Silencing Race Disentangling Blackness,

In their quest for greater political participation within shifting imperial fieldsfrom Spanish (1850s1898) to U.S. rule (1898-)Puerto Ricans struggled to shape and contain conversations about race. In so doing, they crafted, negotiated, and imposed on others multiple forms of silences while reproducing the idea of a unified, racially mixed, harmonious nation. Hence, both upper and working classes participated, although with different agendas, in the construction of a wide array of silences that together have prevented serious debate about racialized domination. This book explores the ongoing constant racialization of Puerto Rican workers to explore the 'class-making' of race.

Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva is an assistant professor of Latin American and Caribbean History at the University of Washington. She is the author of 'Libertos and Libertas in the Construction of the Free Worker in Post Emancipation Puerto Rico' in Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World, Pamela Scully and Diana Paton, eds. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005), 199-232.

Racial (Dis)Harmony in Puerto Rico
PART I
Slavery and the Multi-Racial-Racially Mixed Laboring Classes
Becoming a Free Worker in Post-Emancipation Puerto Rico
Liberal Elites' Writings: The Racial Dissection of the Puerto Rican Specimen
Race and Social Struggles in the Restructuring of Late-Nineteenth Century Ponce
PART II
Changing Empires
US Rule and the Volatile Topic of Race in the Public Political Sphere
Racial Silencing and the Organizing of Puerto Rican Labor
Deflecting Puerto Rico's Blackness
The Heavy Weight of Silence

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Silencing Race Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico

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