa Rica Ronald Harpelle examines the ways in which people of African descent reacted to key issues of community and cultural survival from 1900 to 1950. He shows that the men and women who ventured to Costa Rica in search of opportunities in the banana industry arrived as West Indian sojourners but became Afro-Costa Ricans. The West Indians of Costa Rica is a story about choices: who made them, when, how, and what the consequences were.

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