Seams of Empire
Subtitle: Connective Histories of Race and Radicalism in Puerto Rico and the United States
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780813062563
Subjects: Radicalism; Puerto rico, social life and customs; United states, race relations
Description: Using his ideas of racial imbrication (an approach that discerns overlapping layers of racism, colonialism, and exploitation), Alamo highlights the reasons and ways that many Puerto Ricans were marginalized in what has generally been perceived as a progressive space, and he looks at how the island gave American blacks and progressive whites a less restrictive place to generate interest in black radicalism.