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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Politics and Culture in Modern America
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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