Everything I could've wanted in a book about the initial waves of Caribbean migration into the united states at the turn of the 19th and 20th century: the antecedent de facto realities that caused people with the means to leave colonial islands for Panama and the United States, the leaders of political radicalism from 1900-1932 in the United States and how their Caribbean background allowed them to be leaders, and the difference between English-speaking Caribbean communities and Spanish-speaking Caribbean communities relationship with their racial identities and the political causes they aligned themselves with (while also not being cut and dry with the Spanish speaking communities). This is exactly what I was looking for in a book to deepen my understanding of the Caribbean as a region and how the civil rights movements of the Harlem Renaissance were spearheaded by Caribbean activists as a result of their circumstances living on the various islands that make up the region. Can't recommend highly enough.