Silencing race : disentangling blackness, colonialism, and national identities in Puerto Rico /

In their quest for greater political participation within shifting imperial fields--from Spanish (1850s-1898) to US rule (1898- ) Puerto Ricans struggled to shape and contain conversations about race. In so doing, they crafted, negotiated, and imposed on others multiple forms of silences while repro...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rodríguez-Silva, Ileana M., 1970-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2012.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Race relations > History > 19th century.
National characteristics, Puerto Rican.
Black people > Race identity > Puerto Rico.
Working class > Puerto Rico > History > 19th century.
Relations raciales > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Portoricains.
Travailleurs > Porto Rico > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Personnes noires > Identité ethnique > Porto Rico.
Ethnic studies > The Americas.
Colonialism & imperialism > The Americas.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Society.
Black people > Race identity
Colonial influence
National characteristics, Puerto Rican
Race relations
Working class
Ethnische Beziehungen
Arbeiter
Soziale Klasse
Nationalbewusstsein
Puerto Rico > Colonial influence.
Porto Rico > Influence coloniale.
Puerto Rico
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Racial (dis)harmony in Puerto Rico
  • Slavery and the multi-racial-racially mixed laboring classes
  • Becoming a free worker in post-emancipation Puerto Rico
  • Liberal elites' writings : the racial dissection of the Puerto Rican specimen
  • Race and social struggles in the restructuring of late-nineteenth century Ponce
  • U.S. rule and the volatile topic of race in the public political sphere
  • Racial silencing and the organizing of Puerto Rican labor
  • Deflecting Puerto Rico's blackness
  • The heavy weight of silence.

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