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 reproducing the idea of a unified, racially mixed, harmonious nation. Hence, both upper and working classes participated, although with different agendas, in the constructionof a wide array of silences that together have prevented serious debate aboutracialized domination. This book explores the ongoing, constant racializationof Puerto Rican workers to explore the 'class-making' of race. INDICE: Racial (Dis)Harmony in Puerto Rico.PART I.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.PART II.Changing Empires.US Rule and the Volatile Topic of Race in the Public Political Sphere.Racial Silencing and the Organizing of PuertoRican Labor.Deflecting Puerto Rico's Blackness.The Heavy Weight of Silence

• ISBN: 978-1-1372-6321-6
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 330
• Fecha Publicación: 25/10/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido