Scripts of Blackness : Race, Cultural Nationalism, and U.S. Colonialism in Puerto Rico /

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"The geopolitical influence of the United States informs the processes of racialization in Puerto Rico, including the construction of black places. In Scripts of Blackness, Isar P. Godreau explores how Puerto Rican national discourses about race--created to overcome U.S. colonial power--simulta...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Godreau, Isar (Isar P.) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Race relations.
Race > Political aspects.
Nationalism.
International relations.
Geopolitics.
Colonial influence.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
HISTORY > Caribbean & West Indies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
Geopolitique > États-Unis.
Geopolitique > Porto Rico.
Nationalisme > Porto Rico.
Race > Aspect politique > Porto Rico.
Geopolitics > United States.
Geopolitics > Puerto Rico.
Nationalism > Puerto Rico.
Race > Political aspects > Puerto Rico.
United States.
Puerto Rico > Ponce.
Puerto Rico.
Porto Rico > Relations > États-Unis.
Porto Rico > Influence coloniale.
Porto Rico > Relations raciales.
Puerto Rico > Relations > United States.
United States > Relations > Puerto Rico.
Ponce (P.R.) > Race relations.
San Antón (Ponce, P.R.) > Race relations.
Puerto Rico > Colonial influence.
Puerto Rico > Race relations.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"The geopolitical influence of the United States informs the processes of racialization in Puerto Rico, including the construction of black places. In Scripts of Blackness, Isar P. Godreau explores how Puerto Rican national discourses about race--created to overcome U.S. colonial power--simultaneously privilege whiteness, typecast blackness, and silence charges of racism. Based on an ethnographic study of the barrio of San Antón in the city of Ponce, Scripts of Blackness examines institutional and local representations of blackness as developing from a power-laden process that is inherently selective and political, not neutral or natural. Godreau traces the presumed benevolence or triviality of slavery in Puerto Rico, the favoring of a Spanish colonial whiteness (under a Hispanophile discourse), and the insistence on a harmonious race mixture as discourses that thrive on a presumed contrast with the United States that also characterize Puerto Rico as morally superior. In so doing, she outlines the debates, social hierarchies, and colonial discourses that inform the racialization of San Antón and its residents as black. Mining ethnographic materials and anthropological and historical research, Scripts of Blackness provides powerful insights into the critical political, economic, and historical context behind the strategic deployment of blackness, whiteness, and racial mixture"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (328 pages).
ISBN:9780252096860

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