Scripts of Blackness: Race, Cultural Nationalism, and U.S. Colonialism in Puerto Rico

by Isar P Godreau

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252080459
• ISBN13: 9780252080456
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"