Not of pure blood
Subtitle: the free people of color and racial prejudice in nineteenth-century Puerto Rico
By: Jay Kinsbruner.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Blacks -- Puerto Rico -- Social conditions.; Racism -- Puerto Rico -- History -- 19th century.; Prejudices -- Puerto Rico -- History -- 19th century.; Puerto Rico -- History -- To 1898.; Puerto Rico -- Race relations.
Description: "Based on examination of housing patterns in San Juan and demographic data from four of its 19th-century barrios, work provides a much-needed exploration of racial prejudice in Puerto Rico. Challenges commonplace denial of racial discrimination up to the present by showing that free people of color had limited economic, social, and political opportunities to advance their status"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-170) and index.