The Silver Women: How Black Womens Labor Made the Panama Canal Flores-Villalobos Joan
The Silver Women: How Black Womens Labor Made the Panama Canal Flores-Villalobos Joan The construction of the Panama Canal is typically viewed as a marvel of American ingenuity. The Silver Women…
Specifikacia The Silver Women: How Black Womens Labor Made the Panama Canal Flores-Villalobos Joan
The Silver Women: How Black Womens Labor Made the Panama Canal Flores-Villalobos Joan
The construction of the Panama Canal is typically viewed as a marvel of American ingenuity. The Silver Women shifts the focus of this monumental endeavor to the West Indian women who travelled to Panama, inviting readers to place women's intimate lives, choices, grief, and ambition at the center of the economic and geopolitical transformation created by the construction of the Panama Canal and U.S. What is less visible, and less understood, is the project's dependence on the labor of Black migrant women.
West Indian women built a provisioning economy that fed, housed, and cared for the segregated Black West Indian labor force, in effect subsidizing the construction effort and the racial imperial expansion.Joan Flores-Villalobos argues that Black West Indian women made the canal construction possible by providing the indispensable everyday labor of social reproduction.
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