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Author Godreau, Isar (Isar P.), author.

Title Scripts of blackness : race, cultural nationalism, and U.S. colonialism in Puerto Rico / Isar P. Godreau
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2015
©2015

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Description 1 online resource
Series Global studies of the United States
Global studies of the United States.
Contents Place, race, and the housing debate -- Slavery and the politics of erasure -- Unfolkloric slavery : alternative histories of San Antón -- Hispanophile zones of whiteness -- His-panic/my panic : hispanophobia and the reviled whiteness of Spain -- Flowing through my veins : populism and the hierarchies of race mixture -- Irresolute blackness : struggles and maneuvers over the representation of community
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Race -- Political aspects -- Puerto Rico
Nationalism -- Puerto Rico
Geopolitics -- Puerto Rico
Geopolitics -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
HISTORY -- Caribbean & West Indies -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Colonial influence
Geopolitics
International relations
Nationalism
Race -- Political aspects
Race relations
SUBJECT Puerto Rico -- Race relations
Puerto Rico -- Colonial influence
San Antón (Ponce, P.R.) -- Race relations
Ponce (P.R.) -- Race relations
United States -- Relations -- Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico -- Relations -- United States
Subject Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico -- Ponce
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780252096860
025209686X