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.

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

Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico--Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 261 pages) : illustrations ;

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo tells the story of how a cluster of self-educated workers burst into Puerto Rico's world of letters in the aftermath of the 1898 US occupation, showing how they produced, negotiated, and deployed powerful discourses that eventually shaped Puerto Rico's national mythology."-- 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.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781478022091

1478022094

OCLC:

1264412555