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Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico

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Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico

Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico by Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1137263210 | 330 pages | PDF | 1,5 MB

In their quest for greater political participation within shifting imperial fields—from Spanish (1850s–1898) to US rule (1898-)—Puerto Ricans struggled to shape and contain conversations about race. In so doing, they crafted, negotiated, and imposed on others multiple forms of silences while reproducing the idea of a unified, racially mixed, harmonious nation. Hence, both upper and working classes participated, although with different agendas, in the construction of a wide array of silences that together have prevented serious debate about racialized domination. This book explores the ongoing, constant racialization of Puerto Rican workers to explore the 'class-making' of race.