Identity And Identity In Laura Putnam's Radical Moves

During the late period of the nineteenth to the early twentieth century a sizable amount of Western British migrants lived and worked throughout the Americas and Caribbean islands on the Panama Canal, and sugar plantations in Cuba and the Dominican Republic. According to author Laura Putnam’s book entitled “Radical Moves” gives insight to these immigrants and argues how they paved the way for the modern world and civilization, as well as how these events set up black representation and identity in the Caribbean and the Americas. Putnam addresses what push factors drove migrants away from the Caribbean, how gender, race, and class within an empire caused issues with migrants in their new lives. Putnam also discusses the different ways migrants depicted themselves as “black internationalists” that were a part of the “new negro world.” Putnam explains how religion, print culture, and music such as jazz played a role in portraying the migrants’ new identities. Lastly, Putnam provides detail on how returning migrants used their experiences and new ideas in the Caribbean from living abroad.
The author Laura Putnam entitled her book “Radical Moves” because of the different activities the migrants did to establish themselves a new …show more content…
he then returned to Jamaica and “Staked out a fierce claim to black rights within empire.” These were prime examples of how class and race affected the migrants “new