Scripts of Blackness : race, cultural nationalism, and U.S. colonialism in Puerto Rico /

Scripts of Blackness : race, cultural nationalism, and U.S. colonialism in Puerto Rico /

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Author / Creator:	Godreau, Isar (Isar P.), author.
Imprint:	Urbana ; Chicago ; Springfield : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
Description:	xi, 303 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Global studies of the United States Global studies of the United States.
Subject:	Race -- Political aspects -- Puerto Rico. Nationalism -- Puerto Rico. Geopolitics -- Puerto Rico. Geopolitics -- United States. Colonial influence. Geopolitics. International relations. Nationalism. Race -- Political aspects. Race relations. 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. Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico -- Ponce. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10132291

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ISBN:	9780252038907 0252038908 9780252080456 0252080459 9780252096860
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"--

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