Imaging the great Puerto Rican family
Subtitle: framing nation, race, and gender during the American century
By: Hilda Lloréns
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780739189184; 9780739189191
Subjects: Puerto Rico; History; Nationalism; Race relations; African Americans; Pictorial works; Economic conditions; Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-249) and index.
Table of contents: title: Imaging Puerto Rican natives, 1890-1920; title: Building a photographic case for the rehabilitation of the colony, 1930s; title: The emergence of Black-Puerto Ricans in portraiture, 1930s; title: Setting the stage for mid-twentieth century imagery of Puerto Rico, 1920-1951; title: The rise of cultural nationalism and filmic narratives of blackness, 1948-1970; title: Dynamics of the 1970s : national and racial transfigurations; title: What the American century has wrought : Puerto Rican images in the late twentieth century; title: Epilogue : representing Puerto Rico during the American century.