Format:
Online-Ressource (329 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781137263216
Content:
Silencing Race provides a historical analysis of the construction of silences surrounding issues of racial inequality, violence, and discrimination in Puerto Rico. Examining the ongoing racialization of Puerto Rican workers, it explores the 'class-making' of race
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Cover; Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Racial (Dis)Harmony in Puerto Rico; Key Concepts and the Language of Race; The Politics of Silencing and Nation-Making in Puerto Rico and Latin America; Silence and Race as Subjects of Analysis; Mapping Silence and the Language of Labor; Part I: Slavery and the Multiracial, Racially Mixed Laboring Classes; Chapter 1: Becoming a Free Worker in Postemancipation Puerto Rico; Labor as an Organizing Principle of Colonial Society
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The Decline of Sugar and the Rise of Liberal PoliticsThe Racial and Gendered Configurations of Puerto Rican Abolitionism; The Moment of Abolition; The Contract System; Defying the Contract System; Modifying the Means of Labor Control; The Possibilities of Contract Bargaining; The Gendering of Domesticity, Labor, and Contract Bargaining in Urban San Juan; The Family and Community of the Emancipation Years; Conclusion; Chapter 2: Liberal Elites' Writings: The Racial Dissection of the Puerto Rican Specimen; A Historical Event; Manuel Zeno Gandía and the Biological History of Puerto Ricans
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Salvador Brau: Consolidating a Puerto Rican Identity through Historical WritingFrancisco del Valle Atiles and the Scientific Measurement of Racial Inheritance; Conclusion; Chapter 3: Race and the Modernization of Ponce after Slavery; The Reorganization and Racialization of Ponce after Abolition; The Population Problem; Illness and Labor; The Discourse on Hygiene and the Reorganization of the City; Productivity and Recognition; Artisans and Crafts; The Politics of Race and Race in Politics: Remembering Abolition; Commemorating Abolition through Public Performances
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Abolition Celebrations and the Rehearsal of the Autonomist Sociopolitical ProjectContesting the Narrative of Gratitude and Other Accounts; Conclusion; Part II: Changing Empires; Chapter 4: US Rule and the Volatile Topic of Race in the Public Political Sphere; The 1898 Landscapes of Race; Puerto Ricans' Views of the New Colonizers; Disrupting Silences in the Island's Political Debates; Redrawing Racialized Boundaries; The Political Value of Race; Conclusion; Chapter 5: Racial Silencing and the Organizing of Puerto Rican Labor; The Making of an Organized Labor Movement
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Defining the Politics of Organized LaborGender, Racialization, and New Forms of Labor Affiliation; Racialization and New Forms of Labor Affiliation; Race and the Impossibility of Unifying the Puerto Rican Labor Federations; Conclusion; Chapter 6: Deflecting Puerto Rican Blackness; Puerto Rico Belongs to the Raza Iberoamericana; The Struggle over US Citizenship and the Race War in Cuba; The (Race-less) Moral Worker; Racial Mixture, Health Campaigns, and the (Race-less) Worker; The Limits of the Morality and Health Discourses; Living under the Weight of Silence
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Conclusion: The Heavy Weight of Silence
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781137263223
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781137263216
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Silencing Race : Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico
Language:
English
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