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Table of Contents:

• Introduction : caste and class in southern Belize
• Culture and history in the forgotten district
• Boom, bust, and monopoly control : cycles of banana production in Belize
• Local and international contexts of production
• Out of work in the fields of gold : Belizean labor in the banana industry
• Central American immigration : the reshaping of a labor market
• The construction of ethnicity on banana farms
• Transnational identities and trajectories in the banana belt
• Toward paths that unite : strategies of nationhood and development
• Epilogue : the crushing of banderas unidas.

Author/Creator:

Moberg, Mark, 1959-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Myths of ethnicity and nation: immigration, work, and identity in the Belize banana industry [by Moberg, M.]

Subjects:

Banana trade — Belize — History

Banana trade — Belize — Employees — History

Agricultural laborers — Belize — History

Foreign workers — Belize — History

Belize — Ethnic relations

Banana trade

Banana trade — Employees

Agricultural laborers

Foreign workers

Ethnic relations

Belize

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-211) and index.

Physical Description:

xxxvi, 218 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

HD9259.B3 B426 1997

ISBNs:

087049970X (alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

96051261

OCLC Numbers:

36074473