Scripts of Blackness: Race, Cultural Nationalism, and U.S. Colonialism in Puerto Rico (Global Studies of the United States) - Tapa blanda

Godreau, Isar P

 
9780252080456: Scripts of Blackness: Race, Cultural Nationalism, and U.S. Colonialism in Puerto Rico (Global Studies of the United States)
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ISBN 10: 0252080459 ISBN 13: 9780252080456
Editorial: University of Illinois Press, 2015

Sinopsis

The geopolitical influence of the United States informs the processes of racialization in Puerto Rico, including the construction of black places. In Scripts of Blackness, Isar P. Godreau explores how Puerto Rican national discourses about race--created to overcome U.S. colonial power--simultaneously privilege whiteness, typecast blackness, and silence charges of racism.
 
Based on an ethnographic study of the barrio of San Antón in the city of Ponce, Scripts of Blackness examines institutional and local representations of blackness as developing from a power-laden process that is inherently selective and political, not neutral or natural. Godreau traces the presumed benevolence or triviality of slavery in Puerto Rico, the favoring of a Spanish colonial whiteness (under a hispanophile discourse), and the insistence on a harmonious race mixture as discourses that thrive on a presumed contrast with the United States that also characterize Puerto Rico as morally superior. In so doing, she outlines the debates, social hierarchies, and colonial discourses that inform the racialization of San Antón and its residents as black.
 
Mining ethnographic materials and anthropological and historical research, Scripts of Blackness provides powerful insights into the critical political, economic, and historical context behind the strategic deployment of blackness, whiteness, and racial mixture.

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Isar P. Godreau is a researcher at and former director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey.

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Editorial
University of Illinois Press
Año de publicación
2015
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0252080459
ISBN 13 
9780252080456
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Número de páginas
328
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