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

Title: Silencing race : disentangling blackness, colonialism, and national identities in Puerto Rico / Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva.
Author: Rodríguez-Silva, Ileana M., 1970-
Publication: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2012.

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Description

viii, 320 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

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 reproducing the idea of a unified, racially mixed, harmonious nation. Hence, both upper and working classes participated, although with different agendas, in the construction of a wide array of silences that together have prevented serious debate about racialized domination. This book explores the ongoing, constant racialization of Puerto Rican workers to explore the 'class-making' of race. -- Book cover.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

Sc E 18-170

ISBN

9781137263216
1137263210

LCCN

2012014880
40021587746

OCLC

792880390

Author

Rodríguez-Silva, Ileana M., 1970-

Title

Silencing race : disentangling blackness, colonialism, and national identities in Puerto Rico / Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva.

Imprint

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1800 - 1899

Other Standard Identifier

40021587746

Research Call Number

Sc E 18-170

JFE 16-2006

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