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

Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 320 pages) 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Print version record Subject Race relations -- History -- 19th century National characteristics, Puerto Rican. Black people -- Race identity -- Puerto Rico Working class -- Puerto Rico -- History -- 19th century 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 SUBJECT Puerto Rico -- Colonial influence Subject Puerto Rico Puerto Rico Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781137263223 1137263229 9781349442478 134944247X

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