Silencing Race [[electronic resource] ] : Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico / / by I. Rodríguez-Silva

• Autore: Rodríguez-Silva I
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2012.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (329 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.80097295
• Soggetto topico: America—History; Social policy; Ethnicity; Political sociology; Ethnology—Latin America; United States—History; History of the Americas; Social Policy; Ethnicity Studies; Political Sociology; Latin American Culture; US History
• Soggetto geografico: Puerto Rico Race relations History 19th century; Puerto Rico Colonial influence
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Silencing Race
• ISBN: 1-283-73849-X; 1-137-26322-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826487603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II