| Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar: Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies, 1838-1918 Revised Edition Contributor(s): Lai, Walton Look (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801877466 ISBN-13: 9780801877469 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $34.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2004 Annotation: In Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar Walton Look Lai offers the first comprehensive study of Asian immigration and the indenture system in the entire British West Indies -- with particular emphasis on the experiences of indentured laborers in the major receiving colonies of British Guyana, Trinidad, and Jamaica. Exploring living and working conditions as well as the makeup of immigrant communities and their cultures, Look Lai offers a "dialectical pluralist" model of Caribbean acculturation that contrasts with the more familiar "melting pot" or "pure pluralist" model. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Caribbean & West Indies - General - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - History | Latin America - General |
| Dewey: 306.363 |
| Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History & Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 9" (1.3 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Chinese - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies - Cultural Region - Indian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar Walton Look Lai offers the first comprehensive study of Asian immigration and the indenture system in the entire British West Indies--with particular emphasis on the experiences of indentured laborers in the major receiving colonies of British Guyana, Trinidad, and Jamaica. Exploring living and working conditions as well as the makeup of immigrant communities and their cultures, Look Lai offers a "dialectical pluralist" model of Caribbean acculturation that contrasts with the more familiar "melting pot" or "pure pluralist" model. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lai, Walton Look: - Walton Look Lai is Lecturer in History at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago. He is a former Rockefeller Foundation fellow at the Asian American Center, Queen's College, City University of New York. |