The silver women : how Black women's labor made the Panama Canal /
Author / Creator: | Flores-Villalobos, Joan, author. |
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Imprint: | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2023] |
Description: | 287 pages : maps ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Politics and culture in modern America Politics and culture in modern America. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12922010 |
Summary: | The construction of the Panama Canal is typically viewed as a marvel of American ingenuity. What is less visible, and less understood, is the project's dependence on the labor of Black migrant women. The Silver Women shifts the focus of this monumental endeavor to the West Indian women who travelled to Panama, inviting readers to place women's intimate lives, choices, grief, and ambition at the center of the economic and geopolitical transformation created by the construction of the Panama Canal and U.S. imperial expansion. |
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Physical Description: | 287 pages : maps ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-277) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781512823639 1512823635 9781512823646 |