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Seams of Empire - Race and Radicalism in Puerto Rico and the United States (Paperback)
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Seams of Empire - Race and Radicalism in Puerto Rico and the United States (Paperback)
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A truly excellent contribution that unearths new and largely
unknown evidence about relationships between Puerto Ricans and
African-Americans and white Americans in the continental United
States and Puerto Rico. Alamo-Pastrana revises how race is to be
studied and understood across national, cultural, colonial, and
hierarchical cultural relations."-Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores, author
of Locked In, Locked Out: Gated Communities in a Puerto Rican City
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 United States. 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.
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