Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean

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The gripping history of Afro-Latino migrants who conspired to overthrow a colonial monarchy, end slavery, and secure full citizenship in their homelands In the late nineteenth century, a small group of Cubans and Puerto Ricans of African descent settled in the segregated tenements of New York City. At an immigrant educational society in Greenwic

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof is professor of history, American culture, and Latina/o studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of A Tale of Two Cities: Santo Domingo and New York after 1950 (Princeton).

"Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society" "Co-Winner of the Kenneth Jackson Award for Best Book (North American), Urban History Association" "A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year" "It is impossible to do justice to such well-researched, skilfully crafted, beautifully written, and thought-provoking book as Hoffnung-Garskof's in a short review. . . . Racial Migrations [is] a model of research and writing, and a source for future research."---Antonio Hernandez Matos, European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies "Based on extensive and imaginative research, and written with a wonderful touch, the book offers, as one of its back-cover tributes puts it, a model for how to produce a transnational history of migration and race. . . . Hoffnung-Garskof offers a deep immersion in the world-view of these migrants."---Peter Hulme, New West Indian Guide "A fantastic and important work."---Dalia Antonia Caraballo Muller, Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe "Racial Migrations is a timely exploration of the political subjectivities and organizing practices of Black and racially-mixed Cuban intellectuals, activists, and workers in their nineteenth-century struggles for freedom, democratic participation, and racial equality. . . . [An] enticing reading."---Ileana Maria Rodriguez-Silva, CENTRO Journal