Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2022
1. See Philippe Bourgois, Ethnicity at Work: Divided Labor on a Central American Banana Plantation (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989); Charles R. Hale, Resistance and Contradiction: Miskitú Indians and the Nicaraguan State, 1894–1987 (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1994); Darío Euraque, Reinterpreting the Banana Republic: Region and State in Honduras, 1870–1972 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996).
2. Ronald Harpelle's recent work is particularly strong on these two issues. See Harpelle, “West Indians in Costa Rica: Racism, Class, and Ethnicity in the Transformation of a Community,” Ph.D. diss., University of Toronto, 1992. For the earliest history of West Indians in Limón using photographic records, see Carmen Murillo Chaverri, Identidades de hierro y humo: La construcción del ferrocarril al Atlántico, 1870–1890 (San José: Porvenir, 1995).