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The gripping history of Afro-Latino migrants who conspired to overthrow a colonial monarchy, end slavery, and secure full citizenship in their homelands In the late nineteenth century, a small group of Cubans and Puerto Ricans of African descent settled in the segregated tenements of New York City. At an immigrant educational society in Greenwic

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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 Hernandez Matos, European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year 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 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

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Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof is professor of history, American culture, and Latina/o studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of A Tale of Two Cities: Santo Domingo and New York after 1950 (Princeton).

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