Race and class in the Colonial Bahamas, 1880-1960

The Bahamas in the post-emancipation periodBahamian society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: class, race, and ethnicity -- Gradual changes in the Bahamas, 1880-1914 -- World War I and prohibition -- The 1930s and the depression: tourism and restlessness -- World War II and the 1...

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1. Verfasser: Saunders, Gail (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Brereton, Bridget (VerfasserIn eines Vorworts)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Gainesville, Tallahassee, Tampa University Press of Florida 2016
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Zusammenfassung:The Bahamas in the post-emancipation periodBahamian society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: class, race, and ethnicity -- Gradual changes in the Bahamas, 1880-1914 -- World War I and prohibition -- The 1930s and the depression: tourism and restlessness -- World War II and the 1942 Nassau riot -- The formative years, 1950-1958: political organization, race, and protest -- The 1958 general strike and its aftermath -- Confronting a divided society.
Saunders shows that, although the Bahamas had class tensions in common with other British colonial lands, Bahamian racial tensions were not necessarily parallel to those across the West Indies so much as they mirrored those occurring in the U.S., with power and/or money consolidated in the hands of the white minority. She examines the nature of the Bahamian race and class relations and interactions between dominant groups--from whites, to people who identified as creole or mixed race, to liberated Africans--between the 1880s and the early 1960s
The Bahamas in the post-emancipation period -- Bahamian society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: class, race, and ethnicity -- Gradual changes in the Bahamas, 1880-1914 -- World War I and prohibition -- The 1930s and the depression: tourism and restlessness -- World War II and the 1942 Nassau riot -- The formative years, 1950-1958: political organization, race, and protest -- The 1958 general strike and its aftermath -- Confronting a divided society
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-358) and index
Beschreibung:xiii, 371 Seiten
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25 cm
ISBN:9780813062549
978-0-8130-6254-9
9780813064512
978-0-8130-6451-2