Putnam, Lara. Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2013.

Summary
This book examines the experiences of Caribbean migrants in the context of an emerging international system (during the interwar years) of (national/racial) exclusionary policy. These migrants believed they were “at the center of linked processes” that were fundamental to the modern world: “the transformation of race, of nation, of empire.” (3) British Caribbean Migrants were at the forefront of the creation of a self-active “Our People” (“Great Negro Race”); lived at the moment when relation of people to government was redefined as members of national communities expanded; and, finally, were at the center of the crisis of the British empire as it attempted to reconcile race and national identity. Putnam thus argues that “the making and unmaking of the '''circum-Caribbean migratory sphere over the first four decades of the twentieth century was key to the  emergence of globally influential black internationalism''' and to the course of British Caribbean decolonization.” (8) Black internationalism did not move outward from the U.S. but was shaped by the migratory experience as well as the exclusionary practices of the state. Concomitantly, the migratory choices also led to the creation of exclusionary state polices. The black internationalist and anti-colonial movements that would shake the twentieth century were rooted in this process and the '''experiences of ordinary men and women''' not only in Harlem and Paris, but also the banana ports and dance halls of the tropical circum-Caribbean.

Example: Black Press and new forms of dance and music in the Carribean formulated a race-based solidarity, although with diverging ideologies: Some understood it as a matter of race and blood; others argued that it was the international arrangement of political and economic power.

See also: Vivek Bald, Thomas Guglielmo, Daniel Immerwahr (Race/Caste)