Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137263216)

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.

Author: I. Rodr?uez-Silva
ISBN-10: 1137263210
ISBN-13: 9781137263216
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 10/19/2012
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2013