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Silencing Race : Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico / by I. Rodríguez-Silva.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rodríguez-Silva, Ileana M., 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- America--History.
- America.
- Social policy.
- Race.
- Political sociology.
- Ethnology--Latin America.
- Ethnology.
- Culture.
- United States--History.
- United States.
- History of the Americas.
- Social Policy.
- Race and Ethnicity Studies.
- Political Sociology.
- Latin American Culture.
- US History.
- Local Subjects:
- History of the Americas.
- Social Policy.
- Race and Ethnicity Studies.
- Political Sociology.
- Latin American Culture.
- US History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (329 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2012.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Conclusion: The Heavy Weight of Silence
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781283738491
- 128373849X
- 9781137263223
- 1137263229
- OCLC:
- 818226936
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