ISBN:
9780252096860
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Global studies of the United States
Series Statement:
Global Studies of the United States Ser
Parallel Title:
Print version Scripts of blackness
DDC:
305.80097295
Keywords:
Geopolitics
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Geopolitics
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Nationalism
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Race Political aspects
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Ponce (P.R.) ; Race relations
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Puerto Rico ; Colonial influence
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Puerto Rico ; Race relations
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Race ; Political aspects ; Puerto Rico
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San Antón (Ponce, P.R.) ; Race relations
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Electronic books
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Ponce (P.R.) Race relations
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Puerto Rico Race relations
;
Puerto Rico Colonial influence
;
United States Relations
;
Puerto Rico Relations
;
San Antón (Ponce, P.R.) Race relations
Abstract:
"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"--
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover""; ""Title page""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Place, Race, and the Housing Debate""; ""Part I. Benevolent Slavery: Docile Slaves or Free People of Color?""; ""2. Slavery and the Politics of Erasure""; ""3. Unfolkloric Slavery: Alternative Histories of San Antón""; ""Part II. Hispanicity: Shades of ""Whiteness"" between Empires""; ""4. Hispanophile Zones of Whiteness""; ""5. His-Panic / My Panic: Hispanophobia and the Reviles Whiteness of Spain""; ""Part III. Race Mixutre: In the Blood or in the Making""
Description / Table of Contents:
""6. Flowing through My Veins: Populism and the Hierarchies of Race Mixture""""7. Irresolute Blackness: Struggles and Maneuvers over the Representation of Community""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index""
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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