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100 1 $aYun, Lisa,$d1963-
245 14 $aThe coolie speaks :$bChinese indentured laborers and African slaves in Cuba /$cLisa Yun.
246 30 $aChinese indentured laborers and african slaves in Cuba
260 $aPhiladelphia :$bTemple University Press,$cc2008.
300 $axxiii, 311 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aAsian American history and culture
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [261]-276) and index.
520 $aThis title focuses on Chinese labourers who worked with African slaves in Cuba. Through an examination of narratives of resistance, the book reconceptualizes diasporic representations and histories to offer transformative re-examinations of 'Chinese', 'African' and 'Latino' in mutually imbricated contexts.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Challenges of a Transnational History -- Historical Context of Coolie Traffic to the Americas -- The Narrative of Transition -- The Early Experiments -- Chinese and Indian Coolie Labor -- Chinese Coolies and "Tea with Sugar" -- Coolies on Ships and the Passage -- Coolies on American Ships -- Coolies on Land -- The Coolie Testimonies -- The Commission Investigation -- Methodological Challenges of Reading Testimonies -- Coolie Testimonies and African Slave Narratives -- Who Were the Coolies? -- The Petitions -- The Witness Petition -- The Verse Petition -- The Argument Petition -- Philosophical Prelude -- Chasing Freedom -- Slaves of the Market -- The Paper Chase Petition -- The Depositions -- Race, Resistance, and Spectacular Subordination -- The Peculiar Fatality of Color -- Struggle Before Solidarity -- The Cost of Domination -- An Afro-Chinese Author and the Next Generation -- The Subversive and the Translator -- The Motley Tongue -- Liberation, Solidarity, and "Socio-political Adultery" -- Coolies and Californians -- Conclusion: Old and New Maps of Coolies -- Addendum: Selected Petitions.
650 0 $aIndentured servants$zCuba$xHistory.
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650 0 $aSlave labor$zCuba$xHistory.
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650 0 $aSlaves' writings$zCuba$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aRevolutionary literature, Cuban$xHistory and criticism.
651 0 $aCuba$xRace relations$xHistory.
651 0 $aCuba$xEmigration and immigration$xHistory.
830 0 $aAsian American history and culture.
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