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In this beautifully written book, New York City assumes its rightful place as one of America's great crossroads. Hoffnung-Garskof brings to life a fascinating cast of characters and charts their remarkable voyages between exile and home; Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Manhattan; and Latin American and U.S. notions of race. --Karl Jacoby, author of The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire A captivating epic of New York City in the Gilded Age, Racial Migrations reveals a hidden, radical facet of the city's history. Men and women of color from Cuba and Puerto Rico built a vibrant transnational community and theorized a complex political movement from their experiences of varied racial regimes. Harnessing a trove of original data and applying his skilled historical imagination, Hoffnung-Garskof tells a tale of remarkable individuals who turned a northern urban center into a seedbed of Caribbean revolution. --Tiya Miles, author of The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits Hoffnung-Garskof's study of black immigrants from the Spanish Caribbean in late nineteenth-century New York captures brilliantly the experience of 'migrating while black and Latino.' Superbly written, researched, and argued, this sophisticated and nuanced book will be immensely important, a model work of transnational history of migration and race. --Ada Ferrer, New York University Following carefully a 'printed trail of clues' produced by a remarkable group of radicals of African descent, from Cuba and Puerto Rico to the United States, Hoffnung-Garskof offers a rich reconstruction of a vibrant and little-known world of black activism and intellectual production. Giving readers access to important history through interconnected stories, Racial Migrations is beautifully written. --Alejandro de la Fuente, Harvard University

Hoffnung-Garskof's study of black immigrants from the Spanish Caribbean in late nineteenth-century New York captures brilliantly the experience of `migrating while black and Latino.' Superbly written, researched, and argued, this sophisticated and nuanced book will be immensely important, a model work of transnational history of migration and race. -Ada Ferrer, New York University Following carefully a `printed trail of clues' produced by a remarkable group of radicals of African descent, from Cuba and Puerto Rico to the United States, Hoffnung-Garskof offers a rich reconstruction of a vibrant and little-known world of black activism and intellectual production. Giving readers access to important history through interconnected stories, Racial Migrations is beautifully written. -Alejandro de la Fuente, Harvard University

Hoffnung-Garskof's study of black immigrants from the Spanish Caribbean in late nineteenth-century New York captures brilliantly the experience of 'migrating while black and Latino.' Superbly written, researched, and argued, this sophisticated and nuanced book will be immensely important, a model work of transnational history of migration and race. --Ada Ferrer, New York University Following carefully a 'printed trail of clues' produced by a remarkable group of radicals of African descent, from Cuba and Puerto Rico to the United States, Hoffnung-Garskof offers a rich reconstruction of a vibrant and little-known world of black activism and intellectual production. Giving readers access to important history through interconnected stories, Racial Migrations is beautifully written. --Alejandro de la Fuente, Harvard University

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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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