Silencing Race provides a historical analysis of the construction of silences surrounding issues of racial inequality, violence, and discrimination in Puerto Rico. Examining the ongoing racialization of Puerto Rican workers, it explores the 'class-making' of race.
Format: Paperback / softback
CONTRIBUTORS: I. Rodríguez-Silva
EAN: 9781349442478
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 510 g
HEIGHT: 235 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED: 2012-10-19
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GENRE: HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
WIDTH: 155 cm
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Book Themes:
Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Cultural studies, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Sociology, Social welfare and social services, Politics and government, Regional, state and other local government, History of the Americas
Winner of the 2014 Puerto Rican Studies Association's Frank Bonilla Book Award
"From former slaves' murmurs of discomfiture to the loquacious assertions of powerful men, this book listens hard to conversations about race. It resonates in multiple registers, forcing readers to pay attention not just to what people say, but to what they don't say. Rodriguez-Silva has transformed Puerto Rican history." - Alejandra Bronfman, University of British Columbia
"Ileana Rodríguez-Silva has produced a masterful account of racial formation in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Puerto Rico and its connections with slavery, emancipation, gender, and colonialism. Her multilayered analysis of the 'silences' surrounding everyday forms of racialization is original, fascinating, and persuasive." - Carlos Aguirre, University of Oregon
Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva is an assistant professor of Latin American and Caribbean History at the University of Washington.
