Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.

• List of figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Historical groundings: unsettled times, unsettled people; 2. Black British Caribbean migration to Cuba, 1898–1948; 3. Migration, racial fears, and violence, 1898–1917; 4. The limits of British imperial support: diplomacy after Jobabo and Cuban national interests; 5. 'Cuba got mash up': British Antilleans between Cuba and the Empire, 1921–1925; 6. The racial politics of migrant labor: company town control, and repatriations, 1925–1931; 7. Transactions in Colonial Caribbean governments and consular policy, 1925–1933; 8. The nationalization of labor and Caribbean workers, 1933–1938; 9. 'The best and most permanent solution?' Repatriation or Assimilation, 1938–1948; 10. Race, nation, and empire; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.