Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2010
Publication Title
Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina
Volume
21
Abstract
Lisa Yun's book The Coolie Speaks: Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba is an extraordinary exemplar of scholarship that examines the under-investigated and often misunderstood phenomenon of Chinese coolie servitude in Cuba. The book interrogates liberal philosophies and modernist epistemologies, and offers new theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches that shatter long-held notions of the labor "contract." Yun's analysis explores a unique body of 2,841 testimonies and petitions by Chinese coolies compiled in the 1876 Report of the Commission Sent by China to Ascertain the Condition of Chinese Coolies in Cuba.
Issue
1
First Page
124
Last Page
127
DOI
http://www3.tau.ac.il/ojs/index.php/eial/article/view/104
ISSN
0792-7061
Rights
Copyright © 2012-2013 Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe
Recommended Citation
Chollett, D. (2010). The Coolie Speaks: Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba. LISA YUN: Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008. Estudios Interdisciplinarios De América Latina Y El Caribe, 21(1).
Primo Type
Book Review
Comments
This open access book review can also be found on the publisher's website: http://www3.tau.ac.il/ojs/index.php/eial/article/view/104