TY - BOOK ID - 77884473 TI - The West Indians of Costa Rica PY - 2001 SN - 128285917X 9786612859175 0773569057 9780773569058 0773521623 9780773521629 6612859172 PB - Montreal, Que. McGill-Queen's University Press DB - UniCat KW - West Indians KW - Blacks KW - Foreign workers, West Indian KW - Racism KW - Alien labor, West Indian KW - West Indian foreign workers KW - Negroes KW - Ethnology KW - Bias, Racial KW - Race bias KW - Race prejudice KW - Racial bias KW - Prejudices KW - Anti-racism KW - Critical race theory KW - Race relations KW - History KW - Cultural assimilation KW - Limón (Costa Rica : Province) KW - Limon, Costa Rica (Province) KW - Race relations. KW - Black persons KW - Black people KW - Limon (Costa Rica : Province) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77884473 AB - Harpelle focuses on Caribbean migrants and their adaptation to life in a Hispanic society, particularly in Limón, where cultures and economies often clashed. Dealing with such issues as Garveyism, Afro-Christian religious beliefs, and class divisions within the West Indian community, The West Indians of Costa Rica sheds light on a community that has been ignored by most historians and on events that define the parameters of the modern Afro-Costa Rican identity, revealing the complexity of a community in transition. Harpelle shows that the men and women who ventured to Costa Rica in search of opportunities in the banana industry arrived as West Indian sojourners but became Afro-Costa Ricans. The West Indians of Costa Rica is a story about choices: who made them, when, how, and what the consequences were. ER -