A Transnational History of the Modern Caribbean: Popular Resistance Across Borders

This book examines Caribbean people resisting racial, political, and social oppression from the eve of the 1790s Haitian Revolution to the twenty-first century. Migrating rebels, shipments of newspapers, rumors, and acts of resistance themselves inspired people throughout the Caribbean who launched their own acts of defiance, illustrating the transnational nature of Caribbean resistance. Some people fought to be left alone, ungovernable, and masterless. Other people fought to free their ethnicity or race, their class, or their nation. Men and women employed a range of tactics from violent armed uprisings to fleeing repression and starting their own communities. Through song, language, religion and festivals, they maintained cultures and identities against oppressive norms that devalued or sought to destroy those cultures and identities. People declared strikes and riots against economic oppression. Women and mothers mobilized for their and their children's freedoms. Across the Caribbean, people confronted oppression and in so doing illustrated their humanity and agency.


Author: Kirwin Shaffer
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 06/14/2022
Pages: 203
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.47d
ISBN13: 9783030930110
ISBN10: 3030930114
BISAC Categories:
- History | Modern | General
- History | Americas (North Central South West Indies)
- History | World | General

About the Author
Kirwin Shaffer is Professor of Latin American Studies at Penn State University - Berks College, USA. He teaches courses on Latin American and Caribbean History, Latin American Studies, Global Terrorism, Tyranny and Freedom, Globalization, and Global Cinema.