Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean

by Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof

Book Overview

The gripping history of Afro-Latino migrants who conspired to overthrow a colonial monarchy, end slavery, and secure full citizenship in their homelands

In the late nineteenth century, a small group of Cubans and Puerto Ricans of African descent settled in the segregated tenements of New York City. At an immigrant educational society in Greenwich Village, these early Afro-Latino New Yorkers taught themselves to be poets, journalists,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691218374
• ISBN13: 9780691218373
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"