Race and class in the Colonial Bahamas, 1880-1960 / Gail Saunders ; foreword by Bridget Brereton.
| Author/creator | Saunders, Gail |
| Other author | Brereton, Bridget, 1946 |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016] |
| Description | xiii, 371 pages illustrations 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Physical medium | illustrations |
| Contents | The Bahamas in the post-emancipation period -- Bahamian society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: class, race, and ethnicity -- Gradual changes in the Bahamas, 1880-1914 -- World War I and prohibition -- The 1930s and the depression: tourism and restlessness -- World War II and the 1942 Nassau riot -- The formative years, 1950-1958: political organization, race, and protest -- The 1958 general strike and its aftermath -- Confronting a divided society. |
| Abstract | "Saunders shows that, although the Bahamas had class tensions in common with other British colonial lands, Bahamian racial tensions were not necessarily parallel to those across the West Indies so much as they mirrored those occurring in the U.S., with power and/or money consolidated in the hands of the white minority. She examines the nature of the Bahamian race and class relations and interactions between dominant groups--from whites, to people who identified as creole or mixed race, to liberated Africans--between the 1880s and the early 1960s."--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-358) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2015047890 |
| ISBN | 9780813062549 alk. paper |
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