{"product_id":"the-coolie-speaks-lisa-yun-9781592135813","title":"The Coolie Speaks: Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves of Cuba","description":"\u003cp\u003eIntroducing radical counter-visions of race and slavery, and probing the legal and philosophical questions raised by indenture, \u003ci\u003eThe Coolie Speaks\u003c\/i\u003e offers the first critical reading of a massive testimony case from Cuba in 1874. From this case, Yun traces the emergence of a \"coolie narrative\" that forms a counterpart to the \"slave narrative.\" The written and oral testimonies of nearly 3,000 Chinese laborers in Cuba, who toiled alongside African slaves, offer a rare glimpse into the nature of bondage and the tortuous transition to freedom. Trapped in one of the last standing systems of slavery in the Americas, the Chinese described their hopes and struggles, and their unrelenting quest for freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYun argues that the testimonies from this case suggest radical critiques of the \"contract\" institution, the basis for free modern society. The example of Cuba, she suggests, constitutes the early experiment and forerunner of new contract slavery, in which the contract itself, taken to its extreme, was wielded as a most potent form of enslavement and complicity. Yun further considers the communal biography of a next-generation Afro-Chinese Cuban author and raises timely theoretical questions regarding race, diaspora, transnationalism, and globalization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lisa Yun\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1592135811\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781592135813\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Temple University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.14h x 6.28w x 1.00d","brand":"Lisa Yun","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48013987447039,"sku":"9781592135813","price":61.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e1f93e24-f001-4ec3-a305-68763b30a497.jpg?v=1767746016","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-coolie-speaks-lisa-yun-9781592135813","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}