Seams of empire : race and radicalism in Puerto Rico and the United States / Carlos Alamo-Pastrana.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alamo-Pastrana, Carlos, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radicalism.

Race relations.

Puerto Rico--Race relations.

Puerto Rico.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Radicalism--United States.

Radicalism--Puerto Rico.

Physical Description:

xvi, 213 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The Puerto Rican blueprint

Dispatches from the colonial outpost

The living negro in Latin America

The republic of the penniless

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813062563

081306256X

OCLC:

927192451