{"product_id":"scripts-of-blackness-race-cultural-nationalism-and-u-s-colonialism-in-puerto-rico-hardback-9780252038907","title":"Scripts of Blackness; Race, Cultural Nationalism, and U.S. Colonialism in Puerto Rico (Hardback) 9780252038907","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eScripts of Blackness\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRace, Cultural Nationalism, and U.S. Colonialism in Puerto Rico\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eIsar P Godreau (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780252038907\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 7 January 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e328 pages, 38 black and white photographs, 1 chart, 3 tables\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 2.8 cm, 0.626 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eCo-winner of the Frank Bonilla Book Award, Puerto Rican Studies Association, 2016.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eScripts of Blackness\u003c\/i\u003e exposes the complexities derived from the intersections of race, class, and colonialism. This book can be used as a reference or complementary text for both undergraduate- and graduate-level courses. It is a valuable contribution to American, Caribbean, Latino, and Latin American studies, and other related fields.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Journal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"A strong contribution to the burgeoning literatures on Puerto Rico, race, and nationalism. Highly recommended.\"--\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eScripts of Blackness: Race, Cultural Nationalism, and U.S. Colonialism in Puerto Rico\u003c\/i\u003e is a testimony to the importance for anthropology of the \u003ci\u003elongue durÉe\u003c\/i\u003e in one place. . . . Godreau's writing flows easily, as she details each thread of her complicated analysis in terms that make the book accessible and of interest to a wide audience.\"--\u003ci\u003eJournal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e \"An invaluable contribution to historical and anthropological understandings of race on the island. . . . A much anticipated resource for Puerto Rican studies scholars, as well as for anthropologists writing on race and nationalism more broadly.\"--Arlene DÁvila, author of \u003ci\u003eCulture Works: Space, Value, and Mobility Across the Neoliberal Americas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThe geopolitical influence of the United States informs the processes of racialization in Puerto Rico, including the construction of black places. In \u003cu\u003eScripts of Blackness\u003c\/u\u003e, Isar P. Godreau explores how Puerto Rican national discourses about race--created to overcome U.S. colonial power--simultaneously privilege whiteness, typecast blackness, and silence charges of racism.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Based on an ethnographic study of the barrio of San Antón in the city of Ponce, \u003cu\u003eScripts of Blackness\u003c\/u\u003e 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 Rico, the favoring of a Spanish colonial whiteness (under a hispanophile discourse), and the insistence on a harmonious race mixture as discourses that thrive on a presumed contrast with the United States that also characterize Puerto Rico as morally superior. In so doing, she outlines the debates, social hierarchies, and colonial discourses that inform the racialization of San Antón and its residents as black.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Mining ethnographic materials and anthropological and historical research, \u003cu\u003eScripts of Blackness\u003c\/u\u003e provides powerful insights into the critical political, economic, and historical context behind the strategic deployment of \u003cu\u003eblackness\u003c\/u\u003e, \u003cu\u003ewhiteness\u003c\/u\u003e, and \u003cu\u003eracial mixture\u003c\/u\u003e.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52520662565144,"sku":"9780252038907","price":96.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/scripts-of-blackness-race-cultural-nationalism-and-u-s-colonialism-in-puerto-rico-hardback-9780252038907","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}