Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century
In Panama in Black, Kaysha Corinealdi traces the multigenerational activism of Afro-Caribbean Panamanians as they forged diasporic communities in Panama and the United States throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on a rich array of sources including speeches, yearbooks, photographs, government reports, radio broadcasts, newspaper editorials, and oral histories, Corinealdi presents the Panamanian isthmus as a crucial site in the making of an Afro-diasporic world that linked cities and towns like Colón, Kingston, Panamá City, Brooklyn, Bridgetown, and La Boca. In Panama, Afro-Caribbean Panamanians created a diasporic worldview of the Caribbean that privileged the potential of Black innovation. Corinealdi maps this innovation by examining the longest-running Black newspaper in Central America, the rise of civic associations created to counter policies that stripped Afro-Caribbean Panamanians of citizenship, the creation of scholarship-granting organizations that supported the education of Black students, and the emergence of national conferences and organizations that linked anti-imperialism and Black liberation. By showing how Afro-Caribbean Panamanians used these methods to navigate anti-Blackness, xenophobia, and white supremacy, Corinealdi offers a new mode of understanding activism, community, and diaspora formation.
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Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century
In Panama in Black, Kaysha Corinealdi traces the multigenerational activism of Afro-Caribbean Panamanians as they forged diasporic communities in Panama and the United States throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on a rich array of sources including speeches, yearbooks, photographs, government reports, radio broadcasts, newspaper editorials, and oral histories, Corinealdi presents the Panamanian isthmus as a crucial site in the making of an Afro-diasporic world that linked cities and towns like Colón, Kingston, Panamá City, Brooklyn, Bridgetown, and La Boca. In Panama, Afro-Caribbean Panamanians created a diasporic worldview of the Caribbean that privileged the potential of Black innovation. Corinealdi maps this innovation by examining the longest-running Black newspaper in Central America, the rise of civic associations created to counter policies that stripped Afro-Caribbean Panamanians of citizenship, the creation of scholarship-granting organizations that supported the education of Black students, and the emergence of national conferences and organizations that linked anti-imperialism and Black liberation. By showing how Afro-Caribbean Panamanians used these methods to navigate anti-Blackness, xenophobia, and white supremacy, Corinealdi offers a new mode of understanding activism, community, and diaspora formation.
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Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century

Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century

by Kaysha Corinealdi
Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century
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Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century

Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century

by Kaysha Corinealdi

Overview

In Panama in Black, Kaysha Corinealdi traces the multigenerational activism of Afro-Caribbean Panamanians as they forged diasporic communities in Panama and the United States throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on a rich array of sources including speeches, yearbooks, photographs, government reports, radio broadcasts, newspaper editorials, and oral histories, Corinealdi presents the Panamanian isthmus as a crucial site in the making of an Afro-diasporic world that linked cities and towns like Colón, Kingston, Panamá City, Brooklyn, Bridgetown, and La Boca. In Panama, Afro-Caribbean Panamanians created a diasporic worldview of the Caribbean that privileged the potential of Black innovation. Corinealdi maps this innovation by examining the longest-running Black newspaper in Central America, the rise of civic associations created to counter policies that stripped Afro-Caribbean Panamanians of citizenship, the creation of scholarship-granting organizations that supported the education of Black students, and the emergence of national conferences and organizations that linked anti-imperialism and Black liberation. By showing how Afro-Caribbean Panamanians used these methods to navigate anti-Blackness, xenophobia, and white supremacy, Corinealdi offers a new mode of understanding activism, community, and diaspora formation.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781478015895
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 09/16/2022
Pages: 280
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Kaysha Corinealdi is Associate Professor in Comparative Caribbean & Hemispheric Transnationalisms at Rutgers University.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction. Legacies of Exclusion and Afro-Caribbean Diasporic World Making  1
1. Panama as Diaspora: Documenting Afro-Caribbean Panamanian Histories, 1928–1936  29
2. Activist Formations: Fighting for Citizenship Rights and Forging Afro-Diasporic Alliances, 1940–1950  57
3. Todo por la Patria: Diplomacy, Anticommunism, and the Rhetoric of Assimilation, 1950–1954  93
4. To Be Panamanian: The Canal Zone, Nationalist Sacrifices, and the Price of Citizenship, 1954–1961  122
5. Panama in New York: Las Servidoras and Engendering an Educated Black Diaspora, 1953–1970  150
Conclusion. Afro-Caribbean Panamanians and the Future of Diasporic World Making  180
Notes  195
Bibliography  233
Index  253

What People are Saying About This

In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917–1939 - Minkah Makalani

“Panama in Black tells the story of Afro-Caribbean Panamanian claims of belonging that challenged dominant notions of citizenship as well as US empire. Kaysha Corinealdi offers us a conceptually rich and finely researched study that demonstrates how activists, intellectuals, politicians, and workers confronted the Panamanian state as well as the US racial regime in the Canal Zone and Jim Crow-era Brooklyn as they pursued a project of African diasporic world making.”

Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age - Lara Putnam

“Kaysha Corinealdi’s in-depth research in Panamanian and US archives, both public and private, is unparalleled by any previous scholar. Putting Afro-Caribbean Panamanian perspectives at the center of the story, Corinealdi helps the reader experience abstractions like race, empire, and nation as they were lived: through vivid human encounters. Panama in Black will be one of those rare cherished academic books and will be read eagerly by students and scholars of Caribbean studies, Afro-diasporic studies, and Latin American history alike.”

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