The black diaspora in Costa Rica: upward mobility and ethnic discrimination

Abstract

The history of the negro as a labourer is ancient and simple -perhaps more so than that of any other race or people... With few notable exceptions, the negro labourer has little initiative -he is an imitator... experience has proved over and over again that only with rare exceptions has the negro been able to pursue theoretical studies with any degree of success.[Letter from the manager of United Fruit Company operations in Central America to the British Consul, June 11, 1919.]...For forty long years we Costa Ricans were displaced from the best jobs of the Atlantic Zone by Negroes.They were warehouse supervisors, chiefs of commissaries, clerks and formans [sic]....They think that they are superior to us...They look down upon our language...

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