Silencing race
Subtitle: disentangling blackness, colonialism, and national identities in Puerto Rico
By: Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781137263216
Subjects: Race relations; Race identity Puerto Rico; Colonial influence; Blacks; Puerto Rican National characteristics; Working class; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Racial (dis)harmony in Puerto Rico; title: Slavery and the multi-racial-racially mixed laboring classes; title: Becoming a free worker in post-emancipation Puerto Rico; title: Liberal elites' writings : the racial dissection of the Puerto Rican specimen; title: Race and social struggles in the restructuring of late-nineteenth century Ponce; title: U.S. rule and the volatile topic of race in the public political sphere; title: Racial silencing and the organizing of Puerto Rican labor; title: Deflecting Puerto Rico's blackness; title: The heavy weight of silence.