Carlos Alamo-Pastrana
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780813062563
- eISBN:
- 9780813051598
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813062563.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This introduction examines the use of the comparative method as an analytic tool for understanding race in Puerto Rico and the United States. Given the limited understandings of race through the ...
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This introduction examines the use of the comparative method as an analytic tool for understanding race in Puerto Rico and the United States. Given the limited understandings of race through the silencing of marginalized voices, power dynamics, and social movements, this chapter instead proposes racial imbrication as an alternative lens for understanding race. Racial imbrication permits a relational analysis of different units that also considers the spaces most likely to be ignored or overlooked in traditional comparative analyses. The final third of the chapter offers a brief overview of each chapter and the aims of the book.Less
This introduction examines the use of the comparative method as an analytic tool for understanding race in Puerto Rico and the United States. Given the limited understandings of race through the silencing of marginalized voices, power dynamics, and social movements, this chapter instead proposes racial imbrication as an alternative lens for understanding race. Racial imbrication permits a relational analysis of different units that also considers the spaces most likely to be ignored or overlooked in traditional comparative analyses. The final third of the chapter offers a brief overview of each chapter and the aims of the book.
Carlos Alamo-Pastrana
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780813062563
- eISBN:
- 9780813051598
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813062563.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
Seams of Empire tells the story of journalists, writers, and activists who challenged and re-imagined colonial and racial arrangements in Puerto Rico and the United States from 1940 to 1972. In ...
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Seams of Empire tells the story of journalists, writers, and activists who challenged and re-imagined colonial and racial arrangements in Puerto Rico and the United States from 1940 to 1972. In particular, the book argues for a move beyond comparison as a methodological lens for understanding race in Puerto Rico and the United States. In its place, the book proposes racial imbrication, or the structured and relational ideas about race that also highlight hidden relations of power, as an alternative analytic lens. Using racial imbrication, Alamo Pastrana argues that responses to institutionalized racism and colonialism produced an oft-overlooked archive of texts created by African American and Puerto Rican writers and activists that complicate traditional readings of race in both national spaces. Analyses of this overlooked archive demonstrate the deep symbolic and material connections between marginalized subjects, social movements, and racial arrangements in Puerto Rico and the United States.Less
Seams of Empire tells the story of journalists, writers, and activists who challenged and re-imagined colonial and racial arrangements in Puerto Rico and the United States from 1940 to 1972. In particular, the book argues for a move beyond comparison as a methodological lens for understanding race in Puerto Rico and the United States. In its place, the book proposes racial imbrication, or the structured and relational ideas about race that also highlight hidden relations of power, as an alternative analytic lens. Using racial imbrication, Alamo Pastrana argues that responses to institutionalized racism and colonialism produced an oft-overlooked archive of texts created by African American and Puerto Rican writers and activists that complicate traditional readings of race in both national spaces. Analyses of this overlooked archive demonstrate the deep symbolic and material connections between marginalized subjects, social movements, and racial arrangements in Puerto Rico and the United States.
Carlos Alamo-Pastrana
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780813062563
- eISBN:
- 9780813051598
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813062563.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This final chapter provides a review of the book and what larger conclusions can be drawn from the preceding chapters and racial imbrication as a methodological concept. In particular, the conclusion ...
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This final chapter provides a review of the book and what larger conclusions can be drawn from the preceding chapters and racial imbrication as a methodological concept. In particular, the conclusion considers the longer history of Puerto Rico in the Southern U.S. racial imaginary complicate recent studies that depict Latinidad as a new phenomenon in the region. Finally, the chapter also briefly ponders why race continues to matter in Puerto Rico for different state actors and activists given the failure of economic and colonial policies that have left the island facing one of its largest economic crises in history.Less
This final chapter provides a review of the book and what larger conclusions can be drawn from the preceding chapters and racial imbrication as a methodological concept. In particular, the conclusion considers the longer history of Puerto Rico in the Southern U.S. racial imaginary complicate recent studies that depict Latinidad as a new phenomenon in the region. Finally, the chapter also briefly ponders why race continues to matter in Puerto Rico for different state actors and activists given the failure of economic and colonial policies that have left the island facing one of its largest economic crises in history.
