INDENTURED LABOR, CARIBBEAN SUGAR by Walton Look Lai ( 9780801877469 )

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Title:

INDENTURED LABOR, CARIBBEAN SUGAR
CHINESE AND INDIAN MIGRANTS TO THE BRITISH WEST INDIES, 1838-1918

By:

Walton Look Lai

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Paperback

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0801877466

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9780801877469

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Publisher:

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

29 January, 2004

Series:

Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture

Pages:

400

Description:

Exploring living and working conditions as well as the makeup of immigrant communities and their cultures, Look Lai offers a "dialectical pluralistmodel of Caribbean acculturation that contrasts with the more familiar "melting potor "pure pluralistmodel.

Synopsis:

In Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar Walton Look Lai offers the first comprehensive study of Asian immigration and the indenture system in the entire British West Indies-with particular emphasis on the experiences of indentured laborers in the major receiving colonies of British Guyana, Trinidad, and Jamaica. Exploring living and working conditions as well as the makeup of immigrant communities and their cultures, Look Lai offers a "dialectical pluralist" model of Caribbean acculturation that contrasts with the more familiar "melting pot" or "pure pluralist" model.

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66 Illustrations, color

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Johns Hopkins University Press

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