Seams of Empire
Race and Radicalism in Puerto Rico and the United States
Seiten
2016
University Press of Florida (Verlag)
978-0-8130-6256-3 (ISBN)
University Press of Florida (Verlag)
978-0-8130-6256-3 (ISBN)
Puerto Rico’s colonial relationship with the United States and its history of intermixture of native, African, and Spanish inhabitants has prompted inconsistent narratives about race and power in the colonial territory. Departing from these accounts, early twentieth-century writers, journalists, and activists scrutinized both Puerto Rico’s and the United States’s institutionalized racism and colonialism in an attempt to spur reform, leaving an archive of oft-overlooked political writings.
In Seams of Empire, Carlos Alamo-Pastrana uses racial imbrication as a framework for reading this archive of little-known Puerto Rican, African American, and white American radicals and progressives, both on the island and the continental U.S. By addressing the concealed power relations responsible for national, gendered, and class differences, this method of textual analysis reveals key symbolic and material connections between marginalized groups in both national spaces and traces the complexity of race, racism, and conflict on the edges of empire.
In Seams of Empire, Carlos Alamo-Pastrana uses racial imbrication as a framework for reading this archive of little-known Puerto Rican, African American, and white American radicals and progressives, both on the island and the continental U.S. By addressing the concealed power relations responsible for national, gendered, and class differences, this method of textual analysis reveals key symbolic and material connections between marginalized groups in both national spaces and traces the complexity of race, racism, and conflict on the edges of empire.
Carlos Alamo-Pastrana is associate professor of sociology and Latin American and Latina/o studies at Vassar College, USA.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.5.2016 |
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Zusatzinfo | 11 black & white photographs |
Verlagsort | Florida |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 445 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8130-6256-X / 081306256X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8130-6256-3 / 9780813062563 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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