{"id":38447,"date":"2014-11-22T02:39:46","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T02:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38447"},"modified":"2016-03-21T00:40:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T00:40:25","slug":"kathleen-lopez-chinese-cubans-a-transnational-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38447","title":{"rendered":"Kathleen L\u00f3pez: Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newbooksinlatinamericanstudies.com\/2014\/11\/21\/kathleen-lopez-chinese-cubans-a-transnational-history-unc-press-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Kathleen L\u00f3pez: Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newbooksinlatinamericanstudies.com\" target=\"_blank\">New Books in Latin American Studies: Discussions with Scholars of Latin America about Their New Books<\/a><br \/>\n2014-11-21<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alejandrabronfman.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Alejandra Bronfman<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>University of British Columbia, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Successive waves of migration brought thousands of Chinese laborers to Cuba over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coolie\" target=\"_blank\">coolie<\/a> trade, which was meant to replace waning supplies of slaves, was but the first. In the twentieth century, a sugar boom in Cuba facilitated the entry of thousands more. Many of these itinerant workers stayed, and this book uses Chinese and Spanish languages sources and microhistorical methods to trace their lives as they married, raised children, formed associations and ran businesses. <a href=\"http:\/\/latcar.rutgers.edu\/people\/core-faculty\/50-kathleen-lopez\" target=\"_blank\">Kathleen L\u00f3pez\u2018s<\/a> book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=30806\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Chinese Cubans, A Transnational History<\/em><\/a> (University of North Carolina Press, 2013) asks questions about belonging and offers a nuanced interpretation of the ways people of Chinese descent could proffer loyalties to Cuba even as they were embedded in transnational Chinese networks. There are surprising stories here, about race, family and work. Next time you encounter a Chinese-Cuban restaurant, you\u2019ll know a little more about how it got there.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the interview (01:06:29) <a href=\"http:\/\/newbooksinlatinamericanstudies.com\/2014\/11\/21\/kathleen-lopez-chinese-cubans-a-transnational-history-unc-press-2013\/#podPressPlayerSpace_2\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Download the interview <a href=\"http:\/\/files.newbooksnetwork.com\/latinamerica\/009latinamericalopez.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathleen L\u00f3pez: Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History New Books in Latin American Studies: Discussions with Scholars of Latin America about Their New Books 2014-11-21 Alejandra Bronfman, Associate Professor of History University of British Columbia, Canada Successive waves of migration brought thousands of Chinese laborers to Cuba over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The coolie trade, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,2850,21,459,13743,8],"tags":[8378,221,673,14606,18484,18485],"class_list":["post-38447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-audio","category-latincarib","category-history","category-interviews","category-media-archive","tag-alejandra-bronfman","tag-china","tag-cuba","tag-kathleen-lopez","tag-new-books-in-latin-american-studies","tag-new-books-in-latin-american-studies-discussions-with-scholars-of-latin-america-about-their-new-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46142,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38447\/revisions\/46142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}