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Contact Zones: Heterogeneity and Boundaries in Caribbean Central America at the Start of the Twentieth Century

Putnam, Lara (2006) Contact Zones: Heterogeneity and Boundaries in Caribbean Central America at the Start of the Twentieth Century. Iberoamericana, 6 (23). 113 - 125. ISSN 1577-3388

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Abstract

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as direct foreign investment in bananas and other exports boomed, migrants from the British West Indies, French Caribbean, South America, Western Europe, China, Syria, and India reached Caribbean Central America, as did Spanish-speaking mestizos who crossed provincial or regional rather than international borders to do so. This essay examines the conceptualization of racial and cultural difference by North Atlantic travelers to the banana zones, on the one hand, and Caribbean denizens of the same, on the other. European and U.S. observers insisted that racial distinctions were real and self-evident. In contrast, Afro-Caribbean migrants, though they used the same racial labels to describe the social world around them, insisted that power difference rather than cultural or biological difference determined the fate of racial collectives.

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Item Type: Article
Status: Published
Creators/Authors:
CreatorsEmailPitt UsernameORCID
Putnam, Laralep12@pitt.eduLEP12
Date: September 2006
Date Type: Publication
Access Restriction: No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately.
Journal or Publication Title: Iberoamericana
Volume: 6
Number: 23
Publisher: Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Berlin
Page Range: 113 - 125
Institution: University of Pittsburgh
Schools and Programs: Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > History
Refereed: Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords: Caribbean, migration, banana, zones, racial, ideologies, Limón, (Costa, Rica), Panama
ISSN: 1577-3388
Official URL: http://www.iai.spk-berlin.de/en/publications/ibero...
Article Type: Research Article
Date Deposited: 28 Mar 2014 14:20
Last Modified: 21 Oct 2017 05:56
URI: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/20862

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