The work of recognition caribbean colombia and the postemancipation struggle for citizenship this book tells the compelling story of postemancipation colombia from the liberation of the slaves in the 1850s through the countrys first general labor strikes in the 1910s as jason mcgraw demonstrates ending slavery fostered a new sense of . The work of recognition caribbean colombia and the postemancipation struggle for citizenship. A pathbreaking contribution to postemancipation studies the work of recognition reveals the hidden importance of race in colombian politics by focusing on the struggles led by the mostly afro descended workers of the caribbean region to forge a democratic and inclusive nation aline helg universite de geneve. Italicthe work of recognition caribbean colombia and the postemancipation struggle for citizenship italic by jason mcgraw chapel hill university of north carolina press 2014 328 pp 3495. The work of recognition caribbean colombia and the postemancipation struggle for citizenship in this book additional information colombias caribbean coast was at the center of these transformations in which women and men of color the regions majority population increasingly asserted the freedom to control their working conditions