The Silver Women: How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal by Joan Flores-Villalobos

The Silver Women: How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal

Joan Flores-Villalobos

296 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history
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The construction of the Panama Canal is typically viewed as a marvel of American ingenuity. What is less visible, and less understood, is the project's dependence on the labor of Black migrant women. The Silver Women shifts the focus of this monum...

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