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Silencing Race

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Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico

ISBN: 1137263210
ISBN 13: 9781137263216
Autor: Rodríguez-Silva, I
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: viii, 320 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.10.2012
Auflage: 1/2012
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

First manuscript-length study to take silencing practices in race-making as an object of historical analysis. While most literature about blackness and racial formation in Latin America speak of erasures and silences only few have sought to take silencing seriouslyPlaces Puerto Rico within a wider historical and geographical context: the island’s case illustrates that silences are crucial guarantors of persistent myths of racial democracy in Latin America, the Caribbean, and among the growing Latin American diasporas in the U.S., discouraging political mobilization around issues of racial justice and undermining the important work of anti-racist organizationsRange of methodologies and sources that will attract a wide scholarly audienceSuitable for course adoption in the inter/multi-disciplinary fields of Caribbean and Latin American Studies, History, Latino Studies, American Studies, American Ethnic Studies, African Diaspora and in classes on topics such as labor history, nationalisms, racial identity formation, and slavery and emancipation

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Beschreibung

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.

Autorenporträt

Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva is an assistant professor of Latin American and Caribbean History at the University of Washington.

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