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Carlos Alamo-Pastrana

Seams of Empire

Race and Radicalism in Puerto Rico and the United States. Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 232 Seiten
ISBN 081306256X
EAN 9780813062563
Veröffentlicht Mai 2016
Verlag/Hersteller University Press of Florida
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Beschreibung

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.

Portrait

Carlos Alamo-Pastrana is associate professor of sociology and Latin American and Latina/o studies at Vassar College, USA.