The lettered barriada : workers, archival power, and the politics of knowledge in Puerto Rico / Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meléndez Badillo, Jorell A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Partido Socialista (P.R.)--History.

Partido Socialista (P.R.).

Working class--Political activity--Puerto Rico--History--20th century.

Working class.

Labor movement--Puerto Rico--History--20th century.

Labor movement.

Press, Labor--Puerto Rico--History--20th century.

Press, Labor.

Press and politics--Puerto Rico--History--20th century.

Press and politics.

Intellectuals--Puerto Rico--Attitudes.

Intellectuals.

Historiography.

History.

Working class--Political activity.

Puerto Rico--Politics and government--1898-1952.

Puerto Rico.

Politics and government.

Puerto Rico--Historiography.

Intellectuals--Attitudes.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"In The Lettered Barriada, Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo tells the story of how a cluster of self-educated workers burst into Puerto Rico's world of letters and navigated the colonial polity that emerged out of the 1898 US occupation. They did so by asserting themselves as citizens, producers of their own historical narratives, and learned minds. Disregarded by most of Puerto Rico's intellectual elite, these workers engaged in dialogue with international peers and imagined themselves as part of a global community. They also entered the world of politics through the creation of the Socialist Party, which became an electoral force in the first half of the twentieth century. Meléndez-Badillo shows how those workers produced, negotiated, and deployed powerful discourses that eventually shaped Puerto Rico's national mythology. By following those ragtag intellectuals as they became politicians and statesmen, Meléndez-Badillo also demonstrates how they engaged in racial and gender silencing, epistemic violence, and historical erasures in the fringes of society. Ultimately, The Lettered Barriada is about the politics of knowledge production and the tensions between working-class intellectuals and the state. Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Words as bricks and pages as mortar : building the lettered barriada

The workshop is our homeland : global communities, local exclusions

In the margins of the margin : workingwomen and their struggle for remembrance

Becoming politicians : the Socialist Party and the politics of legitimation

Strike against labor : the 1933 student mobilizations

Minor theft : consolidating the barriada's ideational archive.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Meléndez Badillo, Jorell A. Lettered barriada.

ISBN:

9781478013853

1478013850

9781478014782

1478014784

OCLC:

1240414391