Panama in Black :Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century

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Panama in Black

Panama in Black :Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century

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In Panama in Black, Kaysha Corinealdi traces the multigenerational activism of Afro-Caribbean Panamanians as they forged diasporic communities in Panama and the United States throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on a rich array of sources including speeches, yearbooks, photographs, government reports, radio broadcasts, newspaper editorials, and oral histories, Corinealdi presents the Panamanian isthmus as a crucial site in the making of an Afro-diasporic world that linked cities and towns like ColÓn, Kingston, PanamÁ City, Brooklyn, Bridgetown, and La Boca. In Panama, Afro-Caribbean Panamanians created a diasporic worldview of the Caribbean that privileged the potential of Black innovation. Corinealdi maps this innovation by examining the longest-running Black newspaper in Central America, the rise of civic associations created to counter policies that stripped Afro-Caribbean Panamanians of citizenship, the creation of scholarship-granting organizations that supported the education of Black students, and the emergence of national conferences and organizations that linked anti-imperialism and Black liberation. By showing how Afro-Caribbean Panamanians used these methods to navigate anti-Blackness, xenophobia, and white supremacy, Corinealdi offers a new mode of understanding activism, community, and diaspora formation.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781478018513
ISBN10 1478018518
Number Of Pages 280
Item Weight 408 g
Publisher / Reseller Duke University Press
Format paperback
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"A widely appealing and valuable addition to diaspora studies, Central American and Caribbean historiography, and scholarly understandings of how individuals and groups navigate belonging in and beyond the nation." - Elizabeth Manley (The Americas) "Panama in Black uncovers the complexities of Afro-Caribbean Panamanian identity across class, gender, and generational lines. Corinealdi’s account of Afro-diasporic world making reveals an ongoing practice in which Afro-Caribbean migrants shaped ideas of citizenship on the isthmus and throughout the Americas. As a result, this book is essential reading for those interested in the history of Caribbean migrations, the African diaspora, the Canal Zone, Panamanian nation formation, and citizenship in Latin America." - Takkara Brunson (H-Caribbean) "Panama in Black demonstrates some of the reasons researchers, including myself, were drawn to these immigrants and their descendants. . . . I salute Kaysha Corinealdi for this latest addition to the bookshelf and look forward to more." - Michael Conniff (ReVista)

"This is a terrific book. Scholars of not only the African diaspora but other diasporas in different geographic contexts and historical periods would benefit from taking it very seriously. ... [Corinealdi's] sophisticated grasp of the much broader concerns of diasporic studies should make this short book a must for those studying regions beyond the Americas."

- Dario A. Euraque (Hispanic American Historical Review) "Corinealdi’s book is a splendid addition to renewed studies of the Afro-Caribbean experience in the Greater Caribbean Basin and the diaspora." - Kirwin R. Shaffer (English Historical Review) "Overall, Panama in Black is highly readable and very good to follow, no matter the readers prior knowledge. It combines a highly specific perspective and very general questions and is by this a contribution to many different scientific debates, not only on US- or Panamanian history. . . . [I]t is a book you clearly have to read if you are interested in Panamanian history, racism, diasporic world making or intersectional perspectives on these topics." - Mario Faust-Scalisi (Iberoamericana)

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Author's Bio

Kaysha Corinealdi is Associate Professor in Comparative Caribbean & Hemispheric Transnationalisms at Rutgers University.

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