Scripts of Blackness – Race, Cultural Nationalism, and U.S. Colonialism in Puer…

Scripts of Blackness – Race, Cultural Nationalism, and U.S. Colonialism in Puer…

Scripts of BlacknessRace, Cultural Nationalism, and U.S. Colonialism in Puerto Rico\nAuthor(s): Isar P Godreau\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252038907, 978-0252038907\nSynopsis\nThe 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 [url] colonial power--simultaneously privilege whiteness, typecast blackness, and silence charges of racism.\n Based on an ethnographic study of the barrio of San Antn in the city of Ponce, Scripts of Blackness examines institutional and local representations of blackness as developing from a power-laden process that is inherently selective and political, not neutral or natural. Godreau traces the presumed benevolence or triviality of slavery in Puerto .

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