The Lettered Barriada : Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico /

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"In The Lettered Barriada, Jorell A. Melendez-Badillo tells the story of how a cluster of self-educated workers burst into Puerto Rico's world of letters and navigated the colonial polity that emerged out of the 1898 US occupation. They did so by asserting themselves as citizens, producers...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Melendez Badillo, Jorell A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Partido Socialista (P.R.)
Partido Socialista (P.R.) > History.
Working class > Political activity.
Press, Labor.
Press and politics.
Politics and government.
Labor movement.
Intellectuals > Attitudes.
Historiography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Hispanic American Studies.
HISTORY / Latin America / General.
Intellectuals > Puerto Rico > Attitudes.
Press and politics > Puerto Rico > History > 20th century.
Press, Labor > Puerto Rico > History > 20th century.
Labor movement > Puerto Rico > History > 20th century.
Working class > Political activity > Puerto Rico > History > 20th century.
Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico > Historiography.
Puerto Rico > Politics and government > 1898-1952.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Words as bricks and pages as mortar : building the lettered barriada
  • The workshop is our homeland : global communities, local exclusions
  • In the margins of the margin : workingwomen and their struggle for remembrance
  • Becoming politicians : the Socialist Party and the politics of legitimation
  • Strike against labor : the 1933 student mobilizations
  • Minor theft : consolidating the barriada's ideational archive.

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