Scripts of Blackness : race, cultural nationalism, and U.S. colonialism in Puerto Rico /

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, simultaneousl...

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Main Author: Godreau, Isar (Isar P.) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
Series:Global studies of the United States.
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