The Silver Women : : How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal / / Joan Flores-Villalobos.
The Panama Canal’s construction relied on the exploitation of a racialized class of workers, Black West Indians who were paid in silver rather than the gold white workers received. The Silver Women shifts the focus of this monumental endeavor to the West Indian women who traveled to Panama, inviting...
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Flores-Villalobos, Joan, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Silver Women : How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal / Joan Flores-Villalobos. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2023] ©2023 1 online resource (296 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Politics and Culture in Modern America Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION Women of Silver and Gold -- CHAPTER 1 The Land of Promise? -- CHAPTER 2 “A Scandal on the Isthmus” -- CHAPTER 3 A Moral Battleground -- CHAPTER 4 Labor in the Domestic “Frontier” -- CHAPTER 5 The Value of Death -- CHAPTER 6 Private Honor and Public Lives in Panama City -- CHAPTER 7 A Female Vanguard -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- INDEX -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The Panama Canal’s construction relied on the exploitation of a racialized class of workers, Black West Indians who were paid in silver rather than the gold white workers received. The Silver Women shifts the focus of this monumental endeavor to the West Indian women who traveled to Panama, inviting readers to place women’s intimate lives, choices, grief, and ambition at the center of the economic and geopolitical transformation created by the construction of the Panama Canal and U.S. imperial expansion.Joan Flores-Villalobos argues that Black West Indian women made the canal construction possible by providing the indispensable everyday labor of social reproduction. West Indian women built a provisioning economy that fed, housed, and cared for the segregated Black West Indian labor force, in effect subsidizing the construction effort and its racial calculus. But while also subject to racial discrimination and segregation, West Indian women mostly worked outside the umbrella of U.S. canal authorities. They did not hold contracts and had little access to official services and wages. From this position, they found ways to skirt, and at times subvert, the legal, moral, and economic parameters imperial authorities sought to impose on the racialized migrant workforce. West Indian women developed important strategies of claims-making, kinship, community building, and market adaptation that helped them navigate the contradictions and violence of U.S. empire. In the meantime, these strategies of social reproduction nurtured further West Indian migrations, linking Panama to places like Harlem and Santiago de Cuba.The Silver Women is thus a history of Black West Indian women’s labor of social reproduction as integral to U.S. imperial infrastructure, the global Caribbean diaspora, and women’s own survival. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) Foreign workers, West Indian Panama History. West Indians Panama History. Women foreign workers Panama History. Women, Black Panama History. History-Caribbean. History-Labor. History-United States. History-Women's. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. bisacsh African American. African diaspora. Barbados. Canal Zone. Caribbean. Colón. Panama Canal City. U.S. American empire. West Indian women. West Indies. black women. gender sexuality. gendered geography. labor camp. migrant labor. migrant. migration. mobility. political history. self-determination. silver women. social reproduction. state contract. twentieth century. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English 9783111319292 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 9783111318912 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2023 English 9783111319131 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2023 9783111318189 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 9783110791372 https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512823646?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781512823646 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781512823646/original |
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