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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society"
"Co-Winner of the Kenneth Jackson Award for Best Book (North American), Urban History Association"
"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year"
"It is impossible to do justice to such well-researched, skilfully crafted, beautifully written, and thought-provoking book as Hoffnung-Garskof’s in a short review. . . .
Racial Migrations [is] a model of research and writing, and a source for future research."
---Antonio Hernández Matos, European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies"Based on extensive and imaginative research, and written with a wonderful touch, the book offers, as one of its back-cover tributes puts it, a model for how to produce a transnational history of migration and race. . . . Hoffnung-Garskof offers a deep immersion in the world-view of these migrants."
---Peter Hulme, New West Indian Guide"A fantastic and important work."
---Dalia Antonia Caraballo Muller, Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe"
Racial Migrations is a timely exploration of the political subjectivities and organizing practices of Black and racially-mixed Cuban intellectuals, activists, and workers in their nineteenth-century struggles for freedom, democratic participation, and racial equality. . . . [An] enticing reading."
---Ileana María Rodríguez-Silva, CENTRO Journal"Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof’s
Racial Migrations employs a microhistorical approach to depict how Cubans and Puerto Ricans of African descent negotiated with non-Black revolutionaries to secure their full rights as citizens. . . .
Racial Migrations eloquently explores how people of African descent from different walks of life and nationalities united under cross-social and multiracial social clubs."
---Andrea Carolina Morales Loucil, World History Connected
