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Notes Abbreviations CUSDPR Confidential United States Diplomatic Post Records, 1930–39, followed by record group (RG) and reel numbers JA Jamaican Archives NA British National Archives, followed by the Foreign Office or Colonial Office designation (FO or CO) and filing numbers * * * Introduction 1. For some of the most important works on Cuba’s connections to the rest of the Caribbean and the Atlantic world during the colonial period, see Midlo Hall, Social Control in Slave Plantation Societies; de la Fuente, Havana and the Atlantic; S. Johnson, The Social Transformation of Eighteenth-Century Cuba; Knight and Liss, Atlantic Port Cities; Chinea, Race and Labor; Ferrer, “Speaking of Haiti”; and Fischer, Modernity Disavowed. 2. The list of works on the history of Cuba’s ties with North America is too large to provide here, but the best starting points are Pérez, Cuba and the United States, and more recently Pérez, Cuba in the American Imagination. 3. Dorsey, “Women without History.” We are grateful to one of the anonymous readers for the University Press of Florida for drawing this important article to our attention. 4. For example, see Ayala, American Sugar Kingdom; Dye, Cuban Sugar. An important work that did focus on Haitian and British Caribbean labor migration is Álvarez Est évez, Azúcar e inmigración; unfortunately, no one has continued systematic research on the relationship between immigration and the sugar industry in the twentieth century. 5. An important exception is Ayala, American Sugar Kingdom. Ayala’s book is an excellent starting point for comparative research, but his study is limited to the Hispanic Caribbean. There is still much to be done comparing Cuba with plantation societies in the British, French, and Dutch Caribbean and in Central America. 6. For British Caribbean migration to the Hispanic Caribbean (excluding Cuba) see Proudfoot, Population Movements; Petras, Jamaican Labour Migration; James, Holding 184 · Notes to Pages 4–28 Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia, especially chapter 1; Bourgeois, Ethnicity at Work; Chomsky, West Indian Workers; Putnam, The Company They Kept; Conniff, Black Labor; Purcel, Banana Fallout; Richardson, Panama Money; Harpelle, The West Indians of Costa Rica; and Newton, The Silver Men. 7. Pérez de la Riva, “Cuba y la migración antillana”; Knight, “Jamaican Migrants”; Chomsky, “‘Barbados or Canada?’”; B. Carr, “Identity, Class, and Nation”; McLeod, “Undesirable Aliens”; Giovannetti, “The Elusive Organization of ‘Identity.’” 8. McLeod, “Undesirable Aliens”; Giovannetti, “Black British Subjects in Cuba.” 9. See del Castillo, La inmigración de brazeros azucareros; Plant, Sugar and Modern Slavery; and Jackson, Geographies of the Haitian Diaspora. 10. Renda, Taking Haiti. For an excellent literary treatment of what it was like for a Haitian migrant who returned to Haiti after years working in Cuba, see Roumain, Masters of the Dew. 11. An excellent study of this phenomenon for Jamaica is Besson, Martha Brae’s Two Histories. 12. Mintz, Caribbean Transformations. 13. In addition to McLeod, “Undesirable Aliens,” see Lundahl, “A Note on Haitian Migration”; Espronceda Amor, Parentesco; and Hume, “On the Margins.” 14. Mintz and Price, The Birth of African-American Cultures, 23, 39. 15. The phrase “right to have rights” is taken from Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism, 296–97. Chapter 1. Who Are the Cuban People? 1. The most important, and classic, works on Cuban population history are Guerra y Sánchez, Sugar and Society; Ortiz, Cuban Counterpoint; Franco, Ensayos históricos; Franco, Apuntes para una historia; and Instituto de la Historia, Historia del movimiento obrero Cuba, vol. 1. The earlier chapters in Thomas, Cuba, or the Pursuit of Freedom, are always worth consulting. On Chinese immigration to Cuba, see Jiménez Pastrana, Los chinos en la historia de Cuba; Corbitt, A Study of the Chinese in Cuba; Hu-Dehart, “Chinese Coolie Labour”; Dorsey, “Identity, Rebellion, and Social Justice”; and Yun, The Coolie Speaks. For comparative purposes it is worth consulting Lai, Indentured Labor. 2. Two authors who have influenced our thinking on the concepts of culture, society, the state, and power are the anthropologists Maurice Godelier and Eric Wolf. See especially Godelier, In and Out of the West, and Wolf, Envisioning Power. 3. For some of the main works on this period of Cuban history see Hennessy, “The Roots of Cuban Nationalism”; Á. Fernández, España y Cuba; Schmidt-Nowara, Empire and Antislavery; Ferrer, Insurgent Cuba; de la Fuente, A Nation for All; Helg, Our Rightful Share; and Pérez, Cuba between Empires. 4. On social and political history, in addition to the works by de la Fuente, Ferrer, and Helg cited...