Transnational History of the Modern Caribbean

Kirwin Shaffer is Professor of Latin American Studies at Penn State University – Berks College, USA. He teaches courses on Latin American and Caribbean History, Latin American Studies, Global Terrorism, Tyranny and Freedom, Globalization, and Global Cinema.

• 1 A Popular History of Resistance across Borders.- Thinking About “Resistance”.- If It’s Not Rebellion, Is it Just Another Form of Accommodation?.- Culture and Resistance.- Transnational Resistance and Alternative Geographies.- Women and Resistance.- Some Cautionary Asides About Hero Worship and Resistance.- The Chapters Ahead.- Works Cited and Further References.- 2 Dèyè mòn gen mòn: The Haitian Revolution Throughout the Caribbean.- Indigenous and Slave Resistance before the Haitian Revolution.- On the Eve of the Haitian Revolution.- The Revolt of the Enslaved.- Threats from Napoleon and Citizen Toussaint.- Resisting Toussaint’s State.- The French Invasion and the Declaration of Independence.- The New Country of Ayiti.- The Transnational Impact of the Haitian Revolution.- Inspiring Revolts around the Caribbean.- Haiti and Caribbean Political Radicalism.- Revolutionary Privateering.- Conclusion.- Works Cited and Further References.- 3 Liberating Ourselves: Slave Resistance and Emancipation.- Motherhood and Resistance.- Transnational Religion and Resistance.- Caribbean Resistance and Its Transnational Impact on the United States.- Transnationalism, Resistance, and Abolition in the French West Indies.- Resistance in the Spanish Caribbean, 1790s–1840s.- Rebellious Market Women of the Caribbean.- Conclusion.- Works Cited and Further References.- 4 Liberating Ourselves: Freedom Fighting after Slavery.-Haiti and Resistance during the Boyer Years.- Resisting British Apprenticeship.- Resisting Spanish Apprenticeship.- Free Worker Revolts, Protests, and Strikes.- Resisting Indentured Servitude.- Intra-Class Resistance: Workers Fighting Workers.- Morant Bay, Jamaica, 1865.- Cultural Resistance.- Conclusion.- Works Cited and Further References.- 5 Anti-Colonial Awakenings: The Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Panama, 1820s–Early 1900s.- Early Anti-Spanish Efforts in the Caribbean:El Águila Negra and Filibusters.- The 1860s War for Restoration in the Dominican Republic.- Transnational Anti-Colonialism: The Antilles for Antilleans.- Cuba’s Ten Years War, 1868–1878.- The Little War in Cuba, 1879–1880.- The Cuban War for Independence, 1895–1898.- Banditry, Baseball, and Resistance.- Transnational Support for Independence.- The Spanish-American War and Its Aftermath.- Panamanian Independence.- Conclusion.- Works Cited and Further References.-6 Working-Class Resistance and Anti-Imperialism, 1900–World War II.- Transnational Anarchism Confronts US Expansion.- Resisting US Imperialism in Haiti, 1915–1934.- Resisting US Imperialism in the Dominican Republic, 1916–1924.- Caribbean Anti-Imperialist Leagues in the 1920s and 1930s.- Transnational Radical Support for Sandino’s Anti-Imperialism.- Transnational Resistance in Imperial Black Contact Zones: Central America and Cuba.- Transnational Resistance in Imperial Black Contact Zones: The Great War and at Home.- Organized Labor and Resistance to British Rule.- Trinidad 1937.- Jamaica 1938.- Conclusion.- Works Cited and Further References.-7 Fighting Tyranny, Colonialism, and Imperialism at Mid-Century.- Resisting Dictators: Machado in Cuba.- Resisting Dictators: Trujillo in the Dominican Republic.- The Caribbean Legion Wages Transnational War Against Dictators.- Puerto Rican Nationalists and Anti-Colonial Resistance, 1930s–1950s.- Anti-Americanism at Mid-Century.- Anti-Colonialism and Decolonization in the British West Indies.- Fighting a Different Form of Colonialism in the French West Indies.- Resistance in the Dutch West Indies.- Conclusion.- Works Cited and Further References.-8 A Caribbean “Black Lives Matter”: Black Consciousness and Black Power, Early 1900s–1970s.- Afro-Cuban Politics and the Partido Independiente de Color in the Early 1900s.- The UNIA and Transnational Black Consciousness, 1910s–1920s.- Black Consciousness Meets Marxism, 1920s–1930s.- The African Blood Brotherhood, 1919–1922.- Black Consciousness and Cultural Resistance, 1920s–1950s.- The Cultural Politics of Noirisme in Haiti: The Rise and Rule of Papa Doc.- Rastafari and Black Consciousness in Jamaica, 1930s–1970s.- Rasta and the Cultural Politics of Reggae Music in the 1970s.- Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, and Walter Rodney: Intellectual Roots of Black Power.- Black Power across the Caribbean.- Black Power and the 1970 Trinidad Revolution.- Conclusion.- Works Cited and Further References.- 9 Hasta la Victoria Siempre: The Cuban Revolution Throughout the Caribbean, 1950s–1980s.- Urban and Rural Resistance Against the Batista Dictatorship.- Building the New Socialist Cuba.- Resisting the Revolution: Counterrevolutionary Violence.- Resisting Revolutionary Policies: The Politics of Childhood in the Early 1960s.- The Revolution Didn’t Go Far Enough: Being Too Radical for the Revolution.- Against the Revolution, Nothing: Cuban Cinema and Revolutionary Politics.- Spreading Revolution.- The Grenadian Revolution, 1979–1983.- The Sandinista Revolution, 1979–1990.- Conclusion.- Works Cited and Further References.-10 Masses vs. Massa: The Ongoing Antiauthoritarian Struggle.- Fall of the Duvaliers and Transition to People’s Rule in Haiti, 1980s–1990s.- Puerto Rican Nationalists, 1970s–2000s.- The Maroon War in Suriname, 1986–1992.- Abu Bakr and Trinidad’s Muslim Revolt, 1990.- Colombian Revolutionaries, 1960s–2010s.- Transnational Chavismo and the Multipolar Axis Against Washington.- Dissent during Cuba’s “Special Period,” 1990s–2010s.- The 2009 Labor Uprisings in the French West Indies.- Resistance to Political and Natural Disasters in Haiti and Puerto Rico.- Indigenous Peoples’ Resistance.- Resisting Sexual Violence.- LGBTQ Resistance to Homophobia and Injustice.- Reparations.- Works Cited and Further References.- Index.

“Based on excellent secondary sources, this impressive study, which acknowledges women’s roles in resistance throughout, is all encompassing in its transnational approach. … Shaffer has chartered a new course in the writing of Caribbean history. This is an important and significant achievement.” (Bernard Moitt, New West Indian Guide, Vol. 98 (3-4), September, 2024)